Have you ever made Cauliflower Lasagna? For a Crowd?
Preparing Big Batch Cauliflower Lasagna for a Crowd
Big Batch Cauliflower Lasagna
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Prepare this Big Batch Cauliflower Lasagna for your next party. You will need all 3 pans as it will disappear lickity split! Many variations to fit your all your guests wishes.
Author: Shelley Zurek
Recipe type: Healthy
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 36
Ingredients
- 3 lb. ground meat (beef, chicken, turkey or vegan ground meat subsititue) browned and drained
- 3 16oz cans of tomato sauce (or 6 8oz cans)
- 3 small chopped onions or 3 tbs dried minced onions
- 1½ tsp. garlic salt
- 1½ tsp. oregano
- 16 oz portabello mushrooms chopped
- 3 16oz containers cottage cheese (small or large curd, regular or lowfat your choice)
- 3 heads of cauliflower with green stem and leaves removed
- 16 oz bag of shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Over medium heat, in a large frying pan or dutch oven, mix browned meat, spices
- Add in tomato sauce and sliced mushrooms
- Simmer until hot
- Slice 3 whole cauliflowers heads into slices about ½" thick. Any smaller pieces that fall off head, slice them ½" thick as well
- Use cauliflower slices to cover the bottom of 3 13" x 9" pans
- Cover cauliflower with cottage cheese using one container per pan
- Add ⅓ of meat mixture to each pan spreading over cottage cheese
- Sprinkle ⅓ of mozzarella cheese over each pan
- Bake one hour at 350 degrees. Check every twenty minutes. If browning too quickly, cover pan with aluminum foil.
- When removing from oven, you will probably need to drain liquid from each pan.
- Let sit 5 minutes before serving.
- Refrigerate or freeze leftovers. (Freezes great!)
- Variations: Feel free to add the cheese of your choice instead of mozzarella. Add in spinach. Omit mushrooms. This is a dish that you can change up to your preference. Have fun!
No one will be able to resist this healthy (substitute lasagna noodles with cauliflower) cauliflower lasagna and it’s so easy to make in big batches. Freeze it ahead of time and just pull out a pan for dinner. Perfect for meal prep or taking in your lunch. Heats up fabulously in microwave.
Walt can eat a half of a pan himself!
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I tried this recipe as cauliflower is our family’s favorite and it was hit. thank you.
This sounds really good and healthier than old school lasagna.
Great recipe. I love cauliflower!
Thanks for sharing this healthy recipe.
Yum!
I’m doing some meal planning for the next few days, & I have the ingredients on hand to try making a 1/3 batch of this – it looks incredible!
I gave it 3 stars because I am not a huge fan of cauliflower. I would try it and perhaps not even taste the cauliflower and like it.
looks good, thanks for sharing
I have never tried the cauliflower in lasagna. I have heard of it, just not tried it. I would imagine cauliflower would be different but would fully absorb the flavors. It looks really good.
Hell yeah! I’d binge eat this, nice flour alternative.. cauliflower is nice.
Wow! Cauliflower lasagna is new to me, but it would certainly be something I would want to try. My entire family loves cauliflower, even me 2 1/2 year old daughter. This is certainly a great way to enjoy our lasagna and get some veggies in our meal.
What a great healthy option and it looks gluten-free too!
With us going low carb I’ve been trying to think of ways to take our favorite old meals and make them healthy for her diet. This gives me hope!
My husband and I are trying to eat more healthy and this would be great to add to our health recipe list! Thanks for sharing Shelley!
I love Cauliflower Lasagna. I had it once before.
This looks so delicious. All the taste of lasagna without the noodles. I’ve seen dishes like this with broccoli but I like the look better with cauliflower. I’m always open to new recipes with veggies.
I don’t eat cauliflower, but it does look attractive!
I so want to try this! Looks yummy!
Haven’t managed to try this yet. Well, haven’t had to make a big batch of anything of late, for one. Also, I didn’t like cauliflower at all when I was young, and I’m probably subconsciously trying to convince myself that I’ll like this much of it. I’ve conquered many of my food aversions, but since no one in my family is a huge cauliflower eater, I’ve managed to avoid it! But one of thee days….
I love this recipe, Shelley! I am vegetarian and my daughter is vegan. The rest of the family are meat eaters so I can make this two different ways and still give a pan away. Love it!
YOu will love it Deborah. SHelley