Whether you’re looking for an easy weeknight dinner or need to feed a crowd, this Ravioli Lasagna is perfect!
Using just a few ingredients, it comes together quickly and easily.
This Ravioli Lasagna was inspired by none other than a trip to Costco. Let’s be real: dinner time can be challenging, especially during the school year. Costco makes dinner so much easier with their premade delicious dinners, like Ravioli Lasagna and Mongolian Beef, our favorites.
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With the ravioli casserole, one pan is not enough to feed our family of 7, so I always have to get two, and there are never leftovers. I realized this recipe has only a few base ingredients, like ravioli, cheese, ricotta, and pasta sauce. I knew I could punch this out in a few minutes and then just let it bake.
This incredible dish allows you to combine some of the greatest tastes in Italian cooking into one deliciously easy dinner or meal!
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What Ingredients do you need for Ravioli Lasagna?
While you could make this recipe with 4 ingredients and make this just a cheesy lasagna, I have decided to amp it up a little, adding some Italian sausage, onion, and garlic.
Here is everything you need to get started:
- Italian Sausage – you could also use ground hamburger, but I love the flavor of Italian sausage.
- Onion—I prefer yellow onion; it doesn’t overpower the dish but adds to the flavor. You could easily use any onion you have on hand, including shallots.
- Garlic – I mean, do I need to explain this any further?
- Refrigerated cheese ravioli—You could use any ravioli. I like the cheese one because it has a solid base. What I love about this recipe is that you do not need to cook the ravioli before! This is a time-saver tip!
- Pasta sauce—Our favorite jarred sauce is Rao, which has incredible flavors and tastes homemade. If you want homemade sauce, you can grab a recipe here.
- Mozzarella cheese – I love this finely shredded. It melts better, but if you have time to shred your cheese from the block, it melts prettier and tastes fresh.
- Low-fat ricotta cheese—You could also use full-fat ricotta if you are watching the waste-line sub for small curd cottage cheese.
Do you have to boil refrigerated ravioli before baking?
How to Make Ravioli Lasagna
Once your meat is cooked, this simple lasagna takes a few minutes to assemble. If you leave out this meat, this meal will only take 5-10 minutes to assemble.
The key to this lasagna is all the layers. You really can’t mess this up.
The simplicity and convenience of using pre-made ravioli make ravioli lasagna a quick and easy dish to prepare, perfect for busy weeknights or when you want a satisfying meal without spending too much time in the kitchen.
Just like the classic lasagna, ravioli lasagna stacks up with layers of cooked ravioli, sauce, cheese, and whatever extras you like, such as veggies or meats. Normally, making traditional lasagna means you have to deal with noodles, sauce, and fillings all separately. With ravioli lasagna, you get to skip a few steps by using pre-made ravioli, making the whole process a breeze.
Since ravioli comes pre-stuffed and ready, it cooks up quicker than those traditional lasagna noodles you gotta boil first. Ravioli lasagna’s pretty cool like that. You can mix it up with cheese, meat, or spinach-filled ravioli, pick your sauce, and tweak the fillings and toppings to hit the spot for different tastes and diets.
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Ravioli Lasagna
Ingredients
- 16 ounces Italian Sausage
- 1/2 yellow onion
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 20 ounces refrigerated cheese ravioli easily sub any sort of ravioli
- 28 ounces pasta sauce
- 4 cups mozzerella cheese finely shredded
- 2 cups low-fat ricotta cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- In a large saute pan over medium-high heat cook the sausage, onion, and garlic, until the sausage is all the way cooked through. Drain the grease from the meat and add back to the pan.
- Pour the pasta sauce into the pan and mix together; set aside.
- Spread 1 1/4 cup meaty pasta sauce in an ungreased 13×9 baking dish.
- Layer with half the ravioli, 1 1/4 cups sauce, 1 low-fat ricotta cheese, and top with mozzarella.
- Add the remaining half the ravioli, 1 1/4 cups sauce, 1 low-fat ricotta cheese, and top with mozzarella.
- Add the remaining sauce and mozzarella cheese on top, place in the preheated oven and bake for 30-40 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes, top with fresh basil and parmesan cheese before serving.
You are a genius. This gives me all the flavor of lasagna without all the extra work of layering. I can’t wait to make it!
What a fantastic idea! I need to try this immediately!
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think I’m gonna love this!
Such a fabulous dinner! This is definitely a must make!
I can’t resist to lasagna. Making it from ravioli it’s even better!
Yay, finally! This would make me feel less guilt when eating lasagna! Thank you so much for sharing!
Most delicious lasagna, the sauce especially is amazing!
Made a double batch for friends and family – they ALL raved over it!
This is the perfect dinner especially for through the week. It was amazing!
I’m thrilled with how this turned out! The ravioli were perfectly tender, and the cheese inside melts during baking, creating a wonderfully creamy texture. This is definitely going on our weekly rotation!!
This ravioli lasagna was a delightful twist on the classic lasagna recipe. It was both comforting and satisfying, and definitely a dish I would love to have again.
I just tried making the Ravioli Lasagna, and it was such a clever idea! It was so much easier than traditional lasagna but just as satisfying!
So delish! Can’t wait to have this again for dinner!