Eggplant Beef Lasagna Low Carb If you are Anti Atkin's please do not comment.
Eggplant Beef Lasagna Low Carb (and no it does not use pasta)
This lasagna actually very easy and a no brain-er. It also makes "enough to feed an army" so you need to be careful to measure the carbs in the ingredients you use before you put it all together.
I use one large eggplant sliced thinly 1 pound=23 carbs 3.7 fiber, 2 pounds 10% lean beef, one 2 pound 13 oz jar Ragu Traditional with 80 grams carb 20 fiber, one pound cheddar 16 carbs, one pound Monterey Jack I usually use Kraft as they claim it has no carbs but most others are 16/pound. So your total of carbs would be 135 for the entire pan.
The pan I use is 10 x 14 inches x 2. I need a deeper pan. I get 12 servings from this. These are decent sized servings. About 3.5 x 3.3. I have been known to double up on the beef before too but the pan tries to over flow if I do that. Each serving has a total of 11.3 carbs with 2.3 of that being fiber.
First brown the ground beef. Do not drain off the juice. Line your baking pan with slices of eggplant. Put a layer of ground beef on top of it. Pour a thin layer of spaghetti sauce on top of the ground beef. Put cheese of your choice in a layer over that. Repeat. Cover with tented foil. I usually get 2 layers. The reason you do not drain the beef is so the eggplant doesn't stick and you have a little fat. Bake on 350 F for an hour.
I'm sorry is this is not a very exact recipe but I do a fair amount of improvisation with my cooking. I'm with Garfield and lasagna being "nature's most perfect food". I missed lasagna very much. If you try this and like it please let me know. If you think it sucks then I apologize. Enjoy! Blessed Be, Angelique
This lasagna actually very easy and a no brain-er. It also makes "enough to feed an army" so you need to be careful to measure the carbs in the ingredients you use before you put it all together.
I use one large eggplant sliced thinly 1 pound=23 carbs 3.7 fiber, 2 pounds 10% lean beef, one 2 pound 13 oz jar Ragu Traditional with 80 grams carb 20 fiber, one pound cheddar 16 carbs, one pound Monterey Jack I usually use Kraft as they claim it has no carbs but most others are 16/pound. So your total of carbs would be 135 for the entire pan.
The pan I use is 10 x 14 inches x 2. I need a deeper pan. I get 12 servings from this. These are decent sized servings. About 3.5 x 3.3. I have been known to double up on the beef before too but the pan tries to over flow if I do that. Each serving has a total of 11.3 carbs with 2.3 of that being fiber.
First brown the ground beef. Do not drain off the juice. Line your baking pan with slices of eggplant. Put a layer of ground beef on top of it. Pour a thin layer of spaghetti sauce on top of the ground beef. Put cheese of your choice in a layer over that. Repeat. Cover with tented foil. I usually get 2 layers. The reason you do not drain the beef is so the eggplant doesn't stick and you have a little fat. Bake on 350 F for an hour.
I'm sorry is this is not a very exact recipe but I do a fair amount of improvisation with my cooking. I'm with Garfield and lasagna being "nature's most perfect food". I missed lasagna very much. If you try this and like it please let me know. If you think it sucks then I apologize. Enjoy! Blessed Be, Angelique