So my big boy doesn't like red sauce... where did this child come from? I love spagetti sauce and I love tomatoes and I LOVE red sauce! Although he does eats pizza with it and he likes ketchup. Well, I had a bunch of fancy white cheese and I had everything I needed except cottage cheese to make a yummy lasagna, so I picked up some cottage cheese and this is how it came to be and it was DELICIOUS!
INGREDIENTS
9 lasagna noodles, uncooked
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 whole onion
One whole garlic bulb, peeled and diced small
8 oz button mushrooms, sliced
1 bunch of asparagus, cut into 1 inch pieces
4 Tbsp butter
1/4 cup flour
2 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
2 cups sharp white cheeses, divided
12 oz container cottage cheese
1 cup mozzarella cheese
1 Tbsp fresh cilantro
slat and pepper, to taste
1/2 cup water
METHOD
Sauté the onion in olive oil, then add the garlic and mushrooms, saute for about 10 minutes, then add the asparagus, cover, remove from heat and let steep. Meanwhile make your white sauce. Place butter and flour in a small pan and cook till flour is fragrant, heat the milk in the microwave in a pyrex measuring cup while the butter and flour cook, then slowly add the hot milk to the flour and butter, stirring constantly until you have a smooth white sauce. Add to the mushroom mixture. This is your white sauce.
In a medium bowl, mix parmesan cheese, 1 1/2 cups sharp white cheeses with the cottage cheese, and parsley. This is the cheese mixture.
In a 7 x 10 inch baking dish spread a small amount of white sauce in the bottom, then place 3 lasagna noodles on top, then put half the cheese mixture on the noodles, spread half the remaining white sauce on top, 3 more lasagna noodles, then the rest of the cheese mixture, then the rest of the white sauce, 3 more noodles and top with the 1/2 cup sharp white and 1 cup mozzerella cheeses. You may need more mozzerella than that, I also added about 1/2 cup water to make sure the noodles had enough moisture to cook properly. Cover with foil, then bake at 350˚F for 1 hour. Remove the foil for the last 15 minutes of cooking time so the cheese can brown on top.
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