Name: One Pot Lasagna
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 5
Ingredients: Filling:; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 garlic cloves , minced; 1 small onion , diced; 1 lb / 500g ground beef (mince); 24 oz / 700g (1 bottle) tomato passata (pureed tomato - Note 1), SEPARATED; 1/2 cup water; 1 beef bouillon stock cube (or substitute with chicken); 2 tbsp tomato paste; 1 tsp dried Italian herb mix (Note 2); 1/2 tsp salt; Black pepper; Sauce Flavourings:; 1 tsp dried Italian herb mix (Note 2); 1/2 tsp garlic powder (or 1 crushed garlic clove); 1/2 tsp salt; Black pepper; Lasagna:; 4 sheets dried lasagna; 1 to 2 cups grated mozzarella cheese; 1 tbsp parsley , finely chopped (optional)

1. Tomato passata is just plain pureed tomato and comes in tall bottles. It is widely used in Italian cooking and becoming more and more well known here in Australia and the UK. In Australia you will find it in the pasta section of supermarkets along with tomato paste and bottled pasta sauces and costs around the same as canned tomato. You can buy passata in Walmart in America.

You can make your own by pureeing canned crushed tomato. Or you can substitute with plain, unseasoned pureed tomato (comes in cans) BUT the flavour is more intense than passata because it has been cooked. So reduce the amount you use by 1/2 cup and add 1/2 cup of water to the pureed tomato (this will make it more like passata in flavour and consistency).

Do not substitute with ketchup or tomato sauce - both of these are seasoned and the flavour is not right for this dish!

2. If you don't have an Italian herb mix on hand, just substitute with a combination of dried parsley, oregano, thyme or basil (whatever you have).

3. The fry pan I used was 26cm / 10" in diameter and 6cm/2.4" deep.

4.Nutrition per serving assumes 1 cup of mozzarella cheese is used for the topping. The calories in this are less than traditional lasagna because a) there is no béchamel sauce; and b) there are only 2 layers of lasagna sheets.

One Pot Lasagna

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Filling

Sauce Flavourings

Lasagna

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