This is the best low calorie lasagna recipe! Not just because it calls for no-cook lasagna sheets (saving you lots of time and work), but also because it’s low in calories and high in nutrition!
I make all my lasagna recipes easy, and this one just requires a bit of chopping… that’s the extent of the work in making this healthy lasagna!
The best lasagna recipes, in my opinion, call for mascarpone cheese. Which is creamy and delicious, and add a sophistication to lasagna recipes.
You can make this recipe a vegetarian lasagna by swapping out the sausage for 1 cup of diced eggplant. Just be sure to sweat the eggplant before you add it to the mix. (I’ll give directions for that below!)
This is the best lasagna recipe you will ever make… and I give all the credit to mascarpone cheese! Trust me on this, it is amazing!
The BEST Low Calorie Lasagna
In my opinion (and that of many of my thousands of readers) this is the worlds best lasagna!
This vegetable lasagna has a healthy amount of turkey sausage to add protein and lots of flavor. It also infuses the mushrooms and zucchini (which both have a meaty consistency when cooked) with all the wonderful flavors to make what tastes like a meaty lasagna… But is 50% veggies!
Here’s What You’ll Find in the Article:
- Lasagna Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Lasagna
- The Best Lasagna Recipe (printable recipe card!)
You can make this lasagna vegetarian with one quick swap… and I will cover that below!
In the next section I’ll show how to make the best lasagna recipe, and my lasagna vegetable recipe.
Lasagna Ingredients
Ingredients for lasagna vary, but I try to keep them traditional… As an Italian woman I don’t want to anger my ancestors (wink).
One of the ingredients of lasagna you may find out of the norm of the traditional American Lasagna Recipe, is the mascarpone cheese. This traditional lasagna ingredient is what gives this lasagna with zucchini and sausage its signature, traditional flavor. So try it, I guarantee you will never go back!
Another ingredient you may not be familiar with, are the lasagna noodles. I use no-cook lasagna noodles. They will save you time and perhaps even you sanity, as dealing with cooked lasagna noodles is the hardest part of making baked lasagna.
Shopping List for The Best Lasagna Recipe:
- Turkey Italian sausages
- Zucchini
- White mushrooms
- Mascarpone cheese
- Marinara sauce
- No-bake lasagna sheets
- Mozzarella cheese
How to Make Healthy Lasagna
If you want to make this a vegetarian lasagna, I’ve included modifications below.
This lasgne recipe is easy and quick to whip up. All it takes is a little bit of chopping and then a couple minutes of layering.
In this lasagna how to make section I will outline how to make simply recipes lasagna.
How to Make the Best Lasagna Recipe:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- To a large bowl, combine the crumbled sausage, zucchini, mushrooms, and mascarpone cheese. Mix together so the cheese covered all of the ingredients.
- Spread 1/3 cup of marinara to the bottom of a 9×9 casserole dish.
- Layer as follows: 2 lasagna sheets, 1/2 the sausage and veggie mixture, 2 lasagna sheets, 1/3 cup marinara sauce, the remaining sausage and veggie mixture, 2 lasagna sheets, and then the rest of the sauce. Finally cover the top with the mozzarella cheese.
- Cover the lasagna with foil, and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let it rest for 20 minutes (this will keep it from falling apart).
- Cut into 4 pieces and serve.
Lasagna Eggplant Recipe: (Vegetarian Lasagna Modification)
- Chop one cup of eggplant.
- Cover a cookie sheet with paper towels, and spread the egg plant out on them.
- Sprinkle with one tablespoon of salt, cover with more paper towels.
- Let rest and “sweat” for 1 hour (or longer) to remove most of the liquid.
- Use this in place of the sausage in the recipe below.
Now that you know how to make lasagna homemade, and you have your shopping list, let’s get cooking.
The recipe card below will have ingredients, cook times, directions and lasagna nutrition.
The Best Low Calorie Lasagna
This sharable recipe card will have all the information you need to make the best lasagna recipe homemade.
I’ve even included a link for the proper lasagna noodles!
The BEST Low Calorie Lasagna
Ingredients
- 2 turkey Italian sausages cooked and crumbled
- 1 cup zucchini diced
- 1 cup white mushrooms diced
- 1/4 cup mascarpone cheese at room temperature
- 3 cups Marinara sauce
- 6 no-bake lasagna sheets
- 2/3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- To a large bowl, combine the crumbled sausage, zucchini, mushrooms, and mascarpone cheese. Mix together so the cheese covered all of the ingredients.
- Spread 1/3 cup of marinara to the bottom of a 9×9 casserole dish.
- Layer as follows: 2 lasagna sheets, 1/2 the sausage and veggie mixture, 2 lasagna sheets, 1/3 cup marinara sauce, the remaining sausage and veggie mixture, 2 lasagna sheets, and then the rest of the sauce. Finally cover the top with the mozzarella cheese.
- Cover the lasagna with foil, and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let it rest for 20 minutes (this will keep it from falling apart).
- Cut into 4 pieces and serve.
Nutrition
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Article History:
- Originally written and published on September 24, 2020 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on March 12, 2023 by Audrey Johns
