For years I bought the big family sized frozen lasagna to bake at home when the family requested lasagna. Before I learned to make my own, I thought that homemade lasagna was something complicated and probably had to many instructions to even bother trying. Once I made homemade lasagna for the first time, I have been hooked on making it myself and probably won’t ever buy it frozen again.
Tonight I made homemade lasagna featuring a couple products from one of my favorite stores, Smart & Final. This is one of those stores that you can buy things in bulk or large sizes that I enjoy shopping at since I have a family of six. I have always made my lasagna with ground beef and of course pasta sauce and decided to use a couple of the First Street products in my lasagna recipe you will find below.
Smart & Final carries the First Street Ground Beef which happens to be on sale next week starting July 18th for only $1.99 per lb and sold in a 5 lb. chub for $9.95. Since I use quite a bit of sauce when I make my lasagna, the 2lb jar of First Street Traditional Pasta Sauce was perfect for my recipe with a little to spare.
Want to make your own homemade lasagna instead of buying frozen too? Check out my Homemade Lasagna below:
Homemade Lasagna Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 pound First Street Ground Beef
- 3 1/2 cups First Street Traditional Pasta Sauce
- 2 cups Ricotta Cheese
- 9-12 lasagna noodles
- 1/4 cup spinach – drained
- 2 cups shredded cheese mix (Mozzarella, Parmesan, Romano)
- 1 tsp garlic pepper
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 egg
Directions:
Step One: Cook lasagna noodles according to package. Once done, drain with cold water and set aside.
Step Two: While the noodles are cooking, use a skillet and add ground beef, garlic powder and onion powder. Mix meat and seasonings and cook until meat is done and no longer pink and drain excess fat.
Step Three: Add 2 cups of the First Street Traditional Pasta Sauce in skillet and stir until blended.
Step Four: Next make cheese mixture by combining spinach, Ricotta cheese, 1 cup of shredded cheese and egg in a bowl. Stir to blend well.
Step Five: In a 11×7 or 13×9 baking dish, add 1/2 cup of the First Street Traditional Pasta Sauce to bottom of dish and spread to cover bottom of dish with sauce. Then add 3 Lasagna noodles side by side. Add layer of beef mixture. Then add layer of cheese mixture.
Step Six: Repeat process above adding another layer of noodles, remaining meat mixture and then cheese mixture.
Step Seven: Add one more layer of noodles and top with 1 cup of the pasta sauce. Use spatula and spread sauce evenly over top layer.
Step Eight: Cover dish with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Step Nine: Remove lasagna from oven and top with remaining 1 cup of shredded cheese. Place dish back in oven uncovered and bake an additional 15-20 minutes until cheese is melted.
Step Ten: Remove from oven and let lasagna cool for at least 10 minutes.
Step Eleven: Slice, serve and enjoy!
Not only is this lasagna delicious, it is a great way to get your family to eat their spinach!
If you have a Smart & Final near, be sure to advantage of their weekly sales. Next week starting on July 18th through the 25th, you will find Knudsen Sour Cream on sale along with Kraft American Singles, Yuban Coffee, Ritz Crackers, Chips Ahoy, Kraft Mac & Cheese, the First Street Ground beef like I mentioned previously and more!
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I haven’t made homemade lasagna in so long! Yours looks absolutely delicious!
Nice work! I just made homemade lasagna the other night! =)
This looks yummy I love lasagna!
Add me to the list of those that hasn’t made lasagna lately! I love the stuff though and this is the inspiration I need to add it to the menu again!
Yum!!
Ricotta makes all the difference, always a must for my Lasagna’s!
Yum! I’m going to make this but use zucchini as the noodles.
Delicious! Now I need to make lasagna tomorrow.
Now that looks delicious Interesting that you added spinach I would of loved to try that
I love First Street products! &That looks SO good!
I’ve never made homemade lasagna. I’ll have to try it since you made it look soooo easy!
That looks like the recipe I use, pretty simple and easy for a great homemade meal!
Looks delicious to me! Thanks for sharing!
Looks super yummy!
Looks insanely delicious! YUM 🙂
this looks awesome! I love hiding spinach in my recipes
I haven’t made lasagna in forever…thanks for the recipe!
Thanks for a fab recipe and it looks so delicious!
I love lasagna. 🙂
Looks yummy!! Even though I haven’t been keeping heavy italian food down with the pregnancy. I sooo want to try this!
Yum, I love making a big pan of lasagna and having LOTS left over (so I don’t have to cook for a few days).
My wife makes fabulous lasagna, but she always likes to try different recipes, so I’ll share this one with her. Looks and sounds really tasty!
Thanks,
Ray
Now I am sufficienly hungry!
I haven’t made lasagna in forever. You’ve inspired me!
I love lasagna, but it’s something I haven’t made in ages. I’m going to try your recipe, because I love meat in my lasagna and my hubby loves spinach in his… this should make both of us happy! 🙂
there are two things that you could add to your recipe that you should try.
add some fental seeds the the sauce and cook to get the lasagna flavor.
and add catage cheese to the mixture of cheese. Jim
How much spinach does this take? It just says 1/4 spinach. Would love to make this.
I am sorry about that. I used 1/4 cup. I just updated the recipe. Thanks for catching that.
I have made many recipes of lasagna and find this one extra special. I also start my seasonings with a packet of Spice Specialties Italian spices. It really gives the dish all the original Italian flavor my mom used to have in her dish.
Oh man this look so yummy!!
This looks like a fantastic idea for tonight’s dinner. Simple and “sneaky-sneaky”… LOVE it!
I’m craving some lasagna, thanks for the recipe.