Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup - Traditional - Dump and Go Dinner
6
Servings
14
Ingredients
16
Comments
This Lasagna Soup is a dump and go meal, requiring no prep. It cooks in the slow cooker, making it a perfect meal when you have a busy day. Lasagna as you know it will never be the same!
6
Servings
14
Ingredients
16
Comments
Ingredients
- 1 pound Ground Beef
- 3 cups Beef Bone Broth/Stock
- 4 teaspoons mince Garlic, Cloves
- 1 tablespoon Parsley, Dried
- 1 tablespoon Basil, Dried
- ½ cups dice Onion
- 28 ounces Diced Tomatoes, Canned
- 6 ounces Tomato Paste
- 8 fluid ounces Vegetable Juice
- ¼ teaspoons Salt
- ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
- 1 cup Water
- 8 ounces Elbows
- 1 ½ cups Mozzarella Cheese, Shredded
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
Easy Assembly/Dump and Go
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- Combine all ingredients in indicated number of gallon size freezer bags.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
Slow Cooker
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- Thaw: In fridge
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- Place all ingredients in slow cooker, except the water and pasta.
- Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours or on high for 4-5 hours.
- When approximately 30 minutes remain, add pasta and indicated amount of water. Stir and cook the remaining amount of time.
- Add cheese and serve.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe
- 6 Servings
- Serving Size
- about 2 cups Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 443
- Total Fat
- 15g
- Saturated Fat
- 7g
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 74mg
- Sodium
- 1118mg
- Total Carbohydrates
- 44g
- Fiber
- 4g
- Sugar
- 10g
- Protein
- 30g
- WW Freestyle
- 11
16 Comments
Join the discussionVegetable juice? Like V8? Any suggestions for something more commonly used? I’m thinking tomato sauce…
Yes, vegetable juice – V8 works. You could try tomato juice as well š
Do you cook the ground beef first or add raw to the crock pot?
Rachel, the ground beef should be cooked prior to adding to the slow cooker!
Rachel, you are totally right to ask – this should be clarified. It doesn’t say anywhere to brown the beef before putting in the crock pot or before assembly for freezing.
This recipe actually does NOT need to have the ground beef cooked before freezing/making. The long cook time will cook the beef over the course of the cook time. We have this recipe in Instant Pot version as well and those versions use COOKED beef because the pasta is in the pot at the same time and the pasta would be mush if we needed to cook the ground beef from raw. With that said, you could certainly use cooked beef in it anyway and it would turn out just as good.
Thanks for the reply, Tricia! Should the uncooked beef be broken up a bit in the bag, or does that matter?
Hi Crystal! The ground beef will get broken up in the slow cooker as it cooks anyway, so it’s not important to have it broken up before freezing. I always find it helps with defrosting though to have it in a couple chunks rather than one big block.
How come recipe is listed as kosher, when it has both meat and cheese in the ingredients?
Our apologies! This isn’t kosher. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Your directions call for using TWO frozen bags, but you don’t specify what ingredients go into EACH of them…please clarify, thanks! š
Hi Karen,
We plan on 4 servings in a gallon bag. So our system scales up for this recipe since it has 6 servings. If you can fit those into 1 bag – then you could just use 1 bag. You are just freezing the ingredients together in the bags for the soup – so it doesn’t matter what goes into what bag (if you do decide to split them into 2 bags).
Iām confused , so if you intend to freeze you just add ingredients without cooking at all ?
Correct. This version allows you to freeze without any prep work. Then it cooks in the slow cooker on the serving day. Keep in mind – this is freezer cooking website – to maximize efficiency one would create a meal plan. Our site also provides the resources for that meal plan (prep sheets, grocery list, and recipe cards) to prepare that meal plan- instead of one recipe at a time.
Is the pasta cooked or uncooked?
The pasta is uncooked. However, I have cooked it ahead of time and just added that without the additional water and stirred in the noodles to save additional cooking time/ steps. It just depends on how my day is looking, etc. So that is up to you- if you add it already cooked I would just skip the additional water.