This lasagna pasta is full of your favorite lasagna flavors such as pasta, sausage, cheese, and marinara sauce. It can be made in one pot and takes less than 30 minutes to make which is the perfect amount of time to make dinner! You can serve this dish with a side salad, Texas toast, arugula salad with cherry tomatoes, or my easy cheesy garlic breadstick recipe (which can be found below). This dish is much easier to make than lasagna which requires a bunch of layering.
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How to make Lasagna Pasta
- Boil pasta in large pot of salted water until al dente, drain.
- In a large skillet, brown the ground beef or Italian sausage until fully cooked; drain fat and return the pan to the stove.
- Add cooked pasta to skillet on top of meat, then drizzle on olive oil. Add the sauce, salt, garlic powder, Italian seasonings. Stir. Add cheese and sour cream. Stir over low heat until cheese is melted and all ingredients are combined.
- Taste and add salt and pepper, if necessary. Serve with parmesan or additional mozzarella, if desired.
Tips for Lasagna Pasta
- This Lasagna Pasta Recipe calls for ground beef or Italian sausage. I love Italian sausage with this but other types of protein work as well. You can sub ground chicken or ground turkey to lower the points for the dish.
- Store bought marinara sauce is high in points because of added sugar or olive oil. Make your own zero point marinara. I posted this recipe back in 2014 and back then there were no zero point marinara sauce recipes. I've recently developed my own recipe for Zero Point marinara sauce which can be found here. FYI: The link is for meatball sammies but if you scroll down to the bottom of the recipe you will find the recipe for marinara sauce.
- Plain Greek yogurt can be used instead of sour cream as well.
- If you make this recipe with 93% lean ground beef, plain greek yogurt, and homemade marinara sauce the smart points would be 10 per serving.
- If you make this recipe with 99% lean ground turkey, plain greek yogurt, and homemade marinara sauce the smart points would be 7 per serving.
- As you can see there are many different ways you can make this!
What to serve with Lasagna Pasta
Marinated Cherry Tomatoes with Arugula
Easy Cheesy Garlic Bread Sticks
Texas Toast
Caesar Salad
Sauteed Green Beans
Tools used for this Recipe
How to make Lasagna Pasta Video
Lasagna Pasta
- Prep Time: 5min
- Cook Time: 30min
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
This lasagna pasta is full of your favorite lasagna flavors such as pasta, sausage, cheese, and marinara sauce. The whole dish comes together in under 30 minutes and it only requires one pot!
Ingredients
- 1 lb bowtie pasta
- 1 lb 93% lean ground beef or 99% fat-free turkey
- 1 jar marinara sauce (or 3 cups homemade)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 heaping teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp of crushed red pepper
- 1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup low-fat sour cream or 1 cup plain greek yogurt.
Instructions
- Boil pasta in large pot of salted water until al dente, drain. Set aside.
- In a large skillet, brown the ground beef until fully cooked; drain fat and return to pan.
- Add cooked pasta to skillet on top of the meat. Add the sauce, salt, garlic powder, Italian seasonings, and stir. Add cheese and sour cream. Stir over low heat until cheese is melted and all ingredients are combined.
- Taste and add salt and pepper, if necessary. Serve with parmesan or additional mozzarella, if desired.
- Divide into 8 equal portions or 1 heaping cup per serving
Notes
My WW Personal Points: 13 Click here to see in recipe builder (will have to log in)
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stove Top
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 444
- Sugar: 9.34
- Fat: 10.54
- Saturated Fat: 3.62
- Carbohydrates: 60.32
- Fiber: 3.2
- Protein: 25.75
Keywords: buffalo chicken baked ziti
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with WW in any way. I am just a member who creates recipes based on their points system. To see what the different plans are, check out my post for the new 2020 WW plans.
Bella says
Can I substitute ricotta for mozzarella?
Jenna says
I've reheated pasta in the air fryer before. 350 for about 5 minutes in one of those tinfoil pans or oven-proof dishes. Comes out pretty well and almost tasted like the original.
Charlotte says
Delicious! What is the best way to reheat leftovers though?
★★★★★
Amanda says
Made this dairy-free today with these subs, in case anyone (like me) reads reviews to see if it might work!
Sub Kite Hill ricotta for mozzarella
Sub Kite Hill sour cream for sour cream (I think any df sour cream or df plain greek yogurt would work well here though! I just had this on-hand.)
I used .5 lb italian sausage and .5 lb ground beef. It's AMAZING! Thank you!
Jenna says
Thanks for the review Dustin!
Dustin says
We made this recipe yesterday. We are Soo looking forward to putting it in the oven today. Thank you for sharing your easy to make.
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