Does anyone have a good recipe for Lasagne that has a small amount of Ricotta cheese?

Question

My roommate is not a big fan of ricotta cheese and I want to make her the dishes that I like to make, ie. lasagne, among others. Are there any recipes out there like this?

Answer 1

Very nice of you to look for alternatives to share your favorite meals with your friend.

Replace it with bechamel sauce, That's what Italian Lasagna has in it.


Bechamel Basic Recipe (Besciamella)

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
3/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 quart whole milk
1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
1/16 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

Melt the butter in a 1 1/2 quart saucepan with a heavy bottom. Add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon; cook for 3 minutes over medium-low heat without allowing the flour to take on color.
Meanwhile, heat the milk in a 2-quart pot until it is nearly boiling. Pour the hot milk into the butter-flour mixture, beating constantly with a wire whisk to prevent lumps from forming.

Bring to a boil; cook over medium heat, whisking often, until thick, about 10 minutes. Lower the heat if the sauce sticks to the bottom of the pot.
Season with salt and pepper and, if you like, nutmeg. Use immediately, or cool to room temperature and refrigerate. Makes 1 quart

Answer 2

Moussaka Lasagne

A hybrid of two of my favourite dishes! Moussaka with layers of pasta to make each slice even more filling than ever Looks like a lot of steps but a lot can be done at the same time so shouldn't be as time-consuming as it looks...

1 red pepper, roasted
1 medium eggplant, par-roasted
1 medium potato, par-boiled
1/2 carrot, finely diced
1 large onion, diced
450 g lean organic ground lamb or beef mince
3 diced fresh tomatoes
2 large garlic cloves
1 beef stock cube or lamb stock cube
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1 teaspoon herbes de provence
1/2 teaspoon rock salt
1 teaspoon coarse black pepper
2 ounces olive oil
1 pinch nutmeg
1 pinch cinnamon
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
8 slices lasagna noodles

For Bechamel Sauce

2 1/2 tablespoons plain flour
1/4 cup butter
2 cups hot milk
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
250 g ricotta cheese
2 eggs, beaten

Partially peel the eggplant so it looks striped, cut in 5mm rounds and brush each side with olive oil.
Roast in oven for 15 mins on 400°C.
While this is happening, grill (skin side up, until blackened) the red pepper.
Peel and dice.
Peel and cut potato into 5mm rounds and quickly par-boil so that the outer rim just begins to soften.
Drain potato rounds and pour cold water over to stop them from cooking.
With the remaining olive oil in a large skillet, fry the diced carrot, red pepper, and onion until translucent.
Add the beef or lamb mince and fry.
Add the herbs, stock cube, herbs, salt, black pepper, crushed garlic, diced tomatoes, nutmeg and cinnamon, turn the heat way down after the meat has browned.
Now for the Bechamel Sauce:.
In a small saucepan, mix the flour and butter over a low heat until a thick paste forms.
Making sure it doesn't burn, keep spreading the paste around for a couple mins until the flour cooks off.
Slowly add hot milk little by little, still stirring.
Add parmesan and ricotta, keep stirring.
Let cool for a few minutes before stirring in beaten eggs.
In a lasagne dish, place the potato rounds, then a layer of lasagne pasta.
Next add a layer of eggplant rounds, then half the mince mixture, then the mozzarella.
Add another layer of pasta, eggplant rounds, then the rest of the mince.
Pour the Bechamel sauce over the top, then pop the whole thing in the oven on 400 C for 40 mins or until lightly browned along the edges.
Allow to cool off (this sets the top layer of "custard") for 20 mins before cutting into squares and serving.
I find tabasco sauce goes great with this amazing dish!

Answer 3

Not a recipe per se but have you considered using an alternative to the ricotta such as cottage cheese? Or just using less then your current recipe calls for and perhaps add a bit more mozzarella?

Answer 4

i use 1 tub of ricotta and blend it with 2 eggs,but i have also seen some people use cottage cheese but to me that tends to make it watery.maybe use 1/2 the ricotta and some parm. cheese.

Answer 5

Replace Ricotta cheese with Cottage Cheese. You can also just use one side of it with Ricottta , and the other side with a different cheese.

Answer 6

Use cottage cheese instead of ricotta just add a pinch of nutmeg it's great.

Answer 7

subitute ricotta for the same amount ,but use small curd cottage cheese ,one egg, one cup of Parmesan cheese. my family didn't care for ricottia so i used this all the time .good luck

Answer 8

Lasagna is not as complex as one might think.

you can fiddle with it a lot.

There is no law reagarding how to make a lasagna. You can remove as much or as lttle ricotta form any reciep and I promise it will taste Ok

Answer 9

Edit: apologies, I misread, I thought you said your roomate WAS a fan.

Just put more of the other cheeses, it'll come out fine.

Answer 10

if you know how to make it already just don't put as much ricotta in it.
just use more mozz. instead.