Cheats Sausage Lasagne

Method

1. Preheat oven 180C
2. Remove the skin from the sausages
3. In a large deep sided pan fry the onions in a 2 tbsp olive oil over medium heat for 5 mins until soft. Stir in garlic and the sausage meat and begin to break it up with the back of your wooden spoon into small bite size pieces
4. Fry the sausage meat for 5 mins then add tomato paste, passata, chopped tomatoes, italian seasoning, salt and sugar. Allow to simmer for 5-8 mins and check seasoning
5. To make the cheese sauce whisk together in a large bowl the ricotta, eggs, 1 cup of the parmesan and a ½ tsp of salt
6. To assemble:
7. Grease a large deep sided rectangle ovenproof dish with butter. Spread a few spoonsful of sauce on the bottom and then cover with one layer of lasagne sheets. Spoon 1/3 sausage sauce onto the lasagne sheets, half the spinach leaves then another layer of lasagne sheets. Spoon over 1/3 sausage sauce and half the cheese sauce then top with the last lasagne layer. Spread with the remaining sausage sauce, spinach leaves and finally the remaining cheese sauce. Sprinkle with remaining ½ cup parmesan cheese
8. Place into the hot oven and bake for 30 mins until golden and bubbling. Allow to rest for 10 mins before cutting and serving