Four Cheese Tomato Basil Crock Pot Lasagna

This Four Cheese Tomato Basil Crock Pot Lasagna is cheesy, delicious, and super simple to make. It's sure to become your family's favorite!

Lasagna is one of my favorite meals.

It's also one of those meals that you could spend hours preparing, especially if you make a homemade sauce. I've definitely been there, but I'm way to lazy to do that very often.

A couple years ago, I discovered that you can make lasagna in a slow cooker, and it changed my world.

Now, I can enjoy my favorite recipes, like this Four Cheese Tomato Basil Crock Pot Lasagna, as often as I like!

Four Cheese Tomato Basil Crock Pot Lasagna

This recipe couldn't be any easier. To start with, I used a premade pasta sauce and zhoushed it up with fresh basil. Substitute your favorite homemade sauce though, if you wish.

The rich, tasty four cheese filling is made from a mixture of mozzarella, fontina, provolone, and parmesan cheeses, plus ricotta, of course. I didn't count the ricotta as one of the four cheeses, so I guess it's technically five cheese lasagna (even better, right?). This filling takes minutes to make, and all that's required is some stirring and cheese shredding.

Everything gets layered together with lasagna noodles, cooked in the slow cookier, and in a few hours your Four Cheese Tomato Basil Crock Pot Lasagna is ready to enjoy!

Since this recipe is fairly basic, you can have fun customizing it to your taste. Add sauteed or roasted vegetables to the sauce, change up the cheese mixture, or substitute the basil with your favorite herbs. Get creative!

By the way, if you love this recipe, try my Easy Vegetable Lasagna that's made in a slow cooker, too!

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Four Cheese Tomato Basil Crock Pot Lasagna

This Four Cheese Tomato Basil Crock Pot Lasagna is bursting with flavor, yet so simple to make!

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time3 hours hrs 30 minutes mins

Total Time3 hours hrs 45 minutes mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Italian

Servings: 6 servings

Author: Ginnie

Ingredients

• 1 (24-ounce) jar pasta sauce
• handful basil leaves, chopped (plus more for serving)
• 1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese
• ½ cup shredded provolone cheese
• ½ cup shredded fontina cheese
• ⅓ cup shredded parmesan cheese
• 1 (15-ounce) container ricotta cheese
• 1 large egg
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 9 no cook lasagna noodles (I use Barilla)

Instructions

• Stir together pasta sauce and basil leaves, plus ½ cup water. Taste and add salt, if needed. Set aside.
• Mix together mozzarella, provolone, fontina, and parmesan cheeses. Remove ½ cup of the cheese mixture and refrigerate.
• Combine the remaining cheese with the ricotta, egg, garlic, and 1 teaspoon salt.
• Cover the bottom of your crock pot with 1 cup of the sauce.
• Top sauce with 3 noodles, breaking them to fit, if necessary.
• Spread ⅓ of the ricotta mixture over the noodles.
• Cover ricotta with the ⅓ of the remaining sauce. Top sauce with 3 noodles, then another ⅓ of the ricotta. Repeat these layers one more time.
• Pour remaining sauce over lasagna.
• Cover and cook lasagna on medium for 3 ½ to 4 hours, or until noodles are tender. (See note about cooking times.)
• Turn off heat, then top lasagna with reserved ½ cup cheese.
• Recover lasagna, then let sit for 10 minutes.
• Serve immediately, sprinkled with additional basil. Enjoy!

Notes

My crock pot is older and cooks at a lower temperature than many newer models. The first time you make this, I recommend checking the lasagna after an hour. You don't want it to cook so fast that the bottom burns before the noodles are cooked. If necessary, reduce the heat setting after an hour.

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