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Garlic White Lasagna
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Yield: 8 servings
Source: Southern Living's Christmas
Debra's Comments: Here is one of my husband's favorites. It is delicious! I found the recipe several years ago in Southern Living's Christmas 19xx cookbook. Can't
remember which one. It was a suggested Christmas Eve dish. I make it as written and serve with salad and a crusty bread. I'm sure you could
sub turkey sausage and maybe find a reduced alfredo sauce, but it's so good I just save up some flex points! Then again, if it's Christmas
there are no points - right?? It's a little time consuming to put it together, but it's worth the trouble. You can also make it the night before and refrigerate it, just let it
stand at room temperature for about 30 minutes before baking.
INGREDIENTS:
1-1/2 pd hot Italian sausage (in casing)
4 large cloves of garlic, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 (12 oz) jar roasted red pepper, drained and chopped
1/2 cup white wine (such as Chardonnay)
1 (10 oz) package frozen chopped spinach
1 (15 oz) carton ricotta cheese
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 (17 oz) jars of creamy Alfredo sauce (I use Five Brothers)
12 lasagna noodles, uncooked
2 (6 oz) packages of sliced mozzarella cheese
1 cup grated or finely shredded parmesan cheese
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Remove the casing from sausage, brown and crumble as it cooks. Drain, reserving 1 Tablespoon drippings.
- Cook the garlic and onion in the drippings until onion is tender. Add the sausage, chopped red pepper
and wine. Bring to a boil, reduce heat & simmer, uncovered 5 minutes or until most of the liquid
has evaporated.
- Cook spinach, directions from box, drain and squeeze between paper towels to remove the excess liquid.
- Combine the spinach, ricotta cheese, salt, pepper and egg.
- Spread 1 cup Alfredo sauce in a greased 13"x9"x2" baking dish. Top with 4 uncooked noodles, then top with half of the
spinach mixture and half of the sausage mixture.
- Place 4 slices of mozzarella over sausage mixture. Repeat the layers using 1 cup sauce, 4 noodles, remaining spinach
mixture and remaining sausage mixture. Top with remaining 4 noodles and mozzarella slices.
- Spread remaining Alfredo sauce over the mozzarella cheese.
- Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Cover and bake at 350 for 45 minutes, remove cover and bake another 15 minutes. Let this stand for 15 minutes before serving.
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