20 Healthy Lasagna Recipes That’ll Redefine Comfort Food for You

Single-Serving Lasagna

A typical pan of beef lasagna can feed a family of four – twice – which sounds great unless you just want a single plate. Instead of assembling the layers in a big dish, you can break it down into single servings using ramekins.

This recipe uses ground meat, diced onion, and fresh asparagus, although the method can work for any fillings you’re craving. Stick one in the oven when they’re ready to go, and freeze the rest for later.

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Sausage Lasagna Soup

Even if you don’t have a casserole dish, you can enjoy amazing homemade lasagna. The same elements can come together on the stove in a stockpot instead of baking lasagna in the oven.

Broth is the only thing it takes to transform lasagna ingredients from baked pasta into soup, and it’s as versatile as the original dish. This version calls for sweet Italian sausage, but ground beef or turkey would work as well.

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Classic Lasagna from Scratch

Of course you can use a jar of spaghetti sauce to make lasagna. However, it’s not hard to make it from scratch.

Lasagna requires minimal kitchen skills, so all you need is a bit more time to make dinner all your own. All the kitchen work takes about a half hour standing – longer if you count the time idling nearby as the sauce simmers and lasagna bakes. Start to finish, your from-scratch lasagna will be ready to eat in just over two hours.

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Lasagna Zucchini Boats

This is a fun (and lazy) alternative to the usual zucchini lasagna.

Instead of thinly slicing it to replace the sheets of noodles, start by scooping out the zucchini seeds to make space for the lasagna filling. Brown ground meat in a pan, and load it up in the zucchini boats with marinara, fresh basil, and two kinds of cheese.

Picky eaters can treat the zucchini more like a bowl than a part of the meal, but they’ll still reap a few nutritional benefits.

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Three-Meat Lasagna

In the mood for more meat than pasta? This lasagna will satisfy your carnivorous appetite and then some.

It’s even Paleo if you use wheat-free noodles, but these macros are calculated with typical pasta since that’s what’s widely available. Either way, you’ll wind up with a protein-packed lasagna that’s loaded with three kinds of meat.

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Healthy Skillet Lasagna

Make lasagna without even turning on the oven. This quick version comes together in a skillet, and it only takes ten ingredients (not counting salt and pepper).

This one-dish pasta dinner doesn’t even require a pot for boiling water. Sauté onion and garlic in a pan, and then add ground beef. After a couple minutes, lay the lasagna noodles on top, and pour the tomato sauce over everything. The cheese gets added after the pan comes off the heat. Once it’s melted, dinner is ready to be devoured.

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Quinoa Risotto Lasagna Casserole

Get all the flavor of a classic lasagna, only served up in a quinoa casserole instead. It has an enticing layer of gooey cheese on top, so even quinoa skeptics will be willing to give it a try.

This is easier to assemble since you don’t have to line up any sheets of pasta, and although the quinoa has to be cooked separately, that doesn’t involve much more than boiling water and stirring.

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Southwestern Lasagna

Vegetarian lasagna can be delicious without the meat, but no doubt it needs another kind of filling to be a substantial and nutritious dinner.

Beans and corn can bulk up a casserole without ground beef. And to add even more Southwestern flavor, this lasagna uses salsa instead of classic marinara. Since both sauces start with a base of tomatoes, the biggest difference is the seasoning – and if you choose one with jalapenos for kick.

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Sausage & Kale Lasagna

Spinach lasagna is a classic, but you can actually use most leafy greens to add nutrition to your dinner. Sauté kale in a skillet with sausage, add a splash of red wine, and it becomes an incredible filling for healthy lasagna.

From there, assembly is the same as any classic lasagna. Layer the meat together with sauce, no-boil lasagna noodles, and ricotta cheese. Top with freshly grated Parmesan, and bake until bubbly.

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Turkey & Spinach Lasagna

Low-fat lasagna doesn’t have to be tasteless or found in the frozen food section. This turkey lasagna is just like mom’s homemade – just a little healthier.

It’ll be especially flavorful if you make marinara from scratch, but you can use store-bought to save time. The main thing to keep the macros lean is to use ground turkey (or chicken), part-skim mozzarella, and cottage cheese.

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Meatball Lasagna

Weeknight lasagna doesn’t get any easier than this. Use leftover meatballs, or pick up a bag of the frozen kind.

No matter what meatballs you choose for the filling, the result will be both a carnivore and a kid’s delight. In a typical meat marinara, there aren’t big chunks of beef to bite into. Using meatballs resolves that while retaining classic lasagna flavor and – best of all – keeping healthy cooking convenient.

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Seafood Lasagna

Replace the ground meat with fresh seafood, and lasagna becomes an entirely new dinner.

It looks the same on the outside, but once you slice into the pan you’ll see a cross-section of crab, scallops, and shrimp filling. There’s also a layer of basic white sauce with fresh spinach, so there’s no need to make tomato sauce.

Baking and poaching the seafood will take a bit of time, however, so this is best saved for a weekend or impressing guests.

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Pesto Lasagna

When you have a bunch of fresh basil – whether from your own garden or the farmers’ market – the quickest way to make it the star of the dish is pesto.

This classic Italian recipe is from the coast of Liguaria, where pesto was invented. So it needs nothing more than pasta, pesto, and a provolone béchamel sauce. It’ll also show you how to make lasagna noodles from scratch with semolina flour, but if you don’t have a pasta maker, there’s no shame in using the kind that comes in a box.

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Pumpkin Salmon Lasagna

Make gourmet lasagna at home with just a couple special ingredients: smoked salmon and fresh pumpkin.

Pumpkin lasagna often replaces the tomato sauce, but this recipes still includes a layer of simple homemade marinara. There’s also spinach, mushrooms, and – instead of anything canned – fresh chopped pumpkin. This is a great fall recipe that highlights the best of the season.

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Eggplant Lasagna

Don’t pick between eggplant parm and lasagna – go for this elegant dish instead.

While eggplant rounds take the place of the pasta layers, they also keep each serving of lasagna in a neat stack. And the eggplant isn’t breaded or soggy, just thick and tender. Plus it’s hard not to love it when it’s smothered in cheese, fresh tomatoes, and basil.

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Mushroom, Broccoli & Spinach Lasagna Roll-Ups

Lasagna is easy to make, but for even the most amazing home-cooked Italian meals, the presentation can be a bit sloppy.

For a fancy lasagna that can be served to any caliber of guests, simply roll everything up. That way when it comes out of the pan, everything stays in place. It’s also a bit neater to eat because the filling won’t come sliding out. And, to state the obvious, you can keep close track of servings.

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Low-Calorie Lasagna

If you want to avoid pasta for whatever reason, you can make your own noodle replacement. Gluten-free lasagna recipes will use zucchini or eggplant in place of the pasta, but you have to really love veggies to go for that.

This lasagna has layers of chickpea flour crepes instead. And it’s scaled down to a single serving, which is easiest to make if you already have béchamel and meat sauce prepared in the fridge.

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Three-Cheese White Chicken Lasagna

In a white lasagna, marinara tends to be replaced with alfredo sauce. And that means extra cheese!

This one starts with a roux, like many white sauces do, but it’s finished by stirring in over two cups of mozzarella and parmesan. Then rather than using ground meat, this recipe calls for shredded chicken.

If you make a big batch in a crock pot at the start of the week, you can use it for everything from salad to sandwiches, tacos to pasta.

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White Veggie Lasagna

Not only is this veggie lasagna healthy with broccoli, carrots, and mushrooms, but it will satisfy cravings for pasta smothered in white sauce.

And while there is a simple béchamel of butter, flour, and milk, the trick to making this white lasagna healthy is that a lot of that comes from low-fat cottage cheese. While that’s the bulk of the filling, rest assured this is a three-cheese lasagna with mozzarella and Parmesan too.

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Burrito Lasagna

Lasagna noodles can be easily replaced with tortillas to make a Mexican lasagna. Then replace the Italian ingredients with all your favorite burrito fillings, and what you get is a dinner that’s new yet familiar.

With tortilla lasagna, you don’t even have to roll up the burritos just right, or try to keep the tortilla tucked around a mountain of meat as you eat.

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