Sausage Spinach Lasagna

9 whole grain lasagna noodles, uncooked

1 lb turkey Italian sausage, browned – look for the lowest amount of fat possible!

10 oz frozen spinach, thawed and drained

3 cans petite diced Italian seasoned tomatoes

1 can tomato sauce

1 T dried basil

1 T sugar

24 oz container fat free cottage cheese

1 egg white

¼ c grated parmesan cheese

2 c mozzarella cheese

Combine spinach, sausage, tomatoes, basil and sugar and allow to simmer for 10 minutes.  Combine the cottage cheese, egg white and parmesan in a bowl.  Pour the tomato sauce in the bottom of a well sprayed 9 x 13 pan.  Cover with 3 noodles.  Then cover that with 1/2 of the sausage mixture and 1 c of cheese.  Then 3 more noodles and then the cottage cheese mixture.  Then the last three noodles, the rest of the sausage mixture and the rest of the cheese.  Makes 8 – 10 servings.

Cover with a sprayed piece of foil and bake at 375 for one hour.  You may want to place a pan on the rack below the lasagna in the oven – it has a tendency to overflow.  J

You could easily make this meatless - substitute kidney beans or garbanzo beans for the sausage.