Easy Crock Pot Ravioli Lasagna Recipe

Crock Pot Ravioli Lasagna is a quick and easy way to satisfy your craving for lasagna without all the hard work.

It is also meatless and a great crock pot recipe for meatless Monday.

So here I am rushing to get this recipe in the slow cooker. It’s in there now but not without a big cooking fail first. I wish I could be like some food bloggers who seem to be able to have a bunch of recipes in draft form all ready to go whenever the mood strikes.

Unfortunately, I am like many of you, my readers. I have a life, a family and a home to take care of. There are times when I do have a few recipes made, photographed and ready to go but for some reason when I do it makes me lazy and I think I have all the time in the world. Ha. Since I post a new crock pot recipe every Friday I have to have a new slow cooker recipe made and ready to go by Thursday night of each week.

This is the third year I am sharing a weekly crock pot recipe and I have not missed one Friday yet. It is a miracle for sure. Here we are and it’s Tuesday and I need to get this Crock Pot Ravioli Lasagna cooked, photographed, photos edited, post written and edited and scheduled to post on Friday morning.

And that is just part of all that goes into bringing you a new recipe. I’m not sure that readers who are not bloggers understand how much work is involved in just one recipe post.

Yesterday I mixed up a big batch of ricotta cheese for this recipe and two other recipes I plan on sharing that will have ricotta cheese in the ingredients.

Ya know how ricotta cheese develops a bit of liquid from the whey? Just like yogurt does. Do you mix it in or pour it out? I always pour it out.

In my hurry to get this Crock Pot Ravioli Lasagna recipe in the slow cooker, instead of mixing the liquid back into the ricotta cheese (because! I don’t want the extra liquid in the crock pot making the sauce watery) I very carefully begin to pour the liquid out into the sink half full of dirty dishes.

You see where this is going right?

The entire bowl of ricotta cheese plops into the sink!

One minute it was cooperating completely. It didn’t budge.

The next minute I am staring down at an entire wasted bowl of ricotta cheese in the sink. And that stuff is not cheap!

Did I mention I am having a huge yard sale this weekend? That I am in such a hurry to get this recipe done and written so I have time to organize, price and get ready for the said yard sale!

UGH! Life is like that, isn’t it? It never really pays to rush because somehow somewhere you will make some kind of mistake or make more work for yourself when your rushing.

Lucky for me I had another container of ricotta cheese in the refrigerator that I got buy one get one free when I bought the other container. Saved me a trip to the store!

How to make Easy Crock Pot Ravioli Lasagna Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups ricotta cheese
1 egg
2 teaspoons fresh or dry parsley flakes
24 oz bag frozen cheese ravioli
2 cups pasta sauce
8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions

Mix the ricotta cheese with the egg and parsley. Set aside.
Spread 1 cup of sauce in the bottom of a slow cooker. (I used my Crock Pot Casserole Slow Cooker).
Spread the ravioli in an even layer over the pasta sauce.
Pour a half cup of sauce over the ravioli.
Spread 1 cup of the ricotta cheese over the sauce.
Top with the remaining sauce and half the shredded mozzarella cheese.
Drop the remaining cup of ricotta cheese by the tablespoon over the top and spread the remaining mozzarella cheese over the top.
Cover and cook on low for 4 hours.
Serve 4.

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