Warm and hearty, this simple Cheesy Spinach Lasagna recipe is perfect comfort food for any time of year!
Back in January, I reviewed one of America’s Test Kitchen’s newest cookbooks, What Good Cooks Know, and I mentioned then that I couldn’t decide between a couple of recipes to try. At the time I went with the bakery style lemon poppy seed muffins.
Well, this lasagna was the other recipe that I was really interested in trying. There’s just something about a steaming dish of lasagna that is the quintessential comfort food! So, if there’s an opportunity to try a new lasagna, we’re not going to pass it up!
That, and I was intrigued by the simple homemade tomato sauce that it used. As much as we would like to, we all don’t always have the time to chop a bunch of tomatoes and make our own pasta sauce completely from scratch!
This recipe starts with canned tomatoes and adds in onion, garlic, oregano, and a bit of red pepper flakes. I thought it needed a little more and added in fresh parsley, spinach, and more red pepper flakes to amp up the flavor.
I really liked having the bits of tomato to bite into instead of having a completely smooth sauce. Between that and the spinach, the flavor was a lot fresher than a typical lasagna using jarred pasta sauce.
I also used more cheese. Because, around here, we don’t skimp on cheese! I also really wanted to be able to taste the Parmesan on the top layer of cheese. That slight nutty flavor gives more flavor than just a plain mozzarella layer.
The end result was a hearty, comforting pasta dish that tastes like you spent more time on it than you actually did!
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Cheesy Spinach Lasagna
Ingredients
For the Tomato Sauce
For the Lasagna
Instructions
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This recipe is adapted from What Good Cooks Know.
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Kelly says
Lasagna is the ultimate comfort dish! This cheesy spinach version looks delicious!
Ashley@CookNourishBliss says
I so agree! Lasagna is such awesome comfort food! This looks fantastic!!
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen says
Girl, this looks divine! I absolutely love cheese lasagna and now I’m craving it like nobody’s business. I’ll have to make this recipe happen soon. Have a great weekend!
marcie says
Lasagna is just one of those foods that’s always a hit, and I don’t believe in skimping on the cheese either. This looks perfectly cheesy and delicious!
allie says
Cheesy and delish! Love a fresher lasagna- gotta try this. Those red pepper flakes must give it a little zip too. I’m all for the cheese overload. Bring. It. ON!!!!!
Julie @ Running in a Skirt says
Cheesy lasagna is one of my all-time favorite dishes. Your version looks so bright and tasty!
Liz says
This would be a hit at our house, too!!! Love the double dose of cheese and the spinach—it sounds perfect!
Pamela @BrooklynFarmGirl says
It looks so delicious I have to make this lasagna!
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
ooooh I love it!! This is the best way to get spinach in my diet, in my opinion ;P