Zucchini Lasagna

The Italian girl in me is very skeptical of any meal in general that does not include pasta ESPECIALLY meals that are in essence PASTA! I mean, lasagna without lasagna noodles - that is so unnatural! Well, I ventured out with this veggie filled dish and it turned out to be AMAZING! Even Train gobbled it right up and every mom knows that you take every opportunity you can to sneak in extra veggies! Feel free to share, even with the skeptics :)

Zucchini Lasagna

Ingredients:
1 lb of lean ground turkey or extra lean ground beef
Mrs. Dash seasoning
1 tsp garlic powder
3 or 4 small zucchini sliced lengthwise (I used my mandoline slicer)
24 oz of low fat or 1% cottage cheese or low fat ricotta cheese
1 jar spaghetti sauce (no sugar added)
1 onion, chopped
1/2 - 1 small container of spinach, chopped (it seems like a lot but it wilts away to nothing!)
Non fat or low fat mozzarella cheese, grated
Coconut oil spray.

Directions: 
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.
Combine ground turkey, garlic powder, Mrs. Dash, and onion, in a skillet and brown turkey.
Add chopped spinach and saute until spinach is wilted.
Combine turkey mixture with the cottage or ricotta cheese.
Spray baking dish with coconut oil spray and layer zucchini in the bottom of your pan.
Spread a layer of the ground turkey and cheese mixture.
Spread a layer of sauce on top.
Repeat this over again for as many layers as you'd like.
Sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top.
Cover with foil and bake in the oven for about 1 hour.
Remove the foil and continue to bake for 10 more minutes.
Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes.