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Buffalo Chicken Lasagna Is Perfect Super Bowl Dish

Associated Press

To please the fans at your Super Bowl party: Buffalo chicken lasagna, with the flavor of Buffalo chicken wings and the tanginess of blue cheese.

The following recipe, which serves 10, is quick to fix because there’s no need to cook the lasagna before assembling.

Buffalo Chicken Lasagna

From the National Pasta Association

12 pieces lasagna, uncooked

Vegetable oil cooking spray

1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts, diced

4 cups low-sodium spaghetti sauce

1 1/2 cups water

2 to 3 tablespoons hot pepper sauce

2 tablespoons vinegar

1 teaspoon garlic salt

15-ounce container part-skim ricotta cheese

1/2 cup egg substitute

3/4 cup crumbled blue cheese

Spray a large skillet with cooking spray; place over mediumhigh heat until hot. Add chicken; saute 4 minutes. Drain well. Stir in spaghetti sauce, water, hot pepper sauce, vinegar and garlic salt.

In a bowl, combine ricotta cheese and egg substitute. Set aside.

Spray a 9- by 13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

Spread 1 cup of the sauce over the bottom of the pan. Arrange four pieces of lasagna (three lengthwise, one widthwise) over the sauce. Cover with 1 cups of the sauce. Spread half of the ricotta mixture on top. Arrange another four pieces of lasagna over ricotta, and top with another 1 cups of the sauce. Spread remaining ricotta mixture on top. Arrange final four pieces of lasagna over ricotta mixture; cover with remaining sauce.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cover lasagna with foil and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Uncover lasagna, sprinkle blue cheese on top, bake an additional 5 minutes uncovered.

Let stand 15 minutes, covered, before serving.

Yield: 10 servings.

Nutrition information per serving: 284 calories, 22 grams protein, 28 grams carbohydrate, 10 grams fat (32 percent fat calories), 584 milligrams sodium, 42.9 milligrams cholesterol.