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Creamy White Bacon and Sausage Lasagna

White lasagna will be your new favorite way to eat lasagna! White alfredo-like sauce, cottage cheese filling, italian sausage, noodles, mozzarella and parmesan and BACON!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course dinner, Main Course, supper
Cuisine American, Italian
Servings 8 servings
Calories 582 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 large sauce pan for white sauce
  • 1 casserole dish for lasagna
  • 2 med/large bowls for mixing
  • measuring utensils

Ingredients
  

Lasagna Ingredients

  • 1 lb. browned Italian sausage
  • 9 oven ready lasagna noodles or soak regular lasagna noodles in water for 5 min before assembling
  • 4-6 strips bacon cooked and crumbled or 1/2-3/4 c bacon bits
  • 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, for top of lasagna

White Sauce

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 medium sized onion diced small
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2-1/2 cups chicken broth reduced sodium
  • 1-1/2 cups half and half or half milk and half heavy cream
  • 1 cup chopped spinach optional
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tbsp minced garlic

Cheese Sauce

  • 15 oz cottage cheese I prefer 4%. Can use ricotta, too.
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/4 cup parmesan shredded cheese
  • 2 cups mozzarella shredded

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375 F and grease the bottom of your casserole dish. If you haven't already, brown your italian sausage and cook and crumble your bacon.

Make the white sauce

  • In a saucepan on medium-high heat, add the olive oil and butter, let it melt and then sauté the onions and garlic until softened. Next, whisk in the flour. Whisk for a few minutes until the flour mixture is well combined and golden. It may be kind of thick.
  • Next, add the chicken broth and the half and half. Whisk together and add the seasonings. Let this simmer and get a thicker gravy-like consistency.
  • Once it is gravy-like, add the spinach. (spinach is optional). Set aside and remove from heat.

Make the Cheese Sauce

  • In a larger bowl, add the cottage cheese, egg and 2 cups of mozzarella and parmesan. Stir well with rubber spatula.

It's time to assemble the lasagna!

  • Add 1/2 cup white sauce to the bottom of your casserole dish. The dish needs to be large enough to snugly fit 3 lasagna noodles (about 9x13).
  • Next, add 3 oven-ready lasagna noodles. Then add 1/2 of the cottage cheese sauce, then add 1/2 of the Italian sausage, ladle 1/3 of the white sauce on top of that and sprinkle with a tbsp of bacon. Spread the mixtures evenly on the noodles.
  • Add 3 more lasagna noodles and add the remaining cottage cheese sauce and italian sausage. Ladle another 1/3 of the white sauce. Sprinkle another tbsp of bacon on the top.
  • Now, add the last 3 noodles, add the remaining white sauce, and top with 1 cup of mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle the remaining bacon on top of the cheese.

To bake

  • Cover the lasagna with foil and bake for about 45 minutes. Then remove the foil and let it brown for an additional 3-6 minutes. Let it cool a bit and then dig in!

Notes

Notes:
spinach is optional. Substitute Italian sausage with Italian flavored ground beef or 2 cups of shredded chicken. 
TIP: if you do not use oven ready noodles- you can soak your regular noodles in water for about 5 minutes and add to the casserole un-baked instead of having to boil noodles!
Nutrition information is a estimated guess. This will vary widely0 on ingredients used. 

Nutrition

Calories: 582kcalCarbohydrates: 34.8gProtein: 32.8gFat: 34.4gSaturated Fat: 16.6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 5.6gCholesterol: 116mgSodium: 700mgFiber: 2.4gSugar: 5.5g
Keyword alfredo, spinach, white sauce
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