Best Slow Cooker Florentine Ravioli Lasagna Recipes

RANDY'S SLOW COOKER RAVIOLI LASAGNA

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef, garlic, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in the hot skillet until meat is browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease. Stir pasta sauce, Italian seasoning, basil, and oregano into ground beef mixture.
• Ladle a generous layer of meat sauce into the bottom of a slow cooker; add a layer of ravioli. Ladle another layer of meat sauce over ravioli layer; alternate with remaining ravioli and meat sauce until all ingredients are used.
• Cook on Low for 3 to 5 hours. Sprinkle ravioli mixture with mozzarella cheese and continue cooking until cheese is melted, 45 minutes to 1 hour more.

SLOW COOKER LASAGNA

Steps:

• For the meat mixture: In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the olive oil and onion and saute for 5 minutes. Add the ground beef, sausage and garlic and cook until brown, 7 to 9 minutes. Add the tomatoes with their juice, tomato paste, basil, parsley, oregano, salt and some pepper and stir. Set aside.
• For the cheese mixture: In a medium bowl, combine the ricotta, Parmesan, Romano, basil, parsley, salt, pepper and eggs and stir together well.
• For the lasagna: Spray a 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray.
• Spoon in one-quarter of the meat mixture on the bottom and top with 5 lasagna noodles, broken to fit. Add a third of the cheese mixture, then sprinkle with 1/2 cup mozzarella. Repeat this layering twice, starting with the meat mixture and ending with the mozzarella, for 3 layers total.
• For the fourth layer, top with the remaining meat mixture and remaining 1/2 cup mozzarella. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours. Turn off the heat and allow the lasagna to sit 30 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.

SLOW-COOKER SHORTCUT RAVIOLI LASAGNA

Steps:

• Spray 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. In 12-inch nonstick skillet, cook beef, onion and garlic over medium- high heat 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beef is thoroughly cooked; drain.
• Spoon 3/4 cup of the pasta sauce in bottom of slow cooker. Layer half of the ravioli, half of the beef mixture and 1 cup of the cheese over sauce. Repeat layers with 3/4 cup sauce, remaining ravioli and remaining beef mixture. Top with remaining sauce; sprinkle with remaining 1 cup cheese.
• Cover; cook on Low heat setting 6 hours or until ravioli is tender.

SLOW COOKER RAVIOLI LASAGNA

Steps:

• Add olive oil to a large pot over medium heat. Add ground beef, onions, garlic, Italian seasoning, red chili flakes, salt and pepper. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes, until ground beef is cooked and onions are softened. Drain excess grease if needed.
• Stir in crushed tomatoes.
• Spread a small layer of sauce on the bottom of a 6 quart slow cooker. Add a layer of frozen ravioli. Add a layer of mozzarella cheese. Repeat with a layer of sauce, ravioli and mozzarella cheese until you end up with sauce on top.
• Top with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. Cover and cook on LOW for 4 hours.
• Turn off slow cooker and let sit for 20 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with dried parsley, if desired.

SLOW-COOKER FLORENTINE RAVIOLI "LASAGNA"

Steps:

• Dice chicken into bite size pieces, sprinkle evenly with salt pepper, garlic powder & Italian herbs, to taste.
• Grease a 5-6 quart oval slowcooker.
• Spread 1/2 jar of Alfredo sauce in the bottom.
• Layer in, 1/3 each of the ravioli, mushrooms, spinach, chicken, and mozzarella. Cover with 1/2 jar Alfredo sauce.
• Repeat layers twice more.
• Add 1/4 cup white wine (or water) to each jar, cap and shake well to get all the sauce loosened and then pour each over the top of the casserole.
• Cook on low 3-5 hours. Topping with parmesan in the last 30-60 minutes.