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Cooking is something people do daily in one way or the other. Whether we are making breakfast, lunch or dinner, making a tuna sandwich or baking a dessert, we need a recipe to follow. Sometimes we may not think that we are following a written recipe because the food is one that is very simple and we have it memorized, like making a sandwich, but in actual fact we are following a recipe even if it is one that is in our subconscious. People are also more health conscious nowadays. An increasing number of people are on a healthy diet and they prefer to cook healthy diet food. They know that a complete meal should have every food group such as meat, carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits, and so no. The healthy diet pyramid shows you what should be in your ingredients.

Here is a great crockpot recipe for a pasta dish main course that consists of ingredients from almost every food group. This pasta dish is chicken lasagna. It sounds like a simple dish but it is exceptionally delicious. This recipe serves 4 people and takes about 5 hours to prepare. It is not difficult to cook but not that easy either. However, the resulting dish is so tasty that it is well worth the effort.

Ingredients needed for the Chicken Lasagna

You need approximately 1 pound of cooked, shredded chicken breasts or more if you like more protein than a normal person. Then, you need 1 large onion, finely chopped, 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped, 2 jars (17 oz.) of spaghetti sauce, 1 package (18 ounce) “no-cook” lasagna noodles, 1 package (9 oz.) of shredded mozzarella cheese, 1 container (9 oz.) of ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 1/4 cup milk, and 1 egg. Now, if you have a type of vegetables that you really like, such as eggplants, you can add some in your ingredients too but make sure they are finely chopped.

Let the process begin..

First you need to brown the onions, any other vegetables, and garlic in a non-stick pan. Then you will add the spaghetti sauce and mix everything together very well. In a separate bowl, you can mix the cheeses, milk and egg. Grease the crockpot a little. Place 1/4 of the spaghetti meat sauce mixture in the bottom of your crockpot then, 1/3 of a layer of noodles. You can break the noodles to fit your crockpot. After that, you can place roughly 1/3 of the cheese mixture on top. Then, repeat the process of: sauce, noodles, cheese for two more layers. Put the remaining meat sauce on top. Cook in the crockpot on low setting for approximately 6 hours until the noodles are soft.

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