Is it just me, or does anyone else struggle with finding a great recipe online that you can’t wait to try, but then when you actually click on it, you have to scroll through a bunch of meaningless information first? I don’t want that to happen here. So, to get to the point, here’s the recipe I have to share! Step-by-step pictures below. 🙂

Lazy Overnight Lasagna

Directions

1. Brown ground beef over medium-high heat in a large pan and drain off fat, if necessary. Add spaghetti sauce and water. Stir to combine.
2. In a medium bowl, combine ricotta cheese, chives, oregano, and egg. Mix well.
3. Assemble in an ungreased 9×13 pan. First, spread 1 ½ cups meat sauce in the bottom of your pan. 
4. Top with half of the lasagna noodles, then half the ricotta cheese mixture, and half of the mozzarella cheese.
5. Repeat with 1 ½ cups meat sauce, remaining noodles, ricotta cheese mixture, and mozzarella cheese. 
6. Top with remaining meat sauce, and sprinkle over the parmesan cheese. 
7. Cover and refrigerate overnight, or at least 8 hours.
8. Heat oven to 350℉, uncover, and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until bubbly.
9. Cover and let stand 15 minutes before serving.
10. Enjoy!

When Jacob and I got married at the end of 2020, instead of having guests sign a guest book at my bridal showers, they each brought a recipe for me to keep. This lasagna recipe is the one my mama chose to give me, so it is near and dear to my heart. I have an entire book loaded to the brim with recipes from those special women, and honestly, that book carried me through our first year of marriage. It certainly helped me conquer my first fall as an official farm wife feeding the harvest crew that sometimes consisted of six grown men! 

I started sharing those field meals on Instagram and Facebook last fall during harvest, and I was blown away by the interest my family and friends had in the recipes. That interest was huge in the drive of this blog’s development, by the way. 😉

For you visual learners, here are pictures to go with each step in the recipe!

• Brown ground beef over medium-high heat in a large pan and drain off fat, if necessary. Add spaghetti sauce and water. Stir to combine.

• In a medium bowl, combine ricotta cheese, chives, oregano, and egg. Mix well.

• Top with half of the lasagna noodles, then half the ricotta cheese mixture, and half of the mozzarella cheese.

• Repeat with 1 ½ cups meat sauce, remaining noodles, ricotta cheese mixture, and mozzarella cheese.

• Top with remaining meat sauce, and sprinkle over the parmesan cheese.

• Heat oven to 350℉, uncover, and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until bubbly.
• Cover and let stand 15 minutes before serving.
• Enjoy!

I like to serve a caesar salad kit or sautéed fresh green beans with this recipe, and once in a while a side of garlic cheesy bread too. 

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Rooted in ag and led by faith,

Ellyn