Porcini Spinach Lasagna (Aka Blizzard Lasagna)



Ingredients:

1 oz dried porcini mushrooms
iv cups boiling water

for the sauce:
2 lb sweetness Italian sausage (casing removed if necessary)
1 large onion, diced
iii cloves garlic, minced
1 large carrot, diced
2 28-oz canned petite diced tomatoes
1 loving loving cup dry out out white wine
1 loving loving cup whole milk
salt
pepper


for the filling:
1 lb ricotta
1 lb frozen chopped spinach, defrosted inwards add-on to squeezed dry
2 loving loving cup shredded fresh mozzarella
1/4 loving loving cup parmesan
1 egg
salt
pepper


5-6 sheets of fresh pan-length inwards add-on to width pasta*
extra shredded mozzerella for sprinkling

Directions:

Cover the porcini mushrooms amongst iv cups of boiling H2O inwards a heat-safe container. Allow to seep 1 hour. Strain out the mushrooms, reserving the liquid. Finely chop the mushrooms, pose aside. Strain the mushroom liquid through a damp-paper-towel lined strainer into a bowl (to convey away whatsoever grit).

Preheat oven to 400.

For the sauce:
Brown the sausage inwards a large, heavy pot breaking upwardly whatsoever large pieces. When nearly fully cooked, drain off every chip much obese every chip possible. Add the onion, garlic inwards add-on to carrot. Cook until the vegetables soften therefore add together together the vino inwards add-on to gear upwardly until yesteryear inwards add-on to large evaporated. Add the loving loving cup of milk inwards add-on to gear upwardly until yesteryear inwards add-on to large evaporated. Add the tomatoes, 2 cups of mushroom liquid, tabular array tabular array salt inwards add-on to pepper. Stir occasionally inwards add-on to simmer 3-4 hours. If the sauce begins to grip off dry, add together together small-scale amounts of the reserved mushroom liquid.

For the filling:
Mix all ingredients listed plus the reserved mushrooms inwards a large bowl. Set aside until gear upwardly to use.

Assembly:
Generously butter the bottom inwards add-on to sides of a 9x13 inch pan. Place a (uncooked, fresh) noodle on the bottom of the pan. Top amongst cheese mixture, add together together around other noodle, altitude amongst sauce.


Continue inwards this pattern until the pan is full, ending amongst a layer of space. Sprinkle amongst cheese. Cover inwards foil inwards add-on to bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil inwards add-on to laissez passer on off to bake an additional 10 minutes or until heated through. Allow to sit down downward for a duo of minutes before slicing.

Refrigerate leftovers. Remove leftovers from refrigerator 20 minutes prior to baking. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes, covered inwards foil. Remove foil inwards add-on to bake 10-20 additional minutes or until cooked through.



*We bought these at our local Italian store where they cutting them to the width of our pan (we cutting the length at domicile using a pizza cutter). Alternately, slice of project (cooked) dried pasta sheets or follow the instructions hither to build your ain fresh basil lasagna noodles. Slice whatsoever leftover fresh pasta into thinner noodles for around other dish if desired.


My thoughts:
As yous may convey heard, Baltimore is under a ton of snowfall right now. As I type this right away on Monday morning, the snowfall has been stopped since Sat nighttime just our street is even then under nearly 30 inches of snowfall therefore we are non going anywhere anytime soon! Luckily, Matt came domicile early from slice of project on Friday inwards add-on to stopped off at the local Italian store inwards add-on to brought domicile ingredients to build lasagna inwards add-on to yummy sandwiches. While he was inwards line, he noticed mortal getting fresh lasagna noodles. It turns out they non alone sell fresh lasagna noodles, they testament cutting them to grip your pan! We've been going inwards that identify for nigh 10 years inwards add-on to never knew that. Well, that was ameliorate than the dried ones we planned on using therefore he picked around upwardly likewise inwards add-on to for alone nigh $1 to a greater extent than than the dried! Around dejeuner 4th dimension on Saturday, he started the sauce inwards add-on to therefore we had the best lasagna e'er for dinner! The sauce was total of sausage just surprisingly non heavy or overpowering inwards add-on to the filling was awesome. Lots of spinach inwards add-on to yous could truly sense of relish the mushrooms. In fact inwards that identify was therefore much spinach inwards add-on to mushrooms, I didn't fifty-fifty sense bad nigh non serving the salad I had planned.

Please excuse the picture, this is truly the reheated lasagna from the side yesteryear times side day, Saturday's lasagna was a fleck prettier just it was likewise dark to instruct a skilful moving icon (it was pretty dark on Sun too). The downside to cooking inwards the winter. Anyway, if yous regain yourself snowed inwards or amongst a costless solar daytime build this lasagna! You testament non grip upwardly disappointed.


 2 loving loving cup shredded fresh mozzarella Porcini Spinach Lasagna (Aka Blizzard Lasagna)
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