This is our favorite Easy Homemade Lasagna. It’s layered and layered and filled to the absolute rim with gooey melted cheese and loads of flavor.

Makes enough for one REALLY big layered lasagna or two regular size pans of lasagna. Freeze one, and make the other tonight.

Why You’ll Love this Easy Homemade Lasagna

If your family’s a fan of lasagna, they’ll love this super easy homemade lasagna you’ll be bringing to the dinner table — there are lots of reasons to love this recipe.

Easy – While lasagna might be a little time consuming with all those layers, this is actually an incredible easy lasagna recipe.
Budget Friendly – This recipe is quite budget friendly and easy on the wallet. The recipe itself technically makes two lasagnas so it’s enough for TWO meals!
Convenient – You don’t need new ingredients to make this different style of pancakes.
Make Ahead – This recipe makes either one super tall pan of lasagna OR two regular size pans of lasagna. This allows you to freeze one pan for another busy night! Win win!

Ingredients for Easy Homemade Lasagna

Six ingredients (or less) are all you need to whip up this homemade lasagna. You could technically leave out the spinach but we like it because it’s adding a veggie to the whole casserole.

lasagna noodles – if you don’t have lasagna noodles, you could absolutely substitute any type of pasta in this dish and it will be a lasagna pasta dish!
spaghetti sauce – use homemade spaghetti sauce or jarred spaghetti sauce. Add beef, ground turkey or shredded chicken to change it up.
shredded Cheese – we usually buy an italian cheese blend but we also LOVE it with a Colby Jack cheese blend! Any cheese will do.
frozen spinach – we add frozen spinach to our lasagna to get some veggies into it. This CAN be left out but you won’t be disappointed!
cottage cheese – We use cottage cheese for ease and because we almost always have it, if you’d rather use ricotta or your own filling, go right ahead.
parmesan cheese – fresh parmesan cheese is incredible here, but we typically just use the traditional green can of parmesan.

How to Make Homemade Lasagna

This recipe looks like a challenge but it’s actually super easy!

Boil your noodles and drain.
Layer them in a pan.
Top with the cheese mixture.
Spread the sauce.
Sprinkle the cheese.
Repeat all layers.
And Bake

A more in depth and printable recipe can be found below.

What to serve with homemade lasagna

Anything you’d serve with a pasta dish or spaghetti in particular, will go perfect with this homemade lasagna.

To keep it simple, try this easy poor man’s homemade garlic bread or one of these amazing salads or one of these delicious side dishes.

We highly suggest this Easy Blueberry Spinach Salad or this Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad.

Variations

This easy lasagna dish can be changed up in a bunch of ways to make your own delicious version!

seasonings – add garlic, rosemary, italian seasoning or any variation to up the flavor profile
sauce – make your own homemade tomato sauce or add beef to your sauce to kick up your lasagna. We love adding ground turkey to our recipe.
vegetables – Easily add a layer of vegetables to the lasagna… anything from carrots to spinach, or even beans or corn.
Toppings – Traditionally we top a lasagna with more cheese, because you can’t go wrong with more cheese. But if you want to kick your lasagna up a notch and try something new, drizzle some hot sauce over the top, or crumble some bacon. There are many ways to add more flavor and have some fun with a basic lasagna.

Easy Homemade Lasagna About to go in oven

Storage, Make Ahead and Freezing

This lasagna can easily be made ahead of time, is very easy to store and is definitely made for freezing!

Make-Ahead: Make these ahead of time and easily reheat when ready. Store in refrigerator in covered casserole pan for next day baking or freeze.

Freezer: Freeze prepared lasagna for up to 3 months in a freezer-safe container. When ready to bake the lasagna, remove from freezer, remove lid, cover with tinfoil and bake for 1 hour.

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