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Cooking is something people do everyday in one way or the other. Whether we are making breakfast, lunch or dinner, making a tuna sandwich or baking a cookie, we need a recipe to follow. There are times we may not follow a written recipe because it is something that is very easy to make and we have it memorized, like making a sandwich, but nevertheless we are following a recipe even if it is one that is in our subconscious. People are also more health conscious nowadays. More and more people are on a healthy diet and they prefer to cook healthy diet food. They know that a complete meal should have every food group including meat, carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits, and so no. The healthy diet pyramid shows you what should be in your ingredients.

Here is a great crockpot recipe for a pasta dish main course that consists of ingredients from almost every food group. This pasta dish is chicken lasagna. It sounds like a simple dish but it is very delicious. It serves 4 people and takes about 5 hours to prepare. It is not difficult to cook but not very easy either. However, the resulting dish is so tasty that it is well worth the effort.

Chicken Lasagna Ingredients

You will need about 1 pound of cooked, shredded chicken breasts or more if you are a protein person. Then, you need 1 large onion, finely chopped, 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped, 2 jars (17 oz.) of spaghetti sauce, 1 package (18 ounce) “no-cook” lasagna noodles, 1 package (9 oz.) of shredded mozzarella cheese, 1 container (9 oz.) of ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 1/4 cup milk, and 1 egg. Now, if you have your favorite vegetables, such as eggplants, you may add some too but make sure they are finely chopped.

Let’s Start Cooking!

First you want to brown the onions, any other vegetables, and garlic in a non-stick pan. Then you can add the spaghetti sauce and mix everything together very well. In a separate bowl, you can mix the cheeses, milk and egg. Grease the crockpot a little. Place 1/4 of the spaghetti meat sauce mixture in the bottom of the crockpot then, 1/3 of a layer of noodles. You can break the noodles so that they fit into your crockpot. After that, you can place approximately 1/3 of the cheese mixture on top. Then, repeat the process of: sauce, noodles, cheese for two more layers. Put the remaining meat sauce on top. Cook in the crockpot on low setting for approximately 6 hours until the noodles are soft.

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