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Chicken Parmesan Lasagna

Chicken Parmesan Lasagna is an easy weeknight mash-up of two of our favorite dinners! It's a little lighter than a traditional lasagna and doesn't take half the dishes of chicken Parmesan!
Course Main
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 4 servings
Author Julie Kotzbach

Ingredients

  • One 24 ounce can Ragu Chunky Roasted Garlic pasta sauce
  • Oven ready lasagna noodles
  • 1 large chicken breast cooked & shredded
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 2 cups mozzarella cheese
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 2/3 cup panko bread crumbs

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. Pour about 1/4 cup Ragu pasta sauce into the bottom of a 9-inch by 9-inch baking dish. Spread out the sauce so it covers the entire bottom of the dish.
  3. Layer lasagna noodles over the bottom of the dish (I only needed 2). Spread half of the chicken out of the noodles. Sprinkle half of the basil and oregano over the chicken. (I love love love basil & oregano, if you don't want to extra seasoning, leave this part out. The sauce is flavorful enough all by itself.) Over the chicken evenly with 1/3 of the cheese.
  4. Spread 3/4 cup of sauce over the cheese, and top with noodles. Repeat the layer - chicken, herbs, cheese, and sauce.
  5. Top with noodles again, covering the second layer. Spoon some more pasta sauce over the top noodles and spread evenly, making sure all of the past is well coated.
  6. Sprinkle the remaining 1/3 of the cheese over the sauce.
  7. In a microwave safe bowl, melt the butter. Add in the bread crumbs and stir until the bread crumbs are evenly moistened.
  8. Sprinkle the bread crumbs evenly over the cheese. (This gives that great crunch layer in a traditional chicken Parmesan.)
  9. Cover the baking dish loosely with foil and bake for 25 minutes.
  10. Remove the foil and turn your oven to broil on HIGH. Keep a close eye on the dish so it doesn't burn, and cook the top of the lasagna until the bread crumbs are golden brown.
  11. Remove from the oven and let sit for a few minutes before serving.

Recipe Notes

Keep this extra easy buy picking a rotisserie chicken from the store or cooking an extra chicken breast and shredding the meat earlier in the week so it's already to go!

Serving a crowd double this recipe and make it in a 9-inch by 13-inch baking dish and cook for the same amount of time.