Meat sauce: Brown 1 lb. ground beef, stir in 2 (8 oz.)cans tomato sauce, 1 can water, and 1 pkg. spaghetti seasoning.
Cheese filling: Mix together with spoon 1 lg. carton small curd cottage cheese, 1 T. parsley, and 1 lb. grated mozzarella cheese.
In a large baking dish, layer meat sauce, uncooked lasagna noodles and cheese filling in that order. Repeat layers, ending with meat sauce (7 layers total). Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake, covered, at 350 for 45-60 min.
If you want to replace the noodles with zucchini, here are some tips:
* Slice zucchini quite thin lengthwise with a mandoline.
* Set slices on paper towels, sprinkle them with salt, then cover with another paper towel. Let sit for 15 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. This gets rid of a lot of the moisture, since zucchini is 95% water.
* When preparing your meat sauce, make it as thick as possible. It will get more liquidy as it cooks. (This is the opposite of regular lasagna, where the noodles soak up liquid as it cooks.)
24 oz cottage cheese
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