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Are you looking for great ideas for this week’s dinners? Try a meat lasagna one night. This delicious dish of Italy is a great meal when combined with a lovely salad and some tasty bread.

Meat lasagna is a combination of good pasta sauce, ground beef, mozzarella cheese, cottage or ricotta cheese and Italian spices. Each of the ingredients is layered in a pan and the lasagna is cooked until the cheese is melted and bubbly.

The difference in lasagna that makes it unique from other pasta dishes, is the fact that you don’t have to cook the pasta before baking. The lasagna noodles can simply be layered along with the wet ingredients. It may take a little longer to bake, but your family need never know that the pasta wasn’t cooked first.

An alternative meat lasagna uses chicken, Alfredo sauce and also has vegetables in the layers of the pan.

Another way you could do lasagna, is with a red or white sauce using vegetables as a substitute for the meat. You could use zucchini, carrots and spinach as your veggies. It is a much healthier and lower fat chose, but it still tastes fabulous.

If you are really in the mood for lasagna but are trying to behave your self by watching those carbohydrates, there is an alternative. Just try your family recipe using steamed cabbage leaves as a substitute for lasagna noodles. It’s flavor is very similar to the traditional recipe and it could just trick those taste buds.

In order to cook lasagna, you will need a deep dish casserole dish that is at least three inches deep. Due to the shape of the noodles, square or rectangular pans work best.

If you are lacking the deep dish casserole dish, you should consider getting an aluminum pan that is disposable. You can find them at any of the grocery stores in your area.They also make it so that you can freeze some ahead of time for a dinner next week. Plus, they do make clean-up time a lot easier.

When someone asks me what can I cook with the ingredients I have, I tell them Meat Lasagna! Quick and easy to make with items that I have in my pantry all the time!