Italian Sausage and Beef Lasagna

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Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 39 listed

• 1 Tomato
  Fruit of the Solanum lycopersicum plant.
  Safe
• 2 Cooked Pasta
  Wheat-based dough product (typically durum semolina) that has been boiled and hydrated.
  Low
• 3 cooked zesty Italian sausage —
• 4 Ricotta
  A fresh whey-based Italian cheese made by acid-precipitating proteins from cheese-making whey.
  Low
• 5 Whole Milk Mozzarella
  Pasta filata cheese made from whole cow's or buffalo's milk; FDA standard requires minimum milkfat content.
  Low
• 6 Tomato Purée
  Concentrated cooked tomato product with skin and seeds removed.
  Safe
• 7 Minced Beef
  Ground beef from skeletal muscle of cattle (Bos taurus). Fat content varies (typically 5-30%).
  Moderate
• 8 Sausage
  Processed meat product made from ground meat (typically pork, beef, or poultry), fat, salt, spices, and often curing agents (sodium nitrite,…
  Low
• 9 Romano Cheese
  Hard, salty Italian-style cheese typically made from cow, sheep, or goat milk; aged grated cheese.
  Low
• 10 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 11 Rice Starch
  Starch isolated from rice kernels (Oryza sativa) by wet milling.
  Low
• 12 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 13 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 14 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 15 Parmigiano Reggiano
  Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard, granular Italian cheese with PDO protection.
  Low
• 16 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 17 Red Wine
  Alcoholic beverage made from fermented dark-skinned grapes; typically 12-15% ABV.
  Moderate
• 18 Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  Cold-pressed first-extraction olive oil with low free acidity (<0.8%).
  Safe
• 19 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 20 Corn Starch
  Starch isolated from the endosperm of corn kernels. Composed of amylose and amylopectin (glucose polymers).
  Low
• 21 Spinach
  Leafy green vegetable (Spinacia oleracea).
  Safe
• 22 vine-ripened ground tomatoes —
• 23 pear tomatoes —
• 24 Calcium Chloride
  Calcium chloride (E509) is an inorganic salt of calcium and chlorine.
  Low
• 25 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 26 Semolina
  Coarse-ground endosperm of durum wheat; primary ingredient in pasta.
  Low
• 27 Egg White
  The clear protein-rich liquid (albumen) inside chicken eggs.
  Low
• 28 Pork
  Meat from domestic pigs.
  Low
• 29 Whey
  Liquid or dried protein-rich byproduct of cheese making, derived from milk.
  Low
• 30 Cream
  The fat-rich liquid separated from milk. FDA standards of identity (21 CFR 131.150 / 131.155 / 131.157) classify by milkfat content: heavy c…
  Safe
• 31 Vinegar
  Dilute aqueous solution of acetic acid produced by acetic-acid-bacteria fermentation of ethanol from fruit, grain, or other carbohydrate sou…
  Safe
• 32 Milk
  Lacteal secretion from cows or other domesticated ruminants (goats, sheep). Contains water, lactose, milk fat, casein and whey proteins, vit…
  Low
• 33 Lactic Ferments
  Live lactic-acid-producing bacterial cultures (typically Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Leuconostoc) added to milk …
  Low
• 34 Enzyme
  Industrial food enzyme — protein catalysts derived from plants, animals, or microorganisms (often via fermentation), added to food to perfor…
  Low
• 35 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 36 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 37 Cow'S Milk
  Liquid secreted by the mammary glands of cows, used directly or as a base for dairy products.
  Low
• 38 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 39 Wheat Semolina
  Coarsely ground endosperm of durum wheat.
  Low