Mushroom and Chicken Lasagna
I love lasagna since it makes a great one dish meal for the whole family and there are so many different ingredients you can use to change things up.
This is a different kind of lasagna – it's a mushroom and chicken lasagna layered with a delicious homemade tomato sauce with fresh basil, ricotta and mozzarella cheese!
I typically make my lasagna using ground beef but since there was some ground chicken on sale I thought this would be a great opportunity to try making it a little different. Using lean ground chicken for the recipe makes it a little lighter and the flavour is so fantastic!
I made the tomato sauce using a large can of diced tomatoes and some tomato paste, onions, mushrooms and a lovely blend of fragrant Italian herbs and spices. Oh and garlic, I love garlic so I made certain there was some added! I tend to like a lot of garlic but feel free to add more or less depending on your liking.
A lasagna just isn't a lasagna without lots of cheese!
On top of the lasagna sheets I spread a thin layer of light ricotta cheese and then sprinkled with some mozzarella. If you can get your hands on a stretchy version of mozzarella cheese use it in this recipe! It's amazing with stretchy cheese!
Mushroom and chicken lasagna is a great dish for having leftovers. I like to make a large dish of this so we can have an easy meal the next day but most of the time there are no leftovers! 🙂
Mushroom and Chicken Lasagna
- Yield: 6-8 Servings 1x
Ingredients
- Box of oven ready lasagna sheets
- 2 cups chopped onion
- 3–4 cloves of garlic, minced
- 4 cups sliced mushroom
- 1/4 cup fresh basil, torn or cut up
- 1 1/2 tsp Italian herb seasoning
- 1/8 tsp ground sage
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- pinch of salt
- 2 lbs lean ground chicken
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 tsp dried sage (this one is different from the ground kind – it's more “leafy”)
- 2 cups ricotta cheese
- 12 oz tomato paste
- 26 oz can of diced tomatoes
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- In a large skillet cook the ground chicken until no longer pink.
- Drain any excess fat from the pan.
- Add the onions and mushrooms and cook on medium until onions are softened.
- Add the 1/4 cup of water.
- Lower the heat and add the pepper, salt, both kinds of sage, bay leaves, and Italian seasoning. Stir everything so that the herbs are mixed in well.
- Stir in the tomato paste making sure it's coating the contents of the skillet.
- Add the minced garlic, fresh basil and diced tomatoes. Combine well and return heat to medium and let the contents of the skillet bubble up a little while constantly stirring.
- Turn down the heat and let simmer covered for about 10 minutes.
- Turn off the heat on the burner and give the meat sauce a stir.
- Remove the bay leaves from the skillet and discard.
- Pre-heat the oven to 400°F
- Into a 9″ x 12″ glass baking dish put a little of the sauce in the bottom so it's lightly covered.
- Over the sauce, place 4 oven ready lasagna sheets side by side evenly into the dish.
- Using a spoon, spread about 1/2 of the ricotta cheese over the lasagna sheets.
- Over this, sprinkle some of the mozzarella cheese.
- Next, pour some of your sauce over top and spread it around so it's even.
- Then layer lasagna sheets, ricotta, mozzarella then sauce again in that order.
- Add a final layer of lasagna sheets over the sauce.
- Pour the remaining sauce over the lasagna sheets and spread it around so that it's even.
- Over this sprinkle the remaining mozzarella cheese.
- Cover the baking dish with a lid or aluminum foil. Make sure that you “tent” it up a little so that the cheese doesn't stick to the foil. Try to make sure you make a good seal with the foil around the edges of the dish so that moisture doesn't escape while baking.
- Place into the oven and bake for 1 hour. Remove the aluminum foil cover in the last 15 minutes of baking.
- The dish will very very hot once done. Let it stand for about 5 minutes or so before serving so that it settles a bit and stops bubbling.
I’m so hungry for this right now. I prefer chicken over beef and love mushrooms so this is the perfect lasagna recipe. Thank you!
Oh my.. I surely would love to give this a try – looking super yummy!
Oooooooo this sounds delicious!!! My mom use to make something very sonic when I was a kiddo. I may have to pin this so I can make it for old time sake
Yum! This looks so good and healthy! Chicken lasagna, I ever thought of that before.
I absolutely love lasagna, I usually add mushrooms to my veggie lasanga. I haven’t thought to add it to my chicken lasanga
I love lasagna, your chicken lasagna looks really yummy and tasty, thank you for sharing your wonderful recipe I’ll try it.
This looks so delicious. I will have to try making this recipe this weekend. I have never tried to make my own lasagna before.
This would be so fun to make at our house! It would be so perfect for a weekend pot luck dish!
Looks and sounds delicious. Definitely something we would eat in our house. Thanks for the recipe!
Looks so delicious. Mushrooms are a favorite of mine and I always look for ways to get my kids to eat them. This would be interesting to try.
My hubby LOVES lasagna. He will absolutely love this. And he loves mushrooms too. Perfect for him.
I’m a huge fan of lasagna, and cannot believe that I’ve never made it (or eaten it) with chicken in it.Don’t know if I’d like it with mushrooms, though.
Oh yummy! I have never had lasagna with chicken in it! This looks really good. I think the family would like it.
This looks absolutely delicious. I would love to make this!
Love how you have chicken in this recipe instead of hamburger. I gotta try this out with my family. Great recipe.
Ah my gosh this looks so yummy I love lasagna, but I haven’t had it in such a long time. I would love to try this recipe, but I’d probably live the mushroom out and try it with the chicken.
I’ve only ever had normal lasagne before. I’d love to give this a try. Thanks for sharing the recipe 🙂
Another recipe i shall have to add to my list and try out, chicken and mushroom dishes are one of my fav.
My husband loves lasagna. I always makes it for him as left overs doesn’t last. It is also fun to prepare with the kids.
This looks great and I love lasagna. Have never made it with chicken or mushrooms before, but I’ll have to try this!
Definitely a lasagna lover here. I usually like it with beef and/or pork but yours looks so good I think you’ve just sold me on chicken too!
I love lasagna! It’s one of my favorite foods. I don’t like mushrooms, but I’d be willing to try it since it is lasagna! Sometimes I can handle them depending how how well shopped they are..Either way this recipe looks delicious!
My daughter is OBSESSED with lasagna. I wonder if I throw a few new ingredients in there would she love it more.
I love a good lasagna! We use chicken in everything and mushrooms are my daughters favorite! Will definitely give this a try!
I love anything with chicken and mushrooms. All of the ingredients are officially added to my shopping list.
This looks great! I can’t eat ground beef due to my gallbladder so this would be perfect for me! We love lasagna too, so this is for sure a must try!
This would be an awesome meal for my daughter and I. We both love lasagna and plenty of mushrooms.
I wished I had all the ingredients to make this tonight, it sounds soo good and have never made it with chicken so that would be a first.
I have never made lasagna with anything other than ground beef. I am going to have to try it with chicken!
Yum! This sounds so delicious! Perfect to make for a week night dinner!
This would be SO awesome to make for my neighbour. She just had her first born!
This sounds delicious! My family loves lasagna, so I can’t wait to try this variation.