Slow Cooker Sausage and Squash Lasagna Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
This Slow Cooker Sausage and Squash Lasagna Recipe | MyRecipes is a PCOS-friendly recipe.
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 9 ounces part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1 ounce Asiago cheese, grated and divided (about 1/4 cup)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, divided
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 6 garlic cloves, divided
- 6 cups water
- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 large yellow crookneck squash, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 1 large zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- Cooking spray
- 12 ounces hot turkey Italian sausage links, casings removed
- 2 cups chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 (3.5-ounce) packages shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and sliced
- 1 cup unsalted chicken stock (such as Swanson)
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
- 1 (25-ounce) jar lower-sodium marinara sauce (such as Dell'Amore)
- 12 uncooked lasagna noodles
- 4 ounces fontina cheese, shredded and divided (about 1 cup)
Instructions
- Combine ricotta, 2 tablespoons Asiago cheese, 1 tablespoon parsley, 1 tablespoon chives, pepper, and 1 garlic clove, grated, in a bowl; set aside.
- Bring 6 cups water to a boil in a large skillet; stir in red wine vinegar. Add squash and zucchini; cook 2 minutes. Drain.
- Heat skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add sausage; cook 7 minutes, stirring to crumble. Stir in onion; cook 8 minutes or until onion is tender.
- Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms; cook 10 minutes or until mushroom liquid nearly evaporates. Mince 5 garlic cloves; stir into mushrooms. Stir in stock, basil, and marinara. Bring to a boil; remove from heat.
- To assemble lasagna, spoon 1 cup marinara mixture into the bottom of a 6-quart electric slow cooker. Top with 4 noodles, breaking noodles to fit cooker. Layer half of squash mixture, half of sausage mixture, and 1/4 cup fontina cheese over noodles; top with 1 cup marinara mixture. Arrange 4 noodles over marinara mixture; top with ricotta mixture. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup fontina; top with remaining half of sausage mixture and remaining half of squash mixture. Arrange remaining 4 noodles over squash mixture; top with remaining 1 1/2 cups sauce and 1/4 cup fontina. Cover and cook on LOW for 4 hours.
- Preheat broiler.
- Uncover slow cooker; sprinkle lasagna with remaining 1/4 cup fontina and remaining 2 tablespoons Asiago. Broil on middle rack of oven for 2 minutes or until cheese browns slightly. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon parsley and remaining 1 tablespoon chives. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Basil.
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