Lasagna Bites is a spin on your traditional lasagna recipe. These mini lasagna cups make an amazing party appetizer or just a fun new way to make lasagna for dinner.
Sometimes when dealing with picky kids you have to try and make mealtime fun. For some reason, my kids don't like to eat traditional lasagna but still decided to give lasagna bites a try.
I changed 2 things (from my normal lasagna cups recipes). I eliminated the lasagna noodles and used wonton wrappers and I also used ground turkey instead of ground beef.
How To Make Lasagna Bites with Wonton Wraps
In a large skillet over medium heat cook your meat, and mix with the marinara sauce. Make your cheese mixture. In a muffin tin, with cooking spray or oil layer the wontons, meat, and cheese till you get to the top of your tin.
Swapping out the lasagna noodles for wonton wraps, in these bite-size lasagna cups, cut out the step of having to boil noodles. As for the meat used, you can use whatever you like.
Italian sausage or even a meat substitute work amazingly also.
What Do I Need To Make Lasagna Cups
- spaghetti sauce
- salt and pepper
- cottage or ricotta cheese
- meat of choice
- garlic powder
- basil
- mozzarella cheese
Had my kids know that this wasn't beef that I used to make my meat sauce, they would have never touched these, but they couldn't tell the difference so it worked out in my favor.
You can substitute the cottage cheese in this recipe and use ricotta cheese. The ricotta mixture tastes amazing in these lasagna cups too!
My 5-year-old ate 4. My dad and brothers and my Grammie were also here and they loved it also. I just kept hearing how good Lasagna bites are.
Lasagna is already a favorite in most homes. And making them into bites makes it that much more amazing. These Lasagna Bites make for a great party appetizer.
They look like you spent hours making them when in reality this recipe is pretty fast and easy to make. You can also use single muffin cups in stead of a muffin tin but I personally find the muffin tin a lot easier to use for this recipe.
Other Lasagna Recipes To Try Out
Lasagna Bites Recipe
I made these for the first time a few weeks ago. For some reason my kids don't like to eat traditional lasagna, but I thought what the heck I'll five this a shot. My dad and brothers and my Grammie were also here and it was a huge hit.
Ingredients
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 pound Jenny-O ground Italian Style Turkey
- 1 ½, 8 oz jars of your choice pasta sauce (I like Ragu)
- 1 package wonton wrappers
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 tbs of dried basil
- ¼ teaspoon of garlic powder
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Brown ground turkey over medium heat. When it is done add 1 jar of pasta sauce to it and set it aside.
- Mix ½ cup of mozzarella cheese and garlic powder to the cup of cottage cheese.
- Place 2 squares in the bottom of your muffin pan, stagger so the ends do not meet.
- Open the other jar of pasta sauce and spoon in enough to cover your wanton bottom, spoon in about a tablespoon of cottage cheese mixture.
- Now a tablespoon of ground turkey, and a tablespoon of cheese, and repeat till you get to the top. always end with cheese.
- Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until the cheese melts and the edges of the wonton wrappers are brown. Sprinkle on a little basil right out of the oven and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Use a butter knife to carefully loosen the bites and remove them from the pan.
Nutrition Information
Yield
12Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 152Total Fat 7gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 54mgSodium 376mgCarbohydrates 5gFiber 1gSugar 2gProtein 17g
Wilma
What is the serving size? One "muffin"?
Jamela Payne
I am full after 2.