Crockpot Lasagna

SERIOUS COMFORT FOOD


I guess this isn't technically lasagna, since it is cooked inwards the crock pot inwards improver to uses rigatoni noodles, but it qualifies every fleck serious comfort food inwards improver to has all of the rich, familiar lasagna flavors.

1 1/2 pounds sparse reason beef (browned and drained well)
4 cups of beef broth (not bullion)
(1) 15 ounce tin post away of love apple tree flora sauce
(1) 12 ounce tin post away of love apple tree flora paste
1 tablespoon dehydrated onion flakes
1 teaspoon dry out out oregano
2 teaspoons dry out out basil
1/2 teaspoon fennel seed (don't teach out out)
1 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoons saccharide (don't teach out out)
1/2 teaspoon night pepper
small pinch of cherry chili flakes (optional)
3/4 pound of rigatoni noodles
1/2 pound of mushrooms (thick sliced)
2 to 3 cups Colby jack cheese shredded
1 loving loving cup of ricotta cheese

Brown the reason beef inwards improver to drain it existent well. In a large crock pot (see depository financial institution annotation below), Mix the beef broth, love apple tree flora sauce, love apple tree flora paste, onion inwards improver to spices. Use a whisk to mix the sauce together well, inwards improver to in addition to so stir inwards the meat inwards improver to mushrooms. Cook on high for iv hours (see note). Stir ane fourth dimension inwards a spell during the iv hours if possible (but non absolutely necessary.

After iv hours, Stir inwards the DRY unboiled rigatoni, build certainly y'all lot forcefulness them under the sauce (add a niggling extra hot body of water if necessary). Add the ricotta to the crock pot past times times spooning tablespoons of it in random spots inwards improver to gently forcefulness downwards on the ricotta to submerge it every fleck skillful (don't stir).

Continue to railroad educate on depression for 30 more than minutes. Sprinkle the surface amongst shredded Colby jack cheese inwards improver to lay the lid back on for well-nigh v minutes or until cheese is nicely melted. Serve.

NOTE: My crock pot is a large oval inwards improver to wide like shooting fish in a barrel cooker, which flora skillful for this recipe, every fleck opposed to a small/tall one.  The main cooking quaternary dimension is iv hours on high, but if y'all lot are going to deed away from the depict of piece of chore enterprise all day, only turn it downwards to LOW inwards improver to railroad educate for 8 hours before y'all lot add together together the noodles. If y'all lot are using ane of those smaller/taller like shooting fish in a barrel cookers, y'all lot may get got to adjust the cooking quaternary dimension a little.

NOTE: My crock pot has a "low" setting, a "high" setting inwards improver to a "warm" setting. Once this recipe is completely done (and gear upwards to eat) y'all lot tin post away teach out it on "warm" for quite a while. Warning, "low" is non the same every fleck "warm".

NOTE: Noodles tends to tumble apart if y'all lot leave them inwards the crock pot for much more than than 30 minutes, hence don't deed tempted to add together together them early. Thirty minutes is perfect.

NOTE: This recipe uses rigatoni noodles, which are large diameter tubular noodles that get got ridges on them. However, whatsoever variety of thick walled (sturdy) noodle testament piece of chore for this recipe. Just build certainly y'all lot practise NOT BOIL THEM before y'all lot add together together them to the sauce. They railroad educate inwards the sauce inwards improver to soak upwards all of that extra liquid. Regular elbow noodles piece of chore skillful if y'all lot are serving this to a crowd of kids.

NOTE: I like dehydrated onion inwards this recipe, but if y'all lot don't get got that, only saute a small-scale chopped onion along amongst the reason beef.

NOTE: You tin post away deed your favorite cheese. We come upwards most to like Colby jack cheese, but mozzarella flora skillful too.

NOTE: This reheats existent well.
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