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Cooking is something we do everyday in one way or the other. Whether we are making breakfast, lunch or dinner, making a tuna sandwich or baking a cake, we need a recipe to follow. Sometimes we may not think that we are following a written recipe because it is something that is very easy to prepare and we have it memorized, like making a sandwich, but in fact we are still following a recipe even though it is one that is in our subconscious. People are also more health conscious these days. A lot of people are on a healthy diet and they want to cook healthy diet food. Most people know that a complete meal should have every food group such as meat, carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits, and so no. The healthy diet pyramid tells you what should be in your ingredients.

Here is a very good crockpot recipe for a pasta dish main course that consists of ingredients from almost every food group. This pasta dish is chicken lasagna. The name might sound like a simple dish but it is wonderfully tasty. This recipe serves 4 people and takes approximately 5 hours to prepare. It is not hard to make but not too easy either. However, the resulting dish is so tasty that it is well worth the effort.

What you need to Prepare this Chicken Lasagna

You will need approximately 1 pound of cooked, shredded chicken breasts or more if you like more protein than an average 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 a type of vegetables that you really like, such as eggplants, you may add some in your ingredients too but make sure they are finely chopped.

Let the process begin..

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 will mix the cheeses, milk and egg. Grease the crockpot a little. Place 1/4 of the 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 roughly 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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