Cooking Italian Recipes » food groups http://www.cookingitalianrecipes.net Authentic Italian Cuisine Made Easy Sat, 07 May 2011 15:35:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cooking Pasta Dishes http://www.cookingitalianrecipes.net/cooking-pasta-dishes http://www.cookingitalianrecipes.net/cooking-pasta-dishes#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:55:18 +0000 admin http://cookingitalianrecipes.net/cooking-pasta-dishes


Cooking is something people do daily in one way or the other. Whatever meal we are cooking, making a tuna sandwich or baking a cookie, we need a recipe to follow. Sometimes we may not think that we are following a written recipe because it is one that is very simple and we have it memorized, like making a sandwich, but in actuality we are following a recipe even though it is one that is in our subconscious. People are also more health conscious nowadays. An increasing number of people are on a healthy diet and they want to cook healthy diet food. Most people know that a complete meal should contain every food group including meat, carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits, and so no. The healthy diet pyramid shows you what you should have in your ingredients.

Here is a wonderful crockpot recipe for a pasta dish main course that consists of ingredients from almost every food group. This pasta dish is chicken lasagna. It sounds like a simple dish but it is wonderfully delicious. It serves 4 people and takes about 5 hours to prepare. It is not complicated to make but not very easy either. However, the resulting dish is so tasty that it is well worth the effort.

Ingredients needed for the Chicken Lasagna

You will need approximately 1 pound of cooked, shredded chicken breasts or more if you like more protein than a normal person. Then, you need 1 large onion, finely chopped, 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped, 2 jars (17 oz.) of spaghetti sauce, 1 package (18 ounce) “no-cook” lasagna noodles, 1 package (9 oz.) of shredded mozzarella cheese, 1 container (9 oz.) of ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 1/4 cup milk, and 1 egg. Now, if you have your favorite vegetables, such as eggplants, you may add some too but make sure they are finely chopped.

Making this Chicken Lasagna in a Crockpot

First you may want to brown the onions, any other vegetables, and garlic in a non-stick pan. Then you can add the spaghetti sauce and mix everything together very well. In a separate bowl, you can mix the cheeses, milk and egg. It is best to grease the crockpot a little. Place 1/4 of the meat sauce mixture in the bottom of the crockpot then, 1/3 of a layer of noodles. You can break the noodles so that they fit into your crockpot. After that, you can place roughly 1/3 of the cheese mixture on top. Then, repeat the process of: sauce, noodles, cheese for two more layers. Put the remaining meat sauce on top. Cook in the crockpot on low setting for about 6 hours until the noodles are soft.

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