Gluten Free Beef Lasagna

The most popular meal home cooked meal is lasagna. This classic gluten free version with beef burger is sure to please. It makes excellent leftovers too!

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

40 minutes

Serves

10

Ingredients

  • Spaghetti sauce/ground beef mixture –
  • 3 – 24-ounce jars spaghetti sauce (Recommended Brand – Barilla Tomato & Basil)
  • 2 pounds ground beef
  • 2 yellow onions, diced
  • 2 teaspoons garlic, fresh minced
  • Noodles
  • 1 package gluten free lasagna noodles, (Recommended brand, Tinkyada Pasta Joy)
  • Water
  • 1 Tbs. olive oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • Cheese mixture
  • 1 large 48-ounce container cottage cheese, (Recommended brand, Darigold)
  • 2 cups mozzarella cheese, grated, use block of cheese and hand-grate. Verify ingredients are gluten free if using pre-shredded cheese.
  • 2 Tbs. Italian seasoning
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. ground pepper

Steps

Pre-heat oven to 350° F.

Fry ground beef with diced yellow onion and minced garlic. Add 2 ½ jars of spaghetti sauce to ground beef and simmer, blending flavors.

Fill a large cooking pot with enough water to cover noodles.  Add olive oil and salt with the water. Bring water to a boil and add lasagna noodles carefully without splashing hot water out of pot. Cook about 5 minutes. Gluten free lasagna noodles fall apart easily so do not overcook. The noodles will continue to soften when combined with the other ingredients in the oven.

Combine in a separate bowl, all ingredients for the cheese mixture.

In the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish, spoon ½ jar of spaghetti sauce. Cover entire pan with spaghetti sauce.

Place gluten free lasagna noodles, side by side, to cover bottom of dish.

Spoon ½ of cottage cheese mixture to cover noodles.

Layer 1/3 of the spaghetti sauce/ ground beef mixture to cover cheese mixture.

Repeat layering of 3 gluten free noodles, remaining cottage cheese mixture and 1/3 spaghetti sauce/ ground beef.

Finish with remaining 3 gluten free noodles and top with remaining 1/3 spaghetti sauce/ ground beef mixture to cover the noodles.

Bake for 30-40 minutes until bubbling and cooked through.

Sprinkle with grated mozzarella and cook 1 minute more.

Remove from oven and let set for at least 30 minutes or else the juices will run and it will not set up to cut and serve.

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