How to Make All Lasagna Recipes in a Fraction of the Time

If you don't love lasagna, there's something wrong with you. And I don't want to hear that it's because there's a certain ingredient in lasagna recipes that you can't eat or don't like. There are so many varieties of lasagna recipes that everyone can find at least one kind to suit their specific needs and/or preferences.

Contemporary cuisine includes endless adaptations of more traditional recipes (there's really no "original" lasagna, but it's considered standard as a baked dish of layered pasta, tomato sauce, ground beef, and cheeses). Everything from cream sauce lasagnas to seafood lasagnas to vegetable lasagnas to rather bizarre and occasionally questionable interpretations of "lasagna" are readily available in restaurants, as are their recipes in cookbooks.

If you don't love making lasagna, I don't blame you. It's a hassle, even for recipes that tout themselves as easy. Average lasagna recipes call for about an hour of preparation and 45 minutes to an hour of cooking. Deliciousness after a 2 hour ordeal--not such a great deal.

Lasagna is not the most convenient of recipes in other ways besides time required. Recipes generally make a large dish of eight to 10 servings, which isn't ideal when cooking for one or two, or even a family of four or five (unless, of course, you have teenagers). Even serving lasagna can be a pain in the ass. It's messy, and god forbid the lasagna structure isn't entirely cohesive.

Below is the solution to all these lasagna problems. Bury the 2-hour recipes in your backyard and let the worms eat 'em.

Lasagna can finally claim its rightful place at your dinner table more than a few times a year. Lasagna isn't just part of the "recipes for company" file anymore. You can easily make the exact quantity of lasagna you want and not have to worry about the precarious serving, all in 25 minutes!

The shortcut lasagna secret is to prepare and build individual servings, rather than follow recipes that call for baking a whole tray.

What does that mean? Glad you asked. It's amazingly simple. Here's the basic idea, which can be used as a starting point for any lasagna recipes: