I love Italian food. I really LOVE anything dish with tomatoes. There is nothing better than a good red sauce. I have been working on my family tree the last few months, and am astonished that I don’t have any roots tracing back to Italy. How could that be? I wonder if there is any such thing as an honorary Italian.
Hunt’s® has teamed up with Kraft® for a second year to create 12 new signature recipes featuring Hunt’s® canned tomatoes and Kraft® Parmesan Cheese. Needless to say, when I was asked to share one of these recipes with you, I jumped at the opportunity. I use Hunt’s® diced, stewed and whole tomatoes in my cooking all the time.
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Earlier this week I made Slow Cooker Mushroom Spinach Lasagna, one of the new signature recipes featuring Hunt’s® canned tomatoes and Kraft® Parmesan Cheese. It was so delicious! Plus, it was super easy to make. Slow cooker lasagna is the way to go! I may never make it in the oven again.
Slow Cooker Mushroom Spinach Lasagna
Ingredients:
PAM® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pkg (8 oz each) fresh sliced mushrooms
1 pkg (6 oz each) baby spinach leaves
1 can (14.5 oz each) Hunt’s® Diced Tomatoes with Basil, Garlic and Oregano, undrained
2 cups Hunt’s® Tomato Sauce
1/2 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 container (8 oz each) part-skim ricotta cheese
1/2 cup Kraft® Grated Parmesan Cheese, divided
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
6 dry lasagna noodles, uncooked
1-1/2 cups shredded Italian blend cheese, divided
Directions:
1. Spray inside of 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms; cook 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add spinach; cook 3 minutes more or until mushrooms are tender and spinach is wilted, stirring occasionally. Stir in undrained tomatoes, tomato sauce, Italian seasoning and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, combine ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese and pepper in small bowl; set aside.
2. Spread 3/4 cup sauce mixture over bottom of slow cooker. Layer 3 lasagna noodles over sauce mixture, breaking noodles to fit. Top with 3/4 cup sauce mixture, ricotta cheese mixture and 1 cup Italian cheese. Top with 3/4 cup sauce mixture and remaining 3 lasagna noodles, breaking to fit. Spoon remaining sauce mixture over noodles.
3. Cover; cook on LOW 5 hours or until noodles are tender. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup Italian cheese and remaining 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Cover; let stand 5 minutes or until cheese melts.
Recipe Source: Hunts
The new signature recipes are fantastic and feature a variety of flavors and ingredients. The new recipes include Weeknight Mini Meatloaves, Nacho Macaroni and Cheese Bake, Pesto Pomodoro Chicken, Easy Chicken Parmesan, 30-Minute Chili and more!
I love that Hunt’s® tomato are 100% natural – with no artificial preservatives. Plus, Hunt’s® cans each tomato for the diced, stewed, and whole varieties within hours of picking it from the field, and uses FlashSteam® (a proprietary, natural peeling method using steam from hot water) to peel our tomatoes — similar to how tomatoes are peeled by home canners.
Did you know that October is National Tomato month? Now is the perfect time to try out any of Hunt’s® recipes. The new recipes available at Hunts.com make it so easy for you to prepare delicious food. You don’t have to be a master chef to create great meals that your family will love.
Slow Cooker Mushroom Spinach Lasagna
Ingredients
- PAM® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pkg (8 oz each) fresh sliced mushrooms
- 1 pkg (6 oz each) baby spinach leaves
- 1 can (14.5 oz each) Hunt's® Diced Tomatoes with Basil, Garlic and Oregano, undrained
- 2 cups Hunt's® Tomato Sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 container (8 oz each) part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup Kraft® Grated Parmesan Cheese, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 6 dry lasagna noodles, uncooked
- 1-1/2 cups shredded Italian blend cheese, divided
Instructions
1. Spray inside of 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms; cook 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add spinach; cook 3 minutes more or until mushrooms are tender and spinach is wilted, stirring occasionally. Stir in undrained tomatoes, tomato sauce, Italian seasoning and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, combine ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese and pepper in small bowl; set aside.
2. Spread 3/4 cup sauce mixture over bottom of slow cooker. Layer 3 lasagna noodles over sauce mixture, breaking noodles to fit. Top with 3/4 cup sauce mixture, ricotta cheese mixture and 1 cup Italian cheese. Top with 3/4 cup sauce mixture and remaining 3 lasagna noodles, breaking to fit. Spoon remaining sauce mixture over noodles.
3. Cover; cook on LOW 5 hours or until noodles are tender. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup Italian cheese and remaining 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Cover; let stand 5 minutes or until cheese melts.
This looks delicious. Love recipes for my slow cooker. Will be making this for my family.
Thank you for this recipe! I love using my slow cooker but have been trying to figure out something new to try. I will be giving this a shot. Looks delicious!
Oh my yum! This looks so good! Thanks for sharing!
This will be a great meal for us for our meatless Friday dinner this week. Everyone is going to love it!
I’ve never heard of cooking lasagna in a slow-cooker! I definitely need to try this versus cooking it in my oven!
Slow cooker lasagna is right up my alley. I’m ALL about the slow cooker. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be making this this weekend.
That looks amazing. Anything that you can make in the slow cooker, sounds like a winner to me. I actually need the meat and not the noodles. I think I may attempt to modify this by adding meat, removing noodles and see what happens. Yum!
Agreed. If you can put it in a slow cooker, I love it immediately.
Spinach Lasagna sounds so good right now! Looks awesome!
Oh boy, I’m drooling over here. I love how the cheese is all melted and yummy.
That looks so yummy! Maybe I can convince my boyfriend to make it!
I love when a recipe is designed for a slow cooker, and I love lasagna so this is a win win.
Thanks for the awesome recipes! And for the twitter party invite!
We also love Italian food and anything with tomatoes especially when they’re fresh! Thanks for the recipe. Now I’m hungry and it’s nearly lunch time.
What a fabulous recipe!
This looks like such a delicious recipe for us to make in our slow cooker. Even my little daughter can help me make this one.
That lasagna looks so good. I will try and make the twitter party. Thanks for the recipe.
I have never thought to make lasagna in the slow cooker. What a fantastic idea for a fix it and forget it meal!
I love veggie lasagna! And I had no idea it is tomato month, very interesting!
I’m starving over here looking at that. It looks so easy and so good!
I love crock pot recipes. This looks so delicious i can not wait to try it. This will be perfect for Sunday.
Yum! I’ve made normal lasagna in the slow cooker but veggie? This looks incredible!
That sounds so good. I have never tried lasagna in a crock pot before.
It’s so awesome to find another tasty slow cooker recipe. I’ve never eaten mushrooms in my Lasagna so this will be a treat.
I do love spinach in my lasagna, so I’ll try this. I’m all about slow cooking!
I love slow-cooker lasagna recipes! This one looks absolutely delicious.
That looks so good!!! I love making recipes in the slow cooker. Thanks for sharing.
I haven’t tried slow cooker pasta before. I’ll have to give this a whirl
Totally new pasta for me. Looks and sounds tasty!
That looks so delicious and is perfect for Fall. (I didn’t realize that Oct is tomato month – I love them all year round!)
Great recipe idea, I love the slow cooker makes my life so much easier.
Great and tasty combo. So easy/
I didn’t use my slow cooker much during the summer, but I’m so ready to start crockin’! This looks just delightful and sounds easy enough for weeknights.
I never thought to slow cook a lasagna. I am amazed. Thank you for sharing.
This looks amazing. I have never tried slow cooker lasagna, seems MUCH easier!
Is there anything you can cook in a slow cooker? The mushroom spoil it for me.
I am all about the slow cooker! It makes my life so much easier!
This looks SUPER YUM!! We love using Hunts products for our dishes 🙂
I could live on pasta! Your lasagna looks delicious and it never occurred to me to use a slow cooker! I also don’t usually add tomatoes, but will try that next time! I always use the one you have in my chili!
oh man, that looks SO GOOD! I’m not sure I could even plate it; I would want to sit there and eat it straight out of the crock.
Going to have to try this. I love the hunt’s sauces and best part is they are cheaper than most of your other sauces. Going to have to try this recipe, I love lasagna and haven’t tried making it in the crockpot yet.
I love slow cooker lasagna. Thanks for the recipe.
This looks so good and I will have to make this Lasagna. I did not know that October was tomato months . Thanks for sharing.
Hunts is my go-to because they have a no salt added line of tomatoes and a sugar free variety of sauce. When I am not feeling like making my own or I am out of homemade canned tomatoes these are my picks.
This is so helpful. My daugter loves lasagna. It would help a lot to know I can just put it in the crock pot.
I have wanted to try this for a while now…looks so easy!
I’ve never made lasagna in the crock pot. We haven’t had lasagna in a while. Look so good!
I’d like to try lasagna in the slow cooker. I haven’t done it yet, but I’m wanting to, and soon.
Something like this would be delicious right now! I love spinach and mushrooms!
I just got my slow cooker and I’m amazed at all you can do with it. I’m going to try this one day soon. Thanks for the recipe and amazing tips.
I LOVE using my slow cooker, but have never tried to do lasagna. I’ll have to give this a whirl!
I haven’t tried slow cooker but some of my friends have been telling me to go buy one, seeing your lasagna post, now I want a cooker of my own!
I’ve never tried lasagna in the slow cooker. I’ll have to try this!
Out of all the things I have made in the crockpot, lasagna has not been one of them. I am going to give this a try, just without the mushrooms.
That looks amazing! I love slow cooker recipes.
I thnk i have lasagna noodles that would work for this. It’s looks great
Yum! That looks super simple! My middle LOVES lasagna! i need to try this! Thanks!
We don’t have a slow cooker but I kind of wish now that we do!
I have had lasagna cooked in the slow cooker but I’ve never cooked it myself. I’ll have to try it out though.
Yum, Mushroom Spinach Lasagna sounds great and it looks absolutely delicious. I cannot wait to give this a try. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Now this I am going to have to try! Do you know if the GF noodles would work too?
Great idea to spray the slow cooker first. I might have to try this as using the Hunt’s in the crockpot sounds so much easier!
This looks awesome!!! I love slow cooker recipes. They make dinner so easy!
I cannot wait to cook this dish!!! Thanks for sharing
OMG! That lasagna look so delicious.
This looks amazing!! With my on the go growing family I need all the crock pot recipes I can get!! Thanks Hunt’s!
Anything Hunts, Italian, and Slow Cooker has to be great.
This looks delicious! I love spinach and mushrooms in my lasagna. And making it in a crockpot would be so nice! Definitely pinning to try.
Found you on Showcase Your Talent. Thanks for sharing!
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This looks so good! Pinned. Lou Lou Girls
That’s what I am missing. Italian seasoning. I can still make this even though I don’t have a slow cooker. Just have the burner down really low. :o)
I have never thought about using my slow cooker for lasagna. That is an excellent idea. It looks absolutely delicious.