Christmas Lasagna
Yay!! Christmas is getting closer and closer, I love it! Dana and I are here to help you with new recipe ideas for the holiday season. Now on Christmas Day we have the usual turkey, ham and all the trimmings but for Christmas Eve we decided to change it up a bit and have lasagna. It feeds a lot of people and really who doesn’t love lasagna? So it is a real crowd pleaser. Since you can assemble it even the night before it makes the hectic Christmas Eve go a lot more smoothly.
This is my go to lasagna recipe, very simple, very classic, we jazz it up a little bit by adding in some Italian sausage. To make it more festive I put a Christmas Tree pattern on it made from bell peppers. I made the tree limbs out of green bell pepper slices, and decorated with chopped red and yellow pepper, the tree trunk is bit of red pepper and a (poorly shaped lol) star out of the yellow bell pepper.
I use no boil noodles and get this put together in no time. I pop it in the fridge and it is ready to go the next day for Christmas Eve dinner. A basket of garlic bread and a huge salad and Christmas Eve dinner is done!
So take it easy this Christmas Eve and make this awesome Christmas Lasagna! Don’t forget to leave some for Santa!! ;)
Christmas Lasagna
Ingredients
- 1 pound sausage
- 1 pound hamburger
- 2 jars spaghetti sauce
- 4-5 cups mozzarella cheese
- 2 eggs
- 32 oz ricotta
- 1 package no boil noodles
Instructions
- Brown and drain the sausage and hamburger together.
- Add sausage and hamburger to large bowl and pour in the two jars of sauce.
- In separate bowl mix the ricotta, 2 eggs and 1 cup of cheese.
- Spread a thin layer of sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 dish.
- Place noodles on top of sauce.
- Spread 1/3 of the cheese mixture on the noodles.
- Sprinkle with a little more shredded mozzarella.
- Top with more sauce.
- Do another layer of noodles.
- Cheese mixture
- Shredded cheese
- Sauce.
- Noodles.
- Cheese mixture.
- Sauce.
- Shredded Cheese.
- Arrange peppers into Christmas Tree shape.
- Cover with foil and bake 30-40 minutes at 350 till bubbly.
- Remove foil last few minutes of baking to let cheese get brown.
Want another alternative recipe for a Christmas Dinner main course? Check out Dana’s Slow Cooker Roasted Lemon Pepper Chicken! Yummy!
Want more Christmas Recipes? Here is more from our Christmas Series!
Don’t forget to check out our Thanksgiving Series for more recipes!!
Love this lasagna! It will be what I make for my husband and I if we are unable to travel for the holidays. I have pinned and shared to Facebook :)
That is quite a beautiful way to serve lasagna for the holidays!
How cute is that Christmas tree!? You had me at Italian sausage–sounds delicious!
This lasagna made me smile! Would never have thought of it. Speaking of alternative Christmas trees you may enjoy a recent post I put together over at http://www.ritewhileucan.com/faux-fir hope you stop by to check them out. Visiting via Lovely Ladies Linkup.
I love the Christmas tree you’ve made on your lasagna. So cute! Thanks for sharing at Simple Supper Tuesday.
Stopping by from SImple Suppers. What a cute, festive lasagna. Great idea!
This lasagna looks so colorful and festive that I would want to serve it at every party! just popping over from the DIY Showcase Link Party. I have pinned, liked and tweeted, and g+-ed. I would love it if you would drop by my site at http://www.kneadedcreations.com for a short visit! I will look forward to seeing you there! Deb @ Kneaded Creations.
How Cute! im going to have to make this soon for dinner during december! http://www.handmadeintheheartland.com/
Thanks for linking this up to our Marvelous Monday party…. pinning to my MM board! Hope to see you next week!
This is such a super cute idea. Thanks for sharing at the Pinworthy Projects Party!
Hi there! Wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your recipe for Christmas Lasagna and have chosen it as one of my favorites from last week’s Saturday Spotlight blog hop. It’s been featured on this week’s blog hop which starts at 6am EST on Saturday, and will be PINed to my Pinterest page. Thanks so much for linking up! Looking forward to seeing what you have to share next time.
April
Angels Homestead
What a super cute idea! Perfect for a Christmas dinner!
Wow, I will have to make this for Christmas, and probably before too, yum!
Thanks for the Christmas recipe. I am going to have company for Christmas day and I will prepare this delicious recipe..
Norma