Zucchini Lasagna

Let me just start by saying this: yum.

Okay now I'll tell you how I make mine. You really need to go with what you love, but try to branch out a little too.

Here's the deal, you replace lasagna noodles with long thin strips of zucchini. I use a perpendicular vegetable peeler for mine and I like it a lot. So for a 9x13 dish you should use nearly all of three zucchini(s).

3 zucchini, thinly sliced, longways
4 tiny cans tomato paste and enough water to make a very thick sauce
1 c Parmesan cheese
1 tub of cottage cheese
Almost a whole bag of baby spinach - chopped smallish
1lb meat or meatless crumbles
8 oz sliced or coarsely chopped mushrooms
3 c shredded cheese

Assembly:
Mix the tomato paste and the water. Season with the world's best Italian or pizza seasoning and add your cup of Parmesan, give it a stir. You do not want it to be a thin sauce so watch it with the water. The zucchini will release a lot of water and you could have soup instead. It's still good, but ya know...
I put enough sauce on the bottom of the pan to just get it wet, like a thin schmear okay?
Next a layer of "noodles" aka zucchini slices.
Now a little saucy sauce.
Then cottage cheese, I try to do 3 layers of guts so use about 1/3 of the tub. Ofcourse you can use ricotta, its delish and I love it but I love love love cottage cheese, so that's what I use.
After you get that rubbed in a little you need to cover it with a good amount of spinach, like, a lot. As much as you can stand to look at. It's the very best part.
Lightly sprinkle the cooked meat over that (or omit the meat if you prefer). I use half turkey sausage and half lean lean lean beef. As lean as you can get it. You could also use meatless crumbles (by Morning Star Farms I think), that's pretty stinkin' good. We had it on pizza a couple times and it was mistaken for meat by those who didn't make the pizza.
Back to the lasagna, over the meat put your chopped or sliced mushrooms.
Cheese time, use a whole cup, not a spec less, for each of the 3 layers.

Now, do that 3 times. When you get it all into the pan you might have to press it very nicely to get it all into the pan. Don't worry, the spinach will cook down and everything will fit... eventually. Just try it. Try it.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour. If you find that there was to much water you can cook it longer, don't be mad at me if you burn it though. Or if you have a day to spare, then pop it into the fridge until tomorrow and have it then. The water will be all soaked up. If you're out of time and you eat it as lasagna soup like we did once; it'll still be mmmm mmm good.

Did you realize already that this is a great low carb alternative to regular lasagna?