Lasagna Singles (Muffin Sized)
Recipe: #5058
March 29, 2012
Categories: Sauce, Tomato/Red Sauces, Side Dishes, Ground Beef, Tomato, Appetizers, 5 Ingredients Or Less, Baby Shower, Birthday, Brunch, Potluck, Oven Bake, more
"This little recipe is more process than product, since you can vary the ingredients to fit the occasion or the taste buds. Make a dozen to feed four or a hundred to feed a group. Try them with chicken or use a vegetable filling for a meatless meal. Let the kids cook a tasty dinner. Good for a portable lunch, a potluck, a buffet, or a family meal with a green vegetable or salad and thin, crunchy bread sticks."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (95.5 g)
- Calories 244.1
- Total Fat - 9.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.1 g
- Cholesterol - 45.8 mg
- Sodium - 403.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 20.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.8 g
- Sugars - 0.7 g
- Protein - 17.4 g
- Calcium - 153.3 mg
- Iron - 2.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Set out the ingredients so assembly will be quick. If the Won Tons are square, trim the corners or cut with a cookie cutter for more even baking. Ends that stick up will be overcooked.
Step 2
To assemble, spray muffin tins very lightly with vegetable or olive oil spray and drop a dime sized bit of Marinara in the bottom of each cup.
Step 3
Place one Won Ton in each cup, gently fitting it to the sides and bottom.
Step 4
Layer, in order, one tablespoon of cooked beef, one tablespoon of Mozzarella, and one tablespoon of Marinara.
Step 5
Repeat the layers, beginning with a second Won Ton and topping it with beef, Mozzarella, and Marinara. Top the whole muffin with 1/2 teaspoon of Parmesan.
Step 6
Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 7-8 minutes until the cheese is melted and the wrapper is golden but not brown.
Step 7
Cool slightly and remove from the pan. Serve hot or cool completely and refrigerate until ready to reheat. Depending on the number of muffins, reheat at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-3 minutes.
Step 8
For a vegetarian version, saute a mixture of chopped onions, zucchini, and mushrooms with some oregano and basil and substitute the vegetables for the beef in the recipe above.
Step 9
To use the wrappers that are left over (fresh or frozen and thawed): fry them briefly and dust with cinnamon sugar or a salt and cajun spice mix, blind bake extra cups in a mini-muffin pan for appetizer quiches or to hold baked eggs, bake or fry strips to top a salad.
Tips
No special items needed.