Zucchini Pizza Lasagna

Zucchini. Pizza. Lasagna. 3 Things that go perfect together. This was so good we look forward to making it a regular at our house!

Ingredients

For the zoodles:
• 1 large zucchini
• 1 teaspoon salt

For the Pizza sauce:
• 1 can tomato sauce (or you can use pizza sauce in a jar)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1 teaspoon parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• 1 tablespoon sugar

For the Filling:
• 1 pound sausage
• 1 package mini pepperoni
• 1/2 cup bell pepper - a small bell pepper
• 1/2 cup onion - a small onion
• 1/2 cup mushrooms
• 8 oz package Mozzarella cheese (thick shred)
• 5 fresh basil leaves (chiffonade)

Instructions

Pizza Sauce:
1. Let's start with the sauce so it can simmer a while. Pour 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a sauce pan on low heat, mince up the garlic and add to the pan. Let that get started for a minute while you open your tomato sauce. Add sauce to pan, then add parsley, oregano and sugar; stirring occasionally. Then set aside.

For the Filling:
1. Brown the sausage until cooked thoroughly. Remove the sausage and set aside, toss the onion, bell pepper, and mushrooms into your sausage drippings, and cook until just tender.
2. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
3. Using a mandolin, slice the zucchini into thin slices, about 1/8 inch thick (it was the middle sized blade on ours), sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt.
4. Chiffonade the basil (roll and slice thin slices) Now we're ready to build the Lasagna!

Begin layering:
1. Spray a baking dish with non-stick spray.
2. Add a little sauce in the bottom, add the zucchini, a little meat (including the mini pepperoni), veggies, sauce and cheese. Ours was about 4 layers of each and then top with a good helping of cheese and those fresh basil leaves. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.. that's all it took mine, the cheese was just beginning to toast and bubble on top.

Notes

Depending on how you like your zucchini cooked you can precook it in the oven if you like it really tender. I didn't do that we liked it just fine with a little extra texture.

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