One-Pot Lasagna

I thought I perfected my lasagne recipe. I had it just the way I like it, extra cheesy with a bit of spice BUTTTT I hated having to boil the pasta first and then do the layering process. You’re hands get all dirty from the moisture from the pasta and spreading the cheese. I hate making lasagne but I love eating it so when I saw a recipe for one-pot lasagna I jumped right on it. I mean fewer steps, less clean-up…what more do you need. Keep on reading to see how it went.

iNGREDIENTS

For the lasagna

• olive oil
• white onion
• garlic
• tomato paste
• plum tomatoes
• vegetable broth
• ground beef
• dry red wine
• oregano
• dried basil
• black pepper
• salt
• lasagna sheets
• mozzarella cheese

For the cheese mixture

• ricotta cheese
• parmesan cheese
• dried rosemary
• olive oil

Special Equipment

You are going to need a cast-iron skillet for this recipe. I got mine on amazon. Let me tell you this thing was made to last. I lifted it and I immediately felt one of those cartoon characters whose hands literally fall through the floor after they lift a heavy sword.

What went wrong

If you watch the video below, you can see my oh no moment. When I went to lay down the first layer of lasagne sheets, the sauce went everywhere. My poor clean stove. Even as I was doing it I was convinced that I was either doing it wrong or something was wrong with this recipe.

My next problem was that the lasagne sheets were rectangular and the skillet was a circle. I don’t know if I skipped a step in pre-school but something was not adding up. I felt like there was so much room in the skillet where the pasta would not touch. What I did to try and fix this was interchanging which way I laid the pasta sheets on each layer.

I have never made lasagne without cooking my pasta first so I was concerned that the pasta wouldn’t be cooked all the way through but I was wrong. The pasta was nice and al dente. Perfection.

Final Thoughts

Yall I know I listed a lot of issues above but let me end this by saying that this lasagne, this lasagne right here was bomb af. After I was done, I was like I am never making lasagne like this again, it’s not worth it to have less clean up. But from the time I tasted the lasagne I was immediately transformed to heaven. I swear I say some old Italian nonna greeting me at the pearly white gates. This recipe deserves a 5 out of 5. Matter of fact this is right up there with the pub burgers. I ate some for lunch today and I want more now. This one-pot lasagna was THAT good.