Olive Garden Copycat Lasagna

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Olive Garden Copycat Lasagna

Garfield isn't the only cat who loves lasagna. Try this copycat recipe for Olive Garden's classic Italian dish. Olive Garden Copycat Lasagna won't leave you wanting more.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound sweet or salted butter
  • 12 ounces heavy cream
  • White pepper, freshly ground
  • 1 1/2 cup fresh Parmesan, grated
  • 18 (.5-ounce) slices mozzerella cheese
  • 1 pint ricotta cheese
  • 2 ounces Romano cheese, grated
  • 3 ounces mozerella cheese, shredded
  • 2 tablespoons green onions, sliced
  • 2 teaspoons fresh parsley, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 4 cups broccoli florets
  • 2 cups carrots; sliced 1/4-inch, chopped
  • 4 cups mushrooms, sliced 1/4-inch
  • 2 cups red bell peppers, diced
  • 1 cup green bell pepper, diced
  • 1 cup yellow onion, diced
  • 1 cup zucchini, sliced
  • Lasagna strips

Instructions

 

  1. Lay out enough dry lasagna strips in a 9 x 13-inch pan to ensure you have enough to make 3 full layers, with very little overlap on each layer. Remove the dry strips and cook according to package instructions until barely "al dente" and drain.
     
  2. Alfredo Sauce: Heat water to a boil in the bottom of a double boiler. Add butter, cream and pepper to the top pot and heat until butter is completely melted, then stir in Parmesan until melted and blended. Remove top pot and set aside to cool. Divide the sauce into 2 equal portions. Refrigerate 1 portion for use later.
     
  3. Ricotta Cheese Mix: Combine all ingredients and 1 1/4 cups Alfredo Sauce in a bowl and blend thoroughly with a rubber spatula. Set aside at room temperature.
     
  4. Vegetables: Combine all veggies and mix well.
     
  5. Assembly: Coat the bottom and sides of a 9 x 13-inch baking dish with vegetable spray. Lay out cooked lasagna strips (about 4) to cover entire bottom. Spread 1 1/4 cups of the Ricotta mix evenly over the strips. Top with 8 cups of veggie mix and spread out evenly. Lay out 9 of the mozzarella slices to cover the veggie layer.
     
  6. Repeat this layering. Top the second layer of mozzarella slices with lasagna strips and spread them evenly with 1 1/4 cups ricotta cheese mix to finish.
     
  7. Cooking: Spray a sheet of foil with vegetable spray and cover the baking dish tightly with the foil, sprayed side down. Bake in a preheated 375 degree F oven for about an hour or until the internal temp is 165 degrees F.
     
  8. Remove from the oven and allow to sit for a few minutes, covered, before cutting and serving.
     
  9. Immediately prior to serving, heat the reserved portion of Alfredo Sauce and ladle the hot sauce over each slice of lasagna as it is served.

 

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Where does the salt, basil and oregano fit in?

I had lasagna at the Olive Garden and only wish it had these ingredients.

I too have never had my lasagna served with alfredo at olive garden. I have had the lasagna appetizer with the alfredo, however.

I have had Olive Garden Lasagna many times and it has never been made with Alfredo Sauce.

I am more than a bit confused. As I read this recipe, I came to step 3 which says to combine all ingredients, but then it does not REALLY mean all ingredients because then it says in the next step something about the vegetables--but if I have done step 3, the vegetables are already in with everything else. Exactly what is meant in step 3 by "all ingredients"?

For what is supposed to be a copy-cat recipe this bears little resemblence to the item it is copying. I've eaten lasagna at Olive Garden often. This recipe would put me in the ER as I'm HIGHLY allergic to bell peppers.

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