Description
Another crockpot meal using Spinach to replace the pasta in your dish. You won’t miss it!
Ingredients
Scale
Meat sauce
- 2 lbs of lower fat ground beef (you can also use ground turkey or deer) browned
- 2 cloves of garlic chopped
- 4 cups of water
- 3 cans of 6 oz tomato paste
- 2 tsp basil dried
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 4 drops of liquid stevia or a tsp of Truvia
Cheese Mixture
- 3 cups of cottage cheese (I used 2%)
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mozzarella
- 1 tsp basil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp. parm
Lasagna
- 3/4‘s of a big 16oz tub of baby spinach
- 2 cups of mozzarella
- 1/2 cup of parm
Instructions
- Brown meat.
- Add garlic chopped.
- Add the tomato paste.
- Add spices and water.
- Mix well.
- **Read Note on Frozen Meat Sauce
- Place 1/3 of meat sauce at the bottom of crock pot.
- Mix cottage cheese, eggs, basil, salt, parm and 1 cup of mozzarella.
- Spread 1/3 of cheese mixture on top of meat sauce.
- Place half of the spinach on top of the layer in crock pot.
- Add the next 1/3 of the meat sauce on top of spinach.
- Add the next 1/3 of the cheese mixture, then 1 cup of cheese.
- The last of the spinach comes next.
- Add the last of the meat sauce on top of the spinach.
- Add the last of the cheese mixture.
- Add 1 cup of mozzarella on top of that.
- Add 1/2 cup of parm.
- Cover with a lid and set on high for 3 hours or low for 5 or 6 hours.
Notes
- **If using frozen meat sauce, just allow the meat sauce to thaw. Follow the rest of the steps from there.
- This is an S lasagna, gluten free/wheat free. I did serve with a low carb bread from a recipe in the Trim Healthy Mama book. This served 3 adult eaters, and 4 little eaters.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6