"Crack" Lasagna

12 ingredients
15 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 lb sweet Italian sausage (I like turkey or chicken sausage)
  • 1 lb broccoli rabe (bunch or bag) or 1 lb kale (bunch or bag)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup pesto sauce
  • 15 ounces low fat cottage cheese
  • 15 ounces ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg, slightly beaten
  • no-boil lasagna noodles
  • 1 cup mozzarella cheese (low fat or fat free is fine)
  • 1/4 cup pine nuts (optional)

Directions

  1. 1
    Brown and crumble sausage in a skillet.
  2. 2
    Wash and chop greens.
  3. 3
    Remove sausage from pan and drain on paper towels.
  4. 4
    Wipe out skillet. Heat olive oil in skillet and saute garlic.
  5. 5
    Add greens to skillet.
  6. 6
    Cook uncovered till wilted down.
  7. 7
    Add 1/3 cup water to skillet.
  8. 8
    Cook on low heat covered till greens are tender.
  9. 9
    Add the sausage back into the cooked greens.
  10. 10
    Set aside 1/2 cup to 1 cup of the greens sausage mixture for the top.
  11. 11
    Mix cottage cheese, ricotta, pesto and egg together. Salt and pepper to taste.
  12. 12
    Line the bottom of a lasagna pan with the lasagna noodles.
  13. 13
    Put half of the sausage/greens mixture on top of noodles followed by ricotta mixture.
  14. 14
    Layer with more lasagna noodles. Top with sausage/greens mixture followed by remaining ricotta mixture. Place another layer of noodles on top. Cover with monzerella cheese, reserved sausage/greens mixture and pine nuts if desired.
  15. 15
    Bake for 1/2 hour till melty and bubbly.

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