Introducing: Low Carb Lasagna!

[jmowreader]

Winco Foods is a chain of supermarkets in the Pacific Northwest. They have two good features: very cheap prices and the biggest bulk department I've ever seen. There's AISLES in this joint's bulk department, man!

Anyway, they sell unseasoned carne asado meat--just a roast sliced thin while it's still raw. I get some every time I go in there. And I started looking at it...hmmm...y'know, this shit would PROBABLY substitute for lasagna noodles...

Hence, Low Carb Lasagna.

Step 1: Make a thicker marinara sauce than normal (if you use tomato paste, go one can of paste plus one of water rather than one of paste to three of water) and simmer two pounds of this meat in it for about an hour. I tried skipping this step and the moisture in the meat thinned out the sauce too much.

Step 2: Take the meat out of the sauce and look at how thick the sauce currently is--if it looks a little thick, thin it out some. A little thin? Add another can of tomato paste.

Step 3: layer sauce, meat, cheese (mozzarella is what I used), sauce, meat, cheese, until you run out of meat. Then put down another layer of sauce, a layer of mozzarella and sprinkle heavily with parmesan.

Step 4: put in 325-degree oven and bake for 30 minutes.

Step 5: remove from oven, let sit 10 minutes, then serve.

[Kali]

1. I do it with grilled eggplant instead of pasta sometimes

and I like to use cottage cheese instead of ricotta

LOTS of mozzarella, Parmesan and a meat sauce of either ground beef or Italian sausage

[tanyev]

7. I replace the pasta with long thin zucchini strips.

It's yummy. And we have to--hubby is Type 1 diabetic and can only have 40 carbs per meal.

[maddezmom]

2. sounds yummy

going to try it this week. :)

[HopeHoops]

3. Low carb? What's the point? I made a vegan lasagne that was awesome.

Basically, I used soft tofu (mashed) instead of cheese and mushrooms, bulger wheat, and vegetables to give it body. My "meat, meat, meat" brother-in-law had no idea it was vegan until my sister-in-law started asking about it.

[jmowreader]

4. I kinda made it as a joke

The original name of it was "meat lasagna." I do a lot of "what would happen if?" stuff in the kitchen, and when I got the meat this time I thought making a lasagna-like dish using the strips of meat instead of noodles would be good. (It is.) Anyway, I had enough for two meals, and I took the leftovers to work to eat there. Someone saw it and said, "ooh...low carb!" Hence the new name.

[HopeHoops]

8. E-GADS - Atkins lasagna? AAARRGGHH!!!

Next time try strips of bacon instead of noodles - just beware of MFM!!!

[Taverner]

5. Also use as much garlic as you can - it's better than adding fat

[quakerboy]

6. 2 things...

1) I like it. But why steak instead of precooked bacon
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FRSghXhDM