Italian Sausage Lasagna



I had some fantastic lasagna this weekend at my girl Linnea's wedding.   I decided to study some recipes online and tweek them to see if I couldn't make something similar.  Here's how it goes down....

Ingredients

Sauce:
2 lbs italian sausage
2 tablespoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons minced onions
1 15 ounce can of tomato sauce
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
*mushrooms optional--1 can or 1 small sliced crate

Cheese mixture:
1 egg
3 cups ricotta
2 tablespoons parsley flakes
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1/8 cup grated parmesan

1-2 cups mozzarella cheese
4-12 lasagna noodles

HOW TO:
Brown sausage.  Add in garlic and onion as you brown.  Drain if needed.   Add tomato sauce, red pepper flakes and mushrooms*.  Simmer for about 20 minutes while you cool lasagna noodles.

Beat egg and add in ricotta.  Stir together.  Add in parsley, garlic and parmesan.

When ready preheat oven to 350.  

Put about 1/3 of the sauce in the bottom of a pan.  Top this with noodles.  Use 1/2 of cheese mixture and spread over noodles.   Cover with another 1/3 of the meat sauce.  This time, sprinkle some mozzarella cheese over the meat sauce.   Layer noodles.  Spread rest of cheese mixture.  Spread rest of meat sauce and cover with mozzarella.

Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees.

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