When making lasagna, do you layer the dish with the sauce first, or the noodle?

Question

I've read a couple of recipe which call for starting with the sauce, then the noodle. How do you guys layer?

Answer 1

sauce

Answer 2

When making lasagna, You definitely use the sauce first. Just enough to cover the bottom of the dish whether there is meat in the sauce or not! Personally I learned by simply following the recipe on the lasagna box. I am always amazed at how everyone always compliments the dish. The link attached uses a "Sunday Ragu" sauce, the recipe follows the lasagna recipe. You can use whatever sauce you like, homemade or from a jar. I use the jar and just spice it up myself. You can also find many other lasagna recipes on this site from the simple to the more advanced..good luck, enjoy

Answer 3

Here is my recipe for making lasagna.

************Quick and easy Lasagna

2 containers (15 oz.ea) ricotta cheese
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (about 8 oz.)
½ cup grated Parmesan Cheese
2 eggs
2 jars (1lb. 10oz each) Ragu Old World Style
12 uncooked lasagna noodles

1. Preheat oven to 375. In bowl, combine ricotta cheese, 1 cup mozzarella cheese, ¼ cup Parmesan cheese and eggs.

2. In 13x9 inch baking dish, spread 1 cup pasta sauce. Layer 4 uncooked noodles, then 1 cup pasta sauce and ½ of the ricotta cheese mixture; repeat. Top with remaining 4 uncooked noodles and 2 cups pasta sauce.

3. Cover tightly with aluminum foil and bake 1 hour. Remove foil and sprinkle with remaining cheeses. Bake uncovered an additional 10 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Serve with remaining pasta sauce, heated.

* or use 1 jar (2 lbs. 13 oz..) Ragu Old World Style Pasta Sauce.

VARIATION: For a twist on classic……. Add 1 lb. ground beef or sausage, cooked, to Pasta Sauce.

NOTE: Recipe can be halved. Bake in an 11x7 inch baking dish 1 hour. Continue as above, omitting last 10 minutes of baking.

Answer 4

Sauce first so the bottom layer of noodles won't stick to the pan.

Answer 5

If you put a thin layer of sauce at the bottom, your noodles won't scorch to the bottom of the pan, thus making it easier to scoop the slices out

Answer 6

You need a little layer of sauce first- enough to cover the pan. You don’t want the noodle directly on the pan because it will burn.

Answer 7

Sauce

Answer 8

thin layer of sauce on the bottom...then the noodles. cheese, sauce noodles etc with a layer of sauce on top

Answer 9

To help with clean-up, I usually first spray the pan with a cooking spray, or margarine, or olive oil.

Then, I start with a couple of spoons of sauce & cheese so that the bottom layer is flavored from the top & bottom as all the other pasta.

Answer 10

Sauce.
Noodles, sauce, cheese, repeat.

(the noodle box usually has those directions on it !)

Answer 11

Sauce then noodles.