Nutritious Dishes

Cooking is something we do everyday in one way or the other. Whether we are cooking breakfast, lunch or dinner, making a ham sandwich or baking a cake, we need a recipe to follow. Sometimes we may not follow a written recipe because the food is one that is very easy to prepare and we have it memorized, like making a sandwich, but nevertheless we are still following a recipe even if it is one that is in our subconscious. People are also more health conscious nowadays. A large number of people are on a healthy diet and they prefer to cook healthy diet food. They know that a complete meal should have every food group such as meat, carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits, and so no. The healthy diet pyramid shows you what should be in your ingredients.

Here is a wonderful crockpot recipe for a pasta dish main course that consists of ingredients from many food groups. This pasta dish is chicken lasagna. The name might sound like a simple dish but it is very tasty. This recipe serves 4 people and takes approximately 5 hours to prepare. It is not hard to make but not that easy either. However, the end result is so tasty that it is well worth the effort.

Chicken Lasagna Ingredients

You will need about 1 pound of cooked, shredded chicken breasts or more if you like more meat in your lasagna. Then, you need 1 large onion, finely chopped, 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped, 2 jars (17 oz.) of spaghetti sauce, 1 package (18 ounce) “no-cook” lasagna noodles, 1 package (9 oz.) of shredded mozzarella cheese, 1 container (9 oz.) of ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 1/4 cup milk, and 1 egg. Now, if you have your favorite vegetables, such as eggplants, you can add some too but make sure they are finely chopped.

Let the process begin..

First you want to brown the onions, any other vegetables, and garlic in a non-stick pan. Then you can add the spaghetti sauce and mix everything together very well. In a separate bowl, you will mix the cheeses, milk and egg. It is best to grease the crockpot a little. Place 1/4 of the spaghetti meat sauce mixture in the bottom of your crockpot then, 1/3 of a layer of noodles. You can break the noodles so that they fit into your crockpot. After that, you can place about 1/3 of the cheese mixture on top. Then, repeat the process of: sauce, noodles, cheese for two more layers. Put the remaining meat sauce on top. Cook in the crockpot on low for roughly 6 hours until the noodles are soft.