Meat & Veggie Lasagna

Ingredients:

• 1# ground beef
• 1 jar spaghetti sauce
• 1 can chopped tomatoes
• 6 lasagna noodles (I prefer whole wheat)
• 2 small zucchini
• 6 large mushrooms
• small container of cottage cheese
• Romano cheese
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• Italian seasonings (I used a blend of basil and oregano)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

1) Boil water in a large pot, add 6 noodles and cook according to time on box.

2) Brown beef (or meat of choice, if using meat) in a pan, drain and set aside.

3) Mix spaghetti sauce and canned tomatoes together in a large bowl, add a sprinkle of Italian seasonings.  Add meat to sauce.

4) Slice mushrooms and zucchini.  Make sure to cut the zucchini lengthwise (to resemble noodles)

5) Mix cottage cheese, 1/4 cup Romano cheese and Italian seasonings together in a bowl.  Blend with an immersion blender (or whisk until smooth).

6) Layer in a 9" x 12" pan starting with sauce on bottom and ending with sauce and mozzarella cheese on top.

Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.