My Best Lasagna

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 medium onion finely chopped
• 5 large cloves garlic minced
• 12 tsp crushed red pepper
• 14 lb ground beef
• 14 lb pork sausage
• 3 Tbsp Contadina tomato paste
• 1 28 oz can Contadina whole tomatoes chopped with juice
• 1 8 oz can Contadina tomato sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 14 tsp crushed thyme
• 2 tsp crushed basil
• 34 tsp crushed oregano
• 12 tsp black pepper
• 12 15 oz carton part-skim Ricotta cheese
• 1 egg well beaten
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• 14 tsp black pepper
• 23 c grated Parmesan cheese divided
• 1 13 c grated Mozzarella cheese divided
• 8 lasagna noodles

Directions

1. Prepare meat
2. sauce
3. In a 3-quart saucepan heat olive oil add
4. chopped onion and saute about 3 minutes
5. Add garlic and red pepper saute 1 minute
6. Add ground beef and sausage Brown meat then drain off fat
7. Add chopped tomatoes paste sauce
8. sugar salt pepper thyme basil and oregano
9. Bring to a
10. boil
11. lower heat
12. and
13. simmer uncovered for about 45 minutes stirring occasionally