Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make Mini Lasagna Cups.
It's lasagna in single serving cups.
This is so much fun.
It would be great to serve as an appetizer at a party,
or you can even have it for dinner.
Let me tell you,
I've also made sure that it's a lot easier to make than a whole complete lasagna.
We're going to start by cooking up some lasagna pasta sheets.
Cook the lasagna in boiling water according to the package directions,
which should take about 10 minutes.
While the pasta is cooking we're going to go ahead and put together a quick meat sauce.
You'll need 1/2 pound of ground Italian sausage.
If you don't want to eat pork or you don't like sausage you can always use ground beef.
Put it into a large skillet and get it cooking until all the sausage is browned and cooked through.
This will take somewhere between 5 and 7 minutes.
Then we're going to add in about 4 cloves of minced garlic.
Add that in along with 2 teaspoons of Italian seasoning,
1/2 teaspoon of salt,
and give this a little stir.
Then you'll need a 6 ounce can of tomato paste.
Fun tip for you,
if you cut open both ends you can push it straight through and get all of your tomato paste out.
You'll also need 15 ounces of tomato sauce.
Stir this all in.
Let that heat through and then set it aside.
Next, we're going to work on our ricotta cheese.
You'll need about 1 1/2 cups of ricotta cheese,
and we'll season that with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper,
and then just stir that in.
Go ahead and set your ricotta cheese aside for just a second.
At this point your lasagna noodles should be done.
What we're going to do is we're going to take them and stack a few of them on top of each other,
and then cut them in half lengthwise.
And you're going to do this with 6 of your sheets.
You'll end up with 12 pieces like this that you can form into rings.
Go ahead and set those aside and then we're going to take some more of the lasagna pasta sheets,
and with the rest we're going to cut out little circles of pasta that are the same size as the bottom of a muffin tin.
And you'll need 36 of these.
Once you have all of those cut out you'll need a lightly greased muffin tin.
What you're going to do is take some of the circles and place one into the bottom of each little muffin tin.
Then you're going to take your long strips and curl them up on each other to form a little ring that you can slide in to form a little cup.
Once you have all of your little cups formed you'll take about 1 heaping tablespoon of the sauce and place it into the bottom of each little cup.
Then top it off with another little circle of pasta.
Then you'll put on 1 tablespoon of the ricotta,
another little circle of pasta,
and then top it all off with another spoonful of the meat sauce.
Once you have all of your cups assembled into layers the last thing you need to do is sprinkle on some freshly shredded mozzarella cheese.
I like to do just a little pile of cheese on each one.
Then we're going to bake these in a 350 degree oven for about 12-14 minutes.
You want the cheese to be melted and bubbling and everything to be heated through.
Then, you're ready to eat!
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