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Try this great appetizer for your game day snack - Lasagne Cupcakes
Lasagna Cupcakes
Recipe courtesy of Aarti Sequeira
Total Time: 1 hr 35 min
Prep: 30 min
Inactive: 25 min
Cook: 40 min
Yield:12 cupcakes
Level:Easy
Ingredients
Meat Sauce:
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 whole cloves
One 1-inch cinnamon stick
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, finely diced (about 1 cup)
Kosher salt
1 pound mild Italian chicken sausage, casing removed
1/4 cup tomato paste
One 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
Freshly ground pepper
Ricotta Filling:
3/4 cup shredded mozzarella, plus more for topping
3/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan, plus more for topping
3/4 cup part-skim ricotta
1/3 cup mango chutney
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
1 package wonton wrappers (at least 48)
12 whole small fresh basil leaves
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
For the meat sauce: In a large skillet over medium-high heat, warm the olive oil until it shimmers. Add the whole cloves and cinnamon stick, and remove after a few minutes. Add the garlic and onions, sprinkle with a little salt and saute until softened but not browned.
Add the sausage, breaking up the clumps with your spoon. Cook until the sausage is no longer pink, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook 1 to 2 minutes. Add the crushed tomatoes, basil, as well as some salt and pepper. Stir to combine and simmer uncovered, for about 15 minutes, stirring every now and then. Allow the meat sauce to cool, about 15 minutes, before building lasagna cupcakes. As the meat sauce is cooking, prepare the ricotta filling.
For the ricotta filling: Stir together the mozzarella, Parmesan, ricotta and mango chutney. Season with salt and lots of pepper, about a teaspoon, and set aside.
To assemble the cupcakes: Pull out your favorite cupcake pan. If your pan is not nonstick, spray the cups with cooking spray. Place a wonton wrapper in each cup. Don't worry if you're using square ones.
Drop about 1 teaspoon of meat sauce into the bottom of each cup. Then add 1 teaspoon of ricotta filling. Then cover with another wonton wrapper, rotating it about 90-degrees so that the corners of the first wrapper and the second wrapper aren't right on top of each other. Repeat this until you've built three layers total. Top each with a small basil leaf, then another wonton wrapper. Finish each cupcake with a spoonful of meat sauce, a little shredded mozzarella and pinch of grated Parmesan.
Pop them into the oven and bake for 20 minutes. When time's up, resist the temptation to eat them right away or else you'll burn your mouth! Let them rest on the counter for about 10 minutes, and they should slip out of the muffin tin easily. Top with more shredded basil if you like.
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Good morning Lisa. You need to visit Jane Chaulklin-Schott post today. I believe you'll find it entertaining
I think you should watch! :-)
Good morning Lisa. Isn't it funny how attribute behaviors to teams. In any event your snack looks great. Enjoy the day.
Good morning Lisa,
Hopefully you will be able to enjoy most of the game.
When it comes to watching any game I have learned to keep my mouth and emotions to myself so the iron skillet does not come flying!
Make yourself an astonishing day.
Hi Lisa... hope your preferred team wins. I have no horse in this race... both the Panthers and the Giants are out.
Good morning Lisa. The Packers are playing well, but the Cowboys have been a surprise all year long! Enjoy your day and watch the game!
Thank you for the heads up on Jane's post James Dray - what a fun poem she posted for the game today!
I am carving out time to do so Kat Palmiotti ...let the game begin
Hello Sheila,
It is funny, I agree...now I have to get to work on the appetizers
Our grandsons have their birthday party today but something tells me the TV will be on somewhere. I like to root for the underdog. Who would that be?
Hi Lisa Von Domek I guess we'll know if you watched by the outcome.
I WILL be watching. The outcome will NOT be affected by me (my) watching so I can do so without regret or guilt.
Bill Roberts
I will be rooting for the Cowboys. They are having a stellar year!
Not a pro fan especially Jerry Jones but the young Cowboy quarterback will make me want the Cowboys to win.
Lisa, I just have a feeling that you will be watching the game. I will not ... but for different reasons.
Lisa,
Cowboys, we have a friend whose son works with the Cowboys. A
Debbie Reynolds A Very Happy Birthday to your grandsons and I bet you are right about a tv being on somewhere there
I will be watching Bill Roberts and I will just have to let the chips fall where they may...if the Cowboys lose, though, I may have to go into hiding
They certainly are Belinda Spillman and the Dallas fans are very excited at the prospect of going to the Superbowl.
Joe Pryor Jerry certainly causes a lot of controversy with Cowboys fans
I am going to be watching the game Kathleen Daniels
Ron and Alexandra Seigel my Cowboys friends are all telling me I had better not watch the game
Check your text soon Lisa, betting..
Sally K. & David L. Hanson you need to check out Jane Chaulkin-Schott's post today (AR tag is not working for her name for me
) You will love her Packer Poem!
Hi, Lisa Von Domek I wouldn't mind having one of your appetizers right now. They look so delicious. Just closed the 1st half of the game: Cowboys closing in on the Packers 21-13. I always feel I jinx my team, too. I recall years ago my family and a large group watched the game on TV; I took a nap (I hate to lose)... Well, the Packers won and I heard my MOM tell everyone not to tell me I won the pool...$$$$$. Seems MOM could take loses better than I. So:
END OF FIRST HALF:
PACKERS 21 - COWBOYS 13
Hi, Lisa Von Domek, just stopped by to say your Dallas Cowboys played a great game...WOW, on the 4th quarter!!! To be honest it was anyone's game in the end. I think I stopped breathing for about 4 to 5 minutes. See you, next year.