Lasagna Cupcakes Recipe
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Lasagna is an Italian comfort food that I absolutely love. However, it's not really practical to make on a weeknight. By the time you boil the pasta, make homemade sauce, and bake it it'd be almost time for bed!
To make weeknight meals go a little quicker I like to alter recipes so they cook faster. In addition, I rely heavily on my "Cantry" (pantry filled with canned goods). Canned tomato sauce has wonderful flavor, and doesn't require slaving over a hot stove for hours.
Here are the ingredients I picked up at our local Giant Eagle
📖 Recipe
Lasagna Cupcakes
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Ingredients
- 1 Can Del Monte Tomato Sauce 26.5 oz
For the Cheese filling
- 10 oz. tub Philadelphia Italian Herb & Cheese Cooking Cream
- ⅓ cup grated parmesan cheese
- ¾ pound mozzarella cheese grated & divided
- ⅓ cup ricotta cheese
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 1 egg
- 21 lasagne pasta sheets
Instructions
- Divide Mozarella cheese in half. Then mix ½ of the mozarella and all the other filling ingredients together.
- Cook your pasta as directed on the packaging (minus a minute or 2). Lay on wax paper until ready to use.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray muffin tin with nonstick spray or use parchment paper. Make the pasta sheet into a circular shape and put it around the muffin tin hole.Spoon about ½ tablespoon of sauce into the bottom of each cup.
- Cut 9 pasta sheets into quarters and press one of these pieces of pasta into the bottom of your original noodle and,on top of the sauce.
- Top pasta sheet with a tablespoon of sauce and then a tablespoon of cheese filling.
- Repeat this pasta-sauce-cheese layering one more time.
- Top t off with a 3rd piece of pasta, more sauce and the remaining mozzarella cheese.
- Add a bit of sauce on the very top around the scalloped edges, so they don't get overdone.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Nutrition
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These look so good! Im going to have to give these a try, I don't like cream cheese though so I wonder if it would work if I omitted it.
Hi Stephanie,
I would just add more ricotta and it should be good! 🙂
I think this is a very good idea for a new twist on a classic dish, thank you for posting this!!
YUM!!! I need to make this! It looks so good and easy too.
What a good idea. I love lasagna but it always turns into a 20 lb. pan. (My husband weighs it) That's too much for two people. This is perfect! Thanks!
I've never encountered making lasagna this way before, and this is soooo cool! I can't wait to try it! I adore lasagna!
Yum! We love lasagna and would love to try this recipe!
Umm... YES PLEASE!!!! These looook delish!
Thanks Eugenia 🙂