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sweet potato lasagna on table in white dish with a serving on a spatula

Family-Friendly Sweet Potato Lasagna

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 1 yellow/white onion, diced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 jar spaghetti sauce
  • 1 cup cottage cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 2 big handfuls of spinach
  • 1 bag shredded mozzarella
  • 2-3 large sweet potatoes, sliced thin length-wise
  • Olive oil
  • 1 tbsp Italian seasoning
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400. 
  • Slice sweet potatoes thin length-wise. Dice the onion and mince the garlic. 
  • Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add olive oil, and sauté diced onion for about 5 minutes until beginning to soften. Add garlic, stir and cook for 1 minute. Add ground beef. Stir and cook until no longer pink.
  • While beef cooks, whisk the egg with the cottage cheese. When the beef is cooked, add jar of spaghetti sauce, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper. Stir to combine.
  • To assemble lasagna, start with a layer of sweet potato covering the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Add half of the meat sauce, spread to cover sweet potatoes. Then add half of the cottage cheese/egg mixture, spread so it is an even layer. Add a third of the mozzarella, then repeat that same order one more time. 
  • After your second layer of cheese, add the spinach, and finish off with a final sprinkle of mozzarella cheese. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes. Then, turn off the oven, and leave the lasagna in the oven for 15-20 minutes while the oven cools down. Do not skip this step, your sweet potatoes will not be soft after the initial 45 minutes bake-time. 
    Enjoy!