This Slow Cooker Lasagna recipe has just 5 ingredients! It’s such an easy, family friendly meal perfect for busy days.
This simple dinner recipe is a big hit in my house. And I’m so happy to have a slow-cooker recipe that I can use for busy days where I don’t have time to cook. How cool is it that a slow cooker can make lasagna for you? Yes. Very cool, indeed! You do not need any experience in the kitchen to make this recipe!
Ingredients Needed:
- cottage cheese or ricotta cheese
- shredded mozzarella cheese
- jarred marinara sauce
- lean ground beef
- lasagna noodles- you do not need to cook them!
How to make Slow Cooker Lasagna:
The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.
- Place the cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese in a medium bowl and stir to combine.
- Add a thin layer of pasta sauce to the bottom of a slow cooker. Add a thin layer of the cooked ground beef and a layer of the noodles, breaking the noodles to make them fit. Top the noodle layer with a layer of the cheese mixture. Repeat until all of the ingredients are used, ending with a layer of sauce.
- Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Serve hot.
Recipe Tips
- Add in frozen chopped spinach, squeezed dry. Add in chopped mushrooms. Use sausage in place of ground beef. Be creative!
- As the lasagna comes out of the oven, sprinkle a little more mozzarella cheese on top, as well as some chopped fresh parsley. That will make it look pretty!
What is the Best Slow Cooker?
The slow cooker that I’ve bought over and over again is the Hamilton Beach Portable 6 Quart Digital Programmable Slow Cooker. It’s the absolute best. I gift it to everyone too. If you want to make two kinds of lasagna at the same time in your slow cooker, buy this silicone divider set!
What I Love About This Recipe:
- It’s a no-brainer, EASY dinner recipe.
- We love lasagna, but sometimes we don’t want to do all of the work to make a classic lasagna.
- This is on my list of repeat-slow cooker recipes for busy weeknights!
Best Slow Cooker Recipes:
Slow Cooker Lasagna
Ingredients
- 1 pound cottage cheese (can sub ricotta cheese)
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- Two 26-ounce jars marinara sauce
- 2 pounds lean ground beef, cooked and drained
- One 9-ounce package lasagna noodles
Instructions
- Place the cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese in a medium bowl and stir to combine.
- Add a thin layer of pasta sauce to the bottom of a slow cooker. Add a thin layer of the cooked ground beef and a layer of the noodles, breaking the noodles to make them fit. Top the noodle layer with a layer of the cheese mixture. Repeat until all of the ingredients are used, ending with a layer of sauce.
- Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Serve hot.
Notes
- Choose a type of marinara sauce that has garlic and Italian spices mixed in.
- Possible add-in: Frozen, defrosted spinach, squeezed dry.
- Substitution/additions: Ricotta cheese, ground turkey.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
breakfast for dinner – scrambled eggs & ham or pancakes & sausage
swoon!!! this looks so gooey and delicious i could cry! I love lasagna. what a yummy dish to come home to.
my fave weeknight meal is taco salad! it’s so flippin good and way easy to fix!
definitely depends on the season…this summer it was blt’s.
Grilled cheese. Can’t wait to try this lasagana! Thanks!
I make pasta sauce in huge batches and freeze it in 3 cup containers (enough for a pound of pasta when thinned with a little pasta water). I also make meatballs, bake them off and freeze them in ziploc bags. During the week, I start boiling pasta, thaw a container of sauce in a saucepan, and once it’s unfrozen, throw a few frozen meatballs in to heat up. it all winds up being ready at the same time, depending on what type of pasta you use 🙂
Pressed panini sandwiches! It is amazing how 5 minutes in the panini makes a regular sanwich into a gourmet meal!
breakfast – preferably scrambled eggs. (Pancakes can take forever to get through the whole batch).
My favorite is a quick chicken and vegetable stir fry.
I stop and get a rotisserie chicken and make a really great salad with lots of feta!
My favorite is throwing chicken breasts that I season with salt and pepper in my deep covered baker from Pampered Chef. Then, pop it in the microwave for 5-10 minutes depending on how many breasts are in there. Chop it up and then throw in artichokes and sun dried tomatoes and cut up baked asparagus. Then top each serving with feta. YUM! Its great for lunch the next day too. Everyone in my office always raves about how good it looks.