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Okay, let me start off by saying it tastes way better than it looks... :'D My pictures were pretty poor this time around, but the meal was delicious, so I thought I'd share it anyways.
This was my first time attempting lasagna. There were many oops made a long the way (the noodles stuck together while boiling T_T ) -- but, the recipe is pretty solid.
It'll taste yummy, but it'll be up to your skills on how pretty you can make it!
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TURKEY & VEGETABLE LASAGNA
INGREDIENTS
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- salt
- pepper
- oregano
- olive oil
- 1 lb of ground turkey
- 1 onion
- 3-4 zucchini
- 1 box of lasagna noodles (i used whole grain :0)
- 1 can of diced tomatoes
- 1 container of ricotta cheese
- 1 jar of pasta sauce
- 1/2 lb mushrooms
- 1 tablespoon of minced/crushed garlic
- 2 cups of mozzarella cheese (i used rice mozzarella cheese :0)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese
OPTIONAL: green onions to garnish
OTHER THINGS YOU NEED!
- baking dish. 9 x 4" pan works.
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not as pretty QQ
Now that you've got your ingredients...
ARE YOU READY? Let's get cooking :D GL HF GG!
PROCEDURE
PREP TIME: ~20mins
COOK TIME: ~50mins
- Boil your pasta. Make sure to stir the lasagna pieces otherwise they will stick together
 Don't forget to salt the water! Remove pasta when done! (should take between 4min - 6mins; but read the instructions on your box)
- Pre-heat your oven to 375 º F or ~190 º C
- Dice your zucchini, mushrooms and onions.
- In a hot pan with a little olive oil, sautee your diced vegetables. Season with salt and pepper Reduce the heat and let them "sweat" (cook on maybe medium heat and cook until you see a lot of water coming out)
- Remove your vegetables and set aside for later.
- Add a little bit more oil to the pan and add in the turkey.
- Add your minced garlic to the turkey. season with salt and pepper. With a fork, separate the turkey into tiny chunks. Add in your 1 can of tomatoes to cook with the turkey.
- Let turkey cook until brown! Then remove from heat and set aside.
- In a bowl, combine a beaten egg and your ricotta cheese. Add 1/4 of your parmesan cheese and your mozzarella cheese. Mix thoroughly.
- In your baking dish, begin to line up your lasagna pieces. They'll prob overlap.
- Put some of your turkey/vegetable mixture on top of the lasagna pieces.
- put a few spoonfuls of your pasta sauce to coat the turkey vegetable mixture.
- Place more lasagna pieces on top of your veg/turkey mixture.
- Spread the cheese mixture on the lasagna pieces. Then place more lasagna pieces ontop. Repeat this order (veg/turkey mix -> cheese -> veg/turkey mix -> cheese) until you run out of lasagna.
- With your remaining pasta sauce, cover your entire lasagna! Then dump the rest of your cheese.
- HOORAY YOU'RE ALMOST DONE. Take this time to celebrate because you just worked your butt off for this... but it's not over yet.
- Place your lasagna in the oven. Let it bake for about 30 mins.
- Remove your lasagna, wait about 10mins and then dig in!!
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What it looks like before it goes in the oven! I took this with my phone ): super bad quality
This lasagna makes about like 6-8 servings.
YAY THAT WAS A LOT OF WORK ): BUT IT'S WORTH IT! I promise.
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i only clicked because I saw porn. but, I might actually make something like this after christmas. looks good 
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Damn, that looks good. I may have to make this over the break
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Food food food!
those look delicious. Can you share more recipes?
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Oh gosh it looks good. Lasagna is one of my favorite foods ever. I never had it with Turkey though! I think I need to try this.
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how have i missed all your blogs....my goodness.
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You must be rich.
@.@ WHOLE FOODS!
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Are you self-taught? You're doing good either way, like your blogs.
Btw, my friend loves Trader Joe's, can you explain why they good?
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OMG thanks for the recipe , I am going to try making this one of this days
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On December 19 2011 15:35 iSometric wrote:
You must be rich.
@.@ WHOLE FOODS!
D: I typically shop at Trader Joe's which is like a lot cheaper, but I didn't think Trader Joe's had the whole grain lasagna noodles... So I just went to Whole Foods instead.
Total cost for the lasagna stuff was around ~$27 USD... but for like 6 servings, that's not too shabby!
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On December 19 2011 15:48 discodancer wrote:
Are you self-taught? You're doing good either way, like your blogs.
Btw, my friend loves Trader Joe's, can you explain why they good?
Yeah, I'm self-taught. I thought about going to culinary school after high school, but I decided against it and I went to business school. :0
Trader Joe's is just like a regular grocery store that sells mostly Trader Joe's branded items. It's usually A LOT cheaper than what you'd find at other grocery stores.
But the problem is you won't really find a variety of things like at regular grocery stores. They just have a lot of staple goods like packaged meats, bread, vegetables, canned goods, etc.
Like that Crushed Garlic there is about $1.99 ... Whole Foods has it for like $3.50 T_T;
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its 11:50pm over here. Its bloody cold, and there were 2 threads on glorious food.
Im hungry T.T
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omg looks lovely lol
Would lvoe that now!!!
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Yay! I always love to cook a huge amount of Lasagna and then eat it over the course of several days <3
Looks pretty good, I'd say that it still qualifies as food porn as I'm hungry now!
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This food looks unhealthy...
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On December 20 2011 03:57 ffswowsucks wrote:
This food looks unhealthy...
The worst thing in this meal is the Ricotta cheese. I really wanted to substitute soy ricotta cheese instead, but I couldn't find any. u_u
:\ But realistically, this lasagna is pretty damn healthy relative to other lasagna.
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omnomnomnomnom, so delicious!
Thanks for blogging this, made me decide to have Lasagna for dinner, even if I probably changed every part of the recipe that could possibly be changed 
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On December 20 2011 05:04 kierpanda wrote:The worst thing in this meal is the Ricotta cheese. I really wanted to substitute soy ricotta cheese instead, but I couldn't find any. u_u :\ But realistically, this lasagna is pretty damn healthy relative to other lasagna.
Lol, guy doesn't know what he's talking about. It's goddamn TURKEY too. People always find a way to bitch and moan about something.
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On December 20 2011 05:47 iaretehnoob wrote:omnomnomnomnom, so delicious! Thanks for blogging this, made me decide to have Lasagna for dinner, even if I probably changed every part of the recipe that could possibly be changed
Om nom nom nom :D
Is that ret's stream in the background?
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