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Easy Yellow Squash Lasagna Bowl

March 12, 2018 By Tekesha 2 Comments

yellow squash lasagna

The weather has swung back to being cold, my daughter and I are under the weather, I’m nervous about my daughter’s upcoming first plane ride, I’m miserable about losing an hour of sleep to Daylight Savings Time, and I just want some comfort food! For me, that is usually the flavors of lasagna. But I’m finding that I can’t eat as much cheese as I used to and I had neither the time nor desire to pre-grill veggies, so I came up with this glorious dish.

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Easy Yellow Squash Lasagna Bowl
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
1 hour
Total time
1 hour 10 mins
 
This easy yellow squash lasagna is low in carbs, fast to put together, and low on the cheese. Perfect weeknight comfort food!
Author: Tekesha @ EatMoreFoodProject
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 24 oz spaghetti sauce
  • 3 tbsp heavy cream
  • 2 yellow squash
  • 7.5 oz ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tbsp onion salt
  • ½ tbsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375.
  2. In a skillet, brown ground beef.
  3. Add spaghetti sauce and cream to the ground beef and let simmer while you prep the remaining components.
  4. Cut off ends of squash and scoop out the seeds inside with a spoon.
  5. Cut the squash into ¼"-thick half-moon slices.
  6. In a small bowl, mix together ricotta, egg, onion salt and pepper.
  7. Layer as follows: little meat sauce, half the squash, half the ricotta, sprinkle of parmesan, ¼ cup mozzarella, half the remaining meat sauce, remainder of the squash, remainder of the ricotta, remainder of the meat sauce, and remaining mozzarella.
  8. Bake for 40 minutes.
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squash lasagna nutrition

You’re going to need:

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 24 oz spaghetti sauce
  • 3 tbsp heavy cream
  • 2 yellow squash
  • 7.5 oz ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tbsp onion salt
  • 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

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Grease a baking dish and preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

Brown your ground beef in a skillet.

ground beef in skillet

Add spaghetti sauce and heavy cream and let it simmer on medium while you prep the remaining items. I use Ragu Mushroom and Green Pepper sauce because it’s my favorite.

ground beef and spaghetti sauce

The cream sort of cooks out and makes the sauce really rich. I do this a lot when I make Indian sauces and it just makes them really velvety without drastically changing the flavor.

ground beef, spaghetti sauce and heavy cream

Get your squash out. I had a lone zucchini languishing in the fridge, so I threw it in as well.

yellow squash and zucchini

Cut off the ends and scoop out the inner seeds with a spoon. This is what will really cut down on the wateriness while the lasagna bakes. If you have time, you could also choose to grill the squash instead to get rid of moisture.

de-seeding yellow squash

Cut the veggies into 1/4″ thick half-moon slices.

sliced yellow squash and zucchini

Mix together the ricotta, egg, onion salt and pepper.

ricotta mixture

Now you’re ready to assemble your lasagna.

lasagna ingredients

Layer the lasagna as follows:

A spoon of meat sauce to keep the veggies from sticking to the pan…

layer 1

1/2 the veggies…

layer 2

1/2 the ricotta mixture…

layer 3

a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and 1/4 cup of shredded mozzarella…

layer 4

1/2 the remaining meat sauce…

layer 5

the remainder of the veggies…

layer 6

the remainder of the ricotta mixure…

layer 6

the remainder of the meat sauce…

layer 8

and the remainder of the shredded mozzarella.

top layer

Bake for 40 minutes and enjoy a nice big bowl of meaty, veggie goodness!

yellow squash lasagna bowl

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Comments

  1. Charla @ That Girl Cooks Healthy says

    March 16, 2018 at 5:49 AM

    This looks like something I would definitely eat for dinner. Good to see you’re blogging again ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Reply
    • Tekesha says

      March 16, 2018 at 7:26 AM

      Thanks, girl!! ๐Ÿ˜€

      Reply

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