lasagna for 10 or more people.

I am your nice average Jewish southern Irish English Scottish Italian girl. I have family recipes for truly amazing Italian but I have had to make them for special dietary needs. This is the decadent lasagna for an army my bastardized version.

MollieScarlotti @cook_2912455

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Ingredients

2 hours

15 servings

2 lbSweet and hot Italian sausage 1 pound hot 1 pound sweet
2 lblean ground beef or veal
4 largeonions diced
2 quarttomato sauce I recommend whole peeled and unseeded tomatoes as well as tomato paste 1 large can as well as diced tomatoes
2 boxlasagna noodles
4 lb6 cheese Italian shredded cheese
2bags of parmasean cheess3
1Red pepper flakes to taste as well as salt fresh basil oregano parsley sage and rosemary
6eggs
2 largeContainers of whole milk ricotta cheese this is a sinfully decadent recipe made to feed a lot of people
5 tbsphigh quality butter or clarified butter
4 tbspAll purpose flour
4 cupheavy cream
2 tspsea or kosher salt
1/2 tspnutmeg
2 largebags of shredded mozzarella cheese.
1 quartheavy whipping cream all the milk/ cream for this can come out of that quart

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Steps

2 hours

1

Boil lasagna noodles until they are almost done take them out a minute or two early so your pasta doesn't turn to mush from all the liquid.
2

The sauce is simple enough brown the meats with onions and garlic feel free to add mushrooms or sun dried tomatoes artichoke hearts etc
3

Drain grease from meat and pat with paper towels to get off extra grease onions should be translucent and garlic cloves softish
4

Combine meats and veggies and tomato paste sauce and diced and whole peeled and unseeded tomatoes
5

Cheese layer is special you must first make a basic bechamel sauce for that melt butter put in flour 4 cups heavy cream 2 teaspoons of kosher or sea salt and nutmeg. Also. You can add black pepper fresh ground to taste.
6

Combine ricotta eggs more heavy cream 1 package of 6 cheese Italian blend Italian herbs fresh basil 1 bag of parmesan cheese mix thoroughly
7

Combine bechamel sauce with ricotta cheese mix well until it's vs creamy dreamy and amazing. Please feel free to add sundries tomatoes etc I tend to love to experiment.
8

Layer noodles meat sauce and cheese layers until you run out of stuff completely.
9

On last layer cover with bag of mozzarella bag of 6 cheese Italian blend and a bag of parmesan.
10

Heat oven to around 375 cover within tinfoil and bake covered for about an hour keep a watch on it. When it's good and bubbly hot take off foil and melt cheese for approximately 10 minutes
11

This recipe makes enough to fill two giant deep tin catering pans like you would get at Costco it is made for feeding a lot of people.
12

Also please be aware this can be made vegetarian by using spinach zucchini and eggplant instead of meat.
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You can make this healthy by using skim milk instead of cream ground turkey and low sodium Italian sausage as well as no salt added tomatoes or even fresh tomatoes. It is a grand undertaking but well worth it. It is creamy and rich and utterly affordable if you have to take a dish to a potluck or just a nice gathering or team dinner.