Meaty Three Cheese Lasagna

I am in one of those moods of cooking and I'm updating my Food Blog with more recipes. And I'm sure my little one would appreciate it, too though she eats pretty well and she's never fussed with my cooking because she just loves what I cook. I guess been a child, most children aren't given the choice of picking what they will like to have for meals but I always tell my little Caitlin what I will be cooking and if I am trying a new recipe, I will ask her for her opinion.

So, this week there going to be a couple of new recipes and I showed my little Caitlin and she picked this lasagna recipe and here I am cooking this for her.

Ingredients:-

- 500g of ground beef but it also depends on how much you are cooking and how big your dish is.

- 2 Tbsps olive oil

- 1 cup chopped onion 

- 1 tbsp minced garlic

- 6 oz or 170g tomato paste

- 28 oz or 800g or 2 cans of petite cut tomatoes 

- 1 tbsp Oregano

- 1 tbsp Basil

- 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes

- 1/2 tsp pepper 

- 1 tbsp salt

- 6-9 lasagna sheets, cooked according to instructions or use those pre-cooked ones

- 2-3 cups of shredded Mozarella cheese

- 10-15 oz container Ricotta cheese

- 3/4 cup Parmesan cheese

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius and at the same time grease a ovenproof dish.

2. Heat olive oil in a saucepan. Add beef, onion and garlic cook until meat turns brown and cooked through. 

3. Add tomato paste, tomatoes, oregano, basil, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper and cook until it comes to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 minutes.

4. Now arrange lasagna sheets at the bottom. Top the sheets with Mozarella cheese, then followed by spoonfuls of Ricotta cheese. Dish out the meat mixture onto the Ricotta cheese generously and then sprinkle generously with Parmesan cheese.

5. Repeat with another 2 layers but I only managed one more layer as my dish isn't so deep.

6. Bake for about 50 minutes.

Caitlin's verdict??? She had a second helping......so mummy passed Caitlin's test.