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Individual Lasagna

This Individual Lasagna is made with creamy Ricotta, shredded Mozzarella, and a hearty meat marinara sauce. It has lots of flavor and it’s easier and faster to prepare by using no-boil oven ready lasagna noodles. 

This lasagna is assembled in two individual dishes for a fun lunch, dinner, or an impressive date night meal for two.

Can you boil oven ready lasagna noodles?

They are not meant to be boiled but you can boil them for about 4 minutes to make them more pliable if you want to make lasagna roll-ups.

Lasagna No Boil Noodles in a casserole dish.
Lasagna No Boil Noodles

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How to make Individual Lasagna

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

Carefully break each noodle in half and dice the onion.

oven ready noodles cut in half and onions diced on a cutting board.

Fry the onion and ground beef in a medium skillet for a few minutes until beef is browned, breaking up any clumped meat. Drain and return to the pan.

ground beef and onion cooking in a pan.

Add in the garlic, oregano, basil, salt and pepper. Stir in the marinara sauce and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.

homemade spaghetti meat sauce cooking in a pan.

At the same time, in a small bowl, whisk together the egg, ricotta and parmesan.

ricotta, parmesan, and egg mixed in a bowl.

In the bottom of two individual 18.6 ounce oven safe dishes, place about 1/3 of the meat sauce across the bottoms, divided evenly.

homemade spaghetti meat sauce in two casserole dishes.

Top the sauce with one half noodle in each dish.

homemade spaghetti meat sauce topped with no boil noodles in two casserole dishes.

Spread the ricotta mixture over the noodles in each dish, divided evenly.

ricotta cheese mixture added to lasagna casserole dishes.

Then top with another 1/3 of the meat sauce mixture, divided evenly.

Add another half noodle to each dish.

more sauce and oven ready noodles added to casserole dishes.

Pour on the remaining 1/3 of the sauce, divided evenly.

Layer the shredded mozzarella, or the mozzarella slices, over the sauce in each dish, divided evenly.

mozzarella cheese sprinkled over lasagna in dishes.
Lasagna Bowl

Loosely tent the dishes with foil and bake for 40 minutes.

Remove foil and bake another 10 minutes, allowing cheese to brown.

Let cool for about 15 minutes before serving.

Serve on cork trivets or pot holders to protect surfaces. Be careful, they will still be very hot!

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American Lasagna Recipe

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Yield: Serves 2

Individual Lasagna

American Lasagna Recipe in a baking dish.

This Individual lasagna recipe is made with creamy Ricotta, shredded Mozzarella, and a hearty meat marinara sauce. It has lots of flavor and it’s easier and faster to prepare by using no-boil oven ready lasagna noodles.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Cool Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 no boil oven ready lasagna noodles
  • 1 small onion
  • 8 ounces lean ground beef
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • Salt and Black pepper to taste
  • 1 1/2 cups marinara sauce
  • 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
  • 4 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese (or fresh sliced mozzarella)
  • Fresh parsley (for garnish - optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. Carefully break each noodle in half and dice the onion.
  3. Fry the onion and ground beef in a medium skillet for a few minutes until beef is browned, breaking up any clumped meat. Drain and return to the pan.
  4. Add in the garlic, oregano, basil, salt and pepper. Stir in the marinara sauce and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
  5. At the same time, in a small bowl, whisk together the egg, ricotta and parmesan.
  6. In the bottom of two individual 18.6 ounce oval oven safe baking dishes, place about 1/3 of the meat sauce across the bottoms, divided evenly.
  7. Top the sauce with one half noodle in each dish.
  8. Spread the ricotta mixture over the noodles in each dish, divided evenly.
  9. Then top with another 1/3 of the meat sauce mixture, divided evenly.
  10. Add another half noodle to each dish.
  11. Pour on the remaining 1/3 of the sauce, divided evenly.
  12. Layer the shredded mozzarella, or the mozzarella slices, over the sauce in each dish, divided evenly.
  13. Loosely tent the dishes with foil and bake for 40 minutes.
  14. Remove foil and bake another 10 minutes, allowing cheese to brown.
  15. Let cool for about 15 minutes before serving.
  16. Serve on cork trivets or pot holders to protect surfaces. Be careful, they will still be very hot!

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

2

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 775Total Fat: 39gSaturated Fat: 18gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 265mgSodium: 1967mgCarbohydrates: 39gFiber: 5gSugar: 13gProtein: 65g

Nutrition information is a guideline only, is calculated automatically by third party software, and absolute accuracy is not guaranteed.

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Jordan

Wednesday 14th of October 2020

If I need to use gluten free noodles (or regular noodles) can I use cooked ones in place of the no boil lasagna noodles?

Zona

Wednesday 14th of October 2020

Hi Jordan, if you want to cook the noodles first I would recommend reducing the amount of sauce by about 1/4 cup since the noodles won't need to absorb as much during baking. I hope that helps :)

Lisa M.

Thursday 11th of June 2020

I love your site....great job and delicious recipes....thank you!

Zona

Friday 12th of June 2020

Thank you so much Lisa :)

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