This quick and easy skillet recipe will have Lasagna on the table in about 30 minutes, and only use one pan. Good food, fast.

Lasagna

A big cheesy pile of pasta sitting on your plate. Meat and greens tumbling out from within, all smothered in piping hot red sauce. This was quite possibly my favorite meal as a kid. I remember asking for it for birthday dinners, holiday feasts, graduation parties, whenever I could convince my mother to dust off the pasta machine and start cranking noodles through. The sauce would simmer all day long, while I snuck chunks of bread into the pot to taste it. And it would get baked, allowed to cool off for several hours, and baked again. An all day cooking event.

But I want Lasagna now

This is not that lasagna. I still make it every few months, and the kids love cranking pasta dough. But the idea here is simplicity. This is a lasagna for when you get home from work and want a meal on the table quick.

Feel free to use freshly rolled lasagna noodles if you are up to making them (at some point I may even have my homemade pasta recipe up on here). They will work just as well as the no-bake noodles called for in the recipe. Make sure you don’t use regular dried noodles though, or you will have quite a crunchy entree on your hands.

And I highly recommend making your own red sauce, I always have some on hand for pasta or pizza, and you can freeze jars of it to have whenever you need it. But also feel free to grab a couple cans or jars at the store. Whatever is on sale will work out fine.

This is your skillet lasagna, not mine.

And change whatever you need or want to in the filling. I used ground sausage, but ground beef, turkey, pork will work just as well. You can even throw in some chunks of sausage if you want. And if you’re one of those people that really loves Kale, that’ll work instead of spinach, just make sure you pull the stems off first.

One of the best parts about this recipe, it doesn’t require an oven. So you can have lasagna cooked over a campfire, a camping stove, or even a robust hotplate.

Looking for more Skillet Recipes? Here are some of my favorites!

skillet focaccia with herbs
campfire banana bread pudding

And if you’re looking for something to do with that leftover red sauce,
easy game day stromboli

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Yield: 1 Lasagna

Skillet Lasagna

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This quick and easy recipe will have Lasagna on the table in about 30 minutes. Good food, fast.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 lb Italian sausage (ground not links)
• 4 cups of red sauce (jarred, canned or homemade)
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, plus more for garnish
• 9 sheets no-bake lasagna noodles (or fresh)
• 3 1/2 cups baby spinach
• 1/2 pound mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced

Instructions

1. Mix the ricotta, egg, parmesan, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pepper to taste in a bowl.
2. Heat a large cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add olive oil.
3. Sauté Garlic until just beginning to brown.
4. Add ground sausage and cook until cooked through (about 5 minutes)
5. Remove sausage and set aside.
6. Heat 1 cup of the sauce in the skillet and reduce the heat to low.
7. Place 3 lasagna noodles over the sauce in the skillet. Cover with half of the spinach, half of the ricotta mixture, half of the sausage, a few pieces of mozzarella and 1/4 cup of the reserved tomato sauce.
8. Repeat the layers, ending with noodles. Top with the remaining sauce and mozzarella. Cover and simmer until the lasagna is cooked and the cheese melts, 20 to 25 minutes.
9. Let rest for a few minutes before slicing. Garnish with more Parmesan and fresh herbs.

Notes

Adapted from PassTheSushi

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Nutrition Information:

Yield:

6

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 598Total Fat: 41gSaturated Fat: 16gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 26gCholesterol: 122mgSodium: 1668mgCarbohydrates: 23gFiber: 4gSugar: 11gProtein: 33g