I apologize for the sub-par picture. I never took a picture of this lasagna because I initially thought it had been a failure. I took this with my phone and then ate the lasagna and realized holy cow it was delicious. This recipe is going to seem kinda nuts, maybe. I promise it's worth the trouble. I'd recommend that you only make it if you enjoy leftovers or if you have lots of people eating with you.
Ingredients:
1 package lasagna noodles
1 15-oz package of ricotta cheese
1 cup parmesan cheese (grated)
1/2 cup mozarella cheese (grated)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 pound ground turkey/beef/chicken/human
1 packet of sauce mix
1 15-oz can tomato sauce
1/3 jar pre-made tomato sauce (jar kind)
4 mini sweet bell peppers
1/2 cup diced white onion
20? pepperonis (just buy a pack)
6-8 leaves of basil, julienned
Boil a (LARGE) pot of water for your noodles. Preheat the oven to 350. Dice your bell peppers, onions, and basil.
Prepare packaged tomato sauce exactly as is done in my spaghetti recipe.
Cook your noodles SUPER CAREFULLY! They will break and become inferior. Stir very lightly. Be nice!
In a medium bowl (RIP my medium bowl 2007-2009), combine ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, and oil. Mix them up really well, until it looks like one huge lump of unified cheese.
Coat a metal (foil?) pan with a little bit of Pam or Crisco or whatever you use.
Once your noodles and sauce are done, you are ready to build the lasagna.
First, layer the entire pan with lasagna noodles. Use about 1/2 of your meat sauce to cover this first layer. Next, create a single layer of pepperoni covering the sauce/noodle combo. For the next layer, use a rubber spatula to cover the lasagna with the cheese mixture. Do this like (ew!) you're frosting a cake. I know it's creepy.
Next, create another layer of lasagna noodles. Then use the remaining meat sauce to cover these noodles. On top of the sauce, scatter the basil, then the bell peppers and onions.
Finally, create one last layer of noodles. Use your tomato sauce (the one in the jar) to cover this layer and then if you have any parmesan cheese left over, lightly dust the top of the layer.
Cover with foil and cook for 30 minutes. Remove the foil, then cook 10 more minutes. You do this so the cheese basically doesn't catch on fire.
Now you have such amazing lasagna omg.
