Straightforward Low Carb Keto Cottage Cheese Sheet Pan Lasagna

November 11, 2024

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This straightforward cottage cheese keto lasagna recipe is made shortly and simply on a easy sheet pan in beneath half-hour! Simply 4 g internet carbs with 39 grams protein!

Keto Lasagna Noodles

Carbs in conventional lasagna noodles are fairly excessive for anybody following a keto weight loss plan with 17 grams of carbs only for the noodle. I’ve acquired loads of low carb lasagna noodles that work very well for a scrumptious genuine tasting lasagna with so much much less carbs!

Zucchini slices additionally work nice as lasagna noodles, like on this low carb lasagna recipe I made a couple of years in the past. However it is a bit extra work to chop the zucchini slices and skinny to make use of like basic lasagna sheets. Additionally in case you do not precook the zucchini it may are inclined to make it a watery lasagna.

Hearts of palm additionally makes mock lasagna noodles and I believe are simpler to make use of than making zucchini noodles for lasagna since you will not must slice something, They arrive in packaged kind on Amazon.

I’ve additionally used layers of pre boiled cabbage as a substitute of zucchini layers and favored it even higher since it’s so skinny and lightweight between the layers of meat and ricotta cheese layers.

Another choice for a low carb lasagna is utilizing eggplant slices however once more, like zucchini, have to be pre baked to melt them earlier than utilizing as low carb lasagna noodles.

I’ve additionally made a excessive protein keto lasagna utilizing Egglife wraps to exchange common lasagna noodles and the entire household loves that straightforward recipe as effectively!

I’ve tried utilizing deli meat like turkey and hen however my household and I didn’t really feel it held up in addition to the preferred recipes I’ve already shared.

This straightforward sheet pan keto lasagna is the quickest recipe of all!

Cottage Cheese Lasagna

I am a Sicilian Italian and love ricotta cheese, particularly for a keto lasagna recipe.

It is acquired excessive protein simply as cottage cheese is however does have extra carbs and extra fats than utilizing a cottage cheese combination for a low-carb lasagna. However ricotta might be swapped for the cottage cheese on this recipe in case you favor.

Usually a standard lasagna ricotta combination provides eggs and parmesan cheese. I made a decision to skip the eggs and parmesan for the reason that folio cheese wraps I used had been made from simply Parmesan.

Pasta Sauce Choices

The Rao’s model is a low carb marinara sauce which is a low sugar marinara sauce and might be present in virtually each market.

I even have my very own home made low carb marinara sauce that’s straightforward and engaging and even higher than retailer purchased for my part.

Step-By-Step Photographs

I first turned this sheet pan lasagna into 6 servings as you possibly can see from the pictures. It is a very giant serving and excessive in energy but in addition excessive in protein.

Should you determine to maintain it for six servings, here is the vitamin data.

I made a decision the serving was too giant for a lot of, and decreased to eight servings and that is the dietary info you will note within the backside of the recipe card with full printable recipe directions.

It is nonetheless dimension serving and has 39 grams of protein and simply 4 grams of internet carbs!

Do I’ve to make use of a sheet pan?

No, in case you’d slightly use a casserole dish as a substitute of a sheet pan that may nonetheless work. I discover it is simpler to make use of a sheet pan to take away the skinny layers of cheese and meat on a sheet pan rahter than deep baking dish since that is completely different than my different straightforward lasagna recipes and would not have loads of layers.

Can I swap the bottom beef?

Sure you possibly can swap out the bottom beef with floor sausage or floor pork, lean floor turkey or floor hen.

Serve with Low Carb Keto Bread

I made my Keto Garlic Herb Cottage Cheese Bread to serve with this sheet pan lasagna and it was good!

Different keto breads you may like;

Low Carb Keto Cottage Cheese Cloud Bread

Low Carb Keto Hawaiian Candy Rolls