Discover how to make the ultimate slow cooker lasagne—rich, cheesy, and comforting—plus an easy homemade garlic bread recipe to complete the meal.

Slow cooker lasagne and easy garlic bread via www.clairekcreations.com

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If you’ve been visiting here for a while you will know one thing about me. I get on a roll (some may call it an addiction) with food and I make it and make it and make it and then I get sick of it.

At one stage. That addiction as lasagne and I blamed the Thermomix for making it so easy to make bechamel sauce. Now Thermi is going to have to share a little of that blame with mr slow cooker because - and yes I may be a little late to the party - I have discovered slow cooker lasagne.

Slow cooker lasagne via www.clairekcreations.com

I will admit, when I took the lid off the slow cooker come dinner time, I said to Will ‘sorry this really doesn’t look too good.’ I dished up a portion, snapped some photos and then served it up and hoped for the best.

One bite in and I was very very happy. The meat was so very tender and apart from the missing crunch that you get on top of an oven-baked lasagne, there was no difference and dare I say this one might have been even better? Especially considering how little work went into it.

The original recipe uses a jar of pasta sauce as the sauce but I used a jar of passata instead (I will sometimes use my homemade veggie packed tomato sauce) and sautéed some onion and garlic for extra flavour. It was good. Seriously good and Will agreed.

I also made a quick loaf of garlic bread from a frozen hot dog roll, butter and garlic. Tastes even better than any of the store-bought ones I think. Next time I'll have to use my homemade hotdog buns.

I'm yet to try this one on the boys. Dare I admit their favourite lasagne is a frozen one we get from Angelo's, but I'm adding it to the list for the coming weeks.

What about you? Have you ever made lasagne in the slow cooker? Do you get obsessed with certain foods?

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Slow cooker lasagne

The ultimate slow cooker lasagne—rich, cheesy, and comforting—plus an easy homemade garlic bread recipe to complete the meal.

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Course: Dinner

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: slow cooker

Prep Time: 20

Cook Time: 5

Total Time: 5 20

Servings:

Calories: 574kcal

Author: adapted from [url href="http://oreosandcoolwhip.blogspot.ca/2012/08/go-to-meal-crockpot-lasagna.html" target="_blank"]Things I make for dinner[/url]

Ingredients

2 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion diced
1 clove garlic minced
500 g 1lb beef mince
700 g 1 bottle passata
2 teaspoon basil pesto
About ¼ cup of water
Salt
Pepper
250 g cottage cheese
1 free-range egg
1 ½ cups of a combination of grated cheddar parmesan, mozzarella and or ricotta
A handful of spinach leaves
Dried lasagne sheets I used 7

Instructions

In a large frying pan, heat the olive oil and add the onion and garlic and saute, stirring, until softened.
Add the mince and cook, breaking up any lumps, just until browned.
Add the passata and then pour a little bit of water into the bottle and shake it up to clean it then tip that in the pan too.
Stir through the pesto and some salt and pepper and then set aside.
In a separate bowl, combine the cottage cheese, egg and grated cheeses.
Spread ⅓ of the meat sauce onto the bottom of the slow cooker pan and then add a layer of spinach.
Cover with dried pasta sheets (you may need to break them a little) then spread with ⅓ of the meat again.
Dollop half the cheese mixture over the top of the meat and then cover with more pasta sheets.
Finish with the rest of the meat sauce and then the rest of the cheese.
Cook on high for 2 hours and then low for 1 hour or 5 hours on low.

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Have you made this recipe? I'd love to hear what you think. Tag me on Instagram @clairekcreations

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Easy peasy garlic bread

The simplest garlic bread you'll ever make.

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: bread, garlic