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THIS IS AMAZING. Seriously my favorite thing I have made from you. My husband loved it and the leftovers are fantastic! Didn’t change a thing.
Brooke K
Shout out to our friends at DeLallo for cooking up the incredible sauce and whole wheat oven ready noodles that MAKE this lasagna – and for sponsoring this post!
Ohhhk yuhssssss.
It’s just, like, way too obvious, but my love for this is out of control.
The feelings I have for this Super Easy One Pot Lasagna recipe — also known as Pot o’ Saucy Noodles with Cheese-Melted Goodness — are SO VERY BIG. And I’m pretty sure that I’m not even annoying with how much I love it right now. Me? Annoying with a love for food? uhh hello? never.
Two bites into his massive bowl of lasagna leftovers (it’s a food blogger’s life for us), I think Bjork just about died with old-school lasagna happiness. Look, honey! It’s got good, stringy blobs of cheese! It’s not packed with obscure veggies! THERE’S MEAT!
I mean, we (ehhmm, I) love froofroo lasagna, but this is not the day for my next food blogger ingredient-bomb lasagna with 800 types of roasted vegetables and five super expensive cheeses.
No no, friends.
This is SUPER EASY ONE POT LASAGNA. And that’s just all there is to it.
How To Make Our One Pot Lasagna:
There’s most definitely a lasagna story with this recipe.
The story starts with me thinking of good ideas for a recipe and getting excited about lasagna rolls // buying ingredients to make lasagna rolls // feeling really super BLEH about boiling noodles, and making filling, and ROLLING SAUCE INTO NOODLES while trying to not make an epic mess.
Cute, but lemme think for two seconds: no.
The lasagna story continues with me feeling a lot better about ditching my putsy lasagna roll idea and just going straight for the goods by dumping my formerly lasagna roll ingredients (bolognese! noodles! cheese!) into a large pot, and baking it all till bubbly and perfect, and eating huge messy pieces straight out of the pot with a wooden spoon.
Except I never did that everrrr.
Ahem.
The story ends with me realizing I secretly love this type of messy, saucy lasagna // secretly feeling nervous to share the pasta-cheese mess on the internet // but knowing that people love good food, and THIS IS GOOD FOOD, and so the world needs this lasagna-mess-ness to exist.
The story also includes a SnapChat recipe video and Sage’s approval.
Moral of the story: laziness is a virtue that leads to one pot lasagnas? Yes. That’s totally it.
Second moral of the story: if you love yourself, and you love good food, you should always keep a few jars of DeLallo Pomodoro Fresco tomato sauce on hand.
I am recommending the DeLallo Pomodoro Fresco sauces in this recipe because a) dem sauces taste really, really good, like, I don’t even really want to make my own sauce because they’re that good, b) they’re ready to use! no work! repeat: no work. and c) there are just 7 normal, simple ingredients in them which is becoming more and more important to me these days.
This is the ingredient list from the Tomato Basil sauce —
- Italian Plum Tomatoes
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Crushed Tomatoes
- Onions
- Carrots
- Basil
- Salt
Beautiful. Bonus: I spy no added sugar.
As a person who is trying trying trying to be more aware of what they eat and avoid the super processed stuff and also acknowledge REAL LIFE IS REAL, having such a high quality store bought tomato sauce on hand is a must for me.
Because –> this awaits. ♡ Say no more.
Super Easy One Pot Lasagna
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
Description
This Super Easy One Pot Lasagna uses simple ingredients and can be made all in one pot! With ground beef, tomato sauce, and fresh Mozzarella cheese.
Ingredients
- 6–8 slices bacon, cut into small pieces
- 3 shallots, minced
- 3 carrots, minced
- 1 lb. ground beef
- a good sprinkling of salt and pepper
- 1 25 ounce jar DeLallo Pomodoro Fresco Tomato Basil sauce
- 1/2 cup dry red wine (optional – can replace with broth or water)
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 4 ounces DeLallo whole wheat no-boil lasagna noodles
- 6–8 ounces fresh mozzarella
- fresh basil and Parmesan cheese for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In a large ovenproof skillet, brown the bacon until crispy. Add the shallots and carrot; saute for 5 minutes or until soft and fragrant. Add the ground beef with salt and pepper and brown until no longer pink. Drain off all the excess grease.
- Add the tomato sauce and wine to the meat in the skillet. Simmer for 10 minutes over medium low heat. Stir in the cream cheese until melted.
- Break each of the lasagna noodles into 3 or 4 pieces. Stir them into the meat mixture so they are completely covered in sauce, and arrange them so that they are all laying flat in the pan.
- Tuck a few slices of fresh mozzarella underneath and between the noodles, and place the remaining slices of fresh mozzarella on top. Bake for 25 minutes. If you want to brown the cheese, turn the heat up to 425 for an additional 10 minutes.
- Let stand for 5-10 minutes and top with fresh basil and Parmesan cheese.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: Italian
Keywords: one pot lasagna, lasagna recipe, easy lasagna recipe
Thank you again to DeLallo for sponsoring this post!
One More Thing!
This recipe is part of our easy Italian-inspired recipes page. Check it out!
Would this freeze well? If so, at what point in the recipe?
Ok. I’ve been using this recipe for years…I need to leave a review. First used it fall of 2015, and it’s a go to for group camping trips in my family.
Years ago, bought a VW bus with plans to travel and camp out of it. I needed easy, Dutch oven recipes to cook on the camp stove. I found this recipe and it’s become a fan favorite everywhere.
I’ve used the Dutch oven on the camp stove, and in the camp fire, but the fire needs a much closer eye. I buy precooked bacon, match-stick carrots, and everything packs into a cooler well. People have gotten into this mindset that camping equals hot dogs. When people walk past our campsite, there are ALWAYS questions followed by amazement.
All our friends who’ve tried it, gobble it up and ask for the recipe.
It’s given a whole new vibe to our outdoor meals.
Made this tonight and it was a hit! Very tasty. Will definitely be making again.
Where do you get the Delallo sauce from? The one pot Lasagna looks very good and I will make it when my company comes. Thanks
Some stores carry it, but you can also buy it online!
This was absolutely delicious!! It’s definitely going to become a regular in my house.
My only suggestion has nothing to do with the final product and instead in the way the ingredients list is written. For the carrots, shallots and bacon could you add weight or cup measurements as well as the number of each required? Carrots and shallots can vary in size quite a lot (eg. I only used 1 extra large carrot) and Australian bacon is slightly different to American bacon, so I’d love more specific weight or cup measurements to make sure I’m using the right amounts.
Excellent recipe!
This is incredibly delicious! Our family eats it up each time. Thank you for a simple recipe that is so yummy! When I’m a hurry I just use bacon grease that I’ve saved to cook the carrots and shallots in! Saves a step, thanks again!
So delicious! We don’t usually eat much pasta, but decided to try this. So easy, one pot and done! Making this again tonight, this time I am adding some fresh basil before I bake it….thanks!
Had suspicions, but trying everything I can with my used Le creuset, and holy cow! Perfect deliciousness. Thank you!
Exactly how many noodles would 4 oz be?
I made this lasagna for my family last night and it was so easy to make and so delicious! I can’t wait to try one more of your recipes. Thanks for sharing!
This recipe looks good !
Recipe looks wonderful.
Looks delicious and easy to make will definitely try one pot Lasgna
Good not great and absolutely not super easy. I will keep the meat sauce part of the recipe, but the noodles didn’t get done to my liking.
I HATE lasagna but this…this was AMAZING!! You’ve made a believer, at least for this lasagna recipe!!
I would like to know if I can make this recipe with regular lasagna pasta please.Thank you!
Yes, that should work out just fine!
Omg! So good! I got my first Dutch oven for Christmas so I’ve been all about the one pot recipes. I’m fairly new in the kitchen, but this was easy and so good! I will say, mine came out a bit runnier than the picture. I wonder what I did! Any advice would be helpful 🙂
Also to note, I didn’t use the recommended sauce because I couldn’t find it near me in Canada!
Thanks so much!!
This is now my go-to potluck recipe. I use 1/2 Italian sausage and 1/2 hamburger simply because I’m not a huge hamburger fan and we love Italian sausage. We especially love using fresh mozzarella. And that fresh basil!! It’s always a hit.
I like this recipe, but note the lack of minced onion and garlic….and I prefer Prego garlic and sausage marinara. I will give this a try.
This is the only way I’ll ever make lasagna again! Ridiculously delicious.
Not nearly enough moisture to cook the noodles. Ate crunchy lasagna. Sauce was great, though; should’ve stopped there.
This was SO delicious. It’s not easy to find ricotta where I live, but cream cheese is usually available, and of course it was creamy and delicious!
Thanks for sharing, Maggie!
This is one of my top 5 favorite recipes. Ever. I make this over and over!
Glad to hear it, Mackenzie!
So the recipe original states one pot.. everything made in one pot.. great ., I am looking at the photo which is clearly an enameled Dutch oven maybe 5 quart .. yet the recipe instructions use a skillet .. big difference.. and the assembly of the one pot is done in a skillet ( which is poor) please rewrite this as the 2 vessels are totally different..
Hi, Francoise! It’s actually all made in one dish here – you can use a skillet or a Dutch oven. Up to you! 😉