Mushroom alla Vodka Stovetop Lasagna

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 36.

	this recipe	typical
cheese	221%	117%
dairy	142%	2%
fat	9%	2%
egg	0%	6%
salt	5%	1%
aromatics	206%	19%
different cheeses	2.0	2.0
melt idx	0.7	0.7
cheese flavor idx	0.4	0.4
stretch idx	0.6	0.6

Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

14 g	1 Tbsp olive oil ($0.19)
227 g	2 cups white mushrooms (sliced, (227g) $1.88)
150 g	1 cup red onion (diced, (150g) $1.07)
8 g	1 Tbsp garlic (minced, $0.24)
1 g	1/4 tsp crushed red pepper ($0.05)
170 g	1 6 oz can tomato paste ($0.86)
57 g	1/4 cup vodka (2 oz, $0.99*)
227 g	1 cup heavy cream (8 oz, $1.68)
454 g	2 cups water (16 oz $0.00)
160 g	8 lasagna noodles (broken up, $0.87)
8 g	1 1/4 tsp salt (divided, $0.05)
240 g	1 cup cottage cheese (240g, $0.98)
30 g	1/4 cup chopped frozen spinach (thawed and squeezed from excess moisture (30g) $0.12)
1 g	1/4 tsp garlic powder ($0.02)
113 g	1 cup mozzarella cheese (shredded, (113g) $0.99)

Method: 8 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“This is soooooooo good!!!!!! It took me quite a bit longer to make than the advertised prep and cook times but I am a novice at cooking (I am awful at chopping veggies) so that's probably why. When I sat down to eat, I was actually hoping that I wasn't going t” — a cook, 5.0★

“We loved this one! I can't have alcohol at the moment so I used plain water instead but agree that it needed a squeeze of lemon to brighten the flavors. I also didn't have cottage cheese so subbed ricotta instead and it got all melted and cheesy as it warmed u” — a cook, 5.0★