deep dish vegetable lasagna

- 1 lb ground beef or turkey (optional)
- ½ tsp minced garlic and ¼ tsp salt
- 1 jar of pasta sauce (preferably chunky vegetable)
- 8 oz tomato sauce
- 16 oz cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- ¼ cup grated parmesan
- 8-9 uncooked lasagna noodles
- sliced zucchini
- spinach*
- 1 lb shredded mozzarella

Preheat oven to 350. Brown meet with garlic and salt, mix in pasta sauce. Mix cottage cheese, egg, basil, oregano, and parmesan in separate bowl. Layer – coat the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish with the tomato sauce, layer noodles, pasta sauce and meet, cottage cheese mixture, ½ the mozzarella, vegetables, noodles, pasta sauce and meet, top with ½ mozzarella. Bake 45-50 minutes.

*you can use any vegetables: eggplant, yellow squash, peppers.