Keto Low Carb Lasagna Bowls (Single-Serve Bowls)

Introduction

Browned Italian sausage, a seasoned ricotta layer, marinara and mozzarella, built into individual oven-safe bowls and baked until the top is bubbling. It takes about twenty minutes and it makes four.

What it does not have is noodles — which, given that lasagna is the name of the noodle as well as the dish, makes the name a bit of a stretch. We are keeping it anyway.

What Makes These Lasagna Bowls Low Carb

The noodles are most of it. A lasagna’s carbohydrate is overwhelmingly in the pasta, and taking it out leaves sausage, cheese and tomato — none of which carries much.

The other half of the answer is the marinara, which is the one ingredient here where the brand genuinely changes the number.

Low-Carb-Friendly Marinara Sauce

Marinara carries most of the flavor in a dish like this, and it is also where the sugar hides. Tomatoes have a little natural sugar of their own and that is not the problem; the problem is that most jarred sauces add more on top, sometimes a lot more.

So this is a label-reading ingredient. Rao’s Homemade is the one we keep buying — no added sugar, and it tastes like something you would make. Any sauce with a short ingredient list and no sugar in it will do the same job.

What to Serve With Them

You have to serve garlic bread with lasagna. It is probably the law in most countries. So, in order not to break the law, make our Cheesy Keto Garlic Bread or our Keto Italian Garlic Breadsticks.

A romaine salad with an Italian dressing works too, or this Keto Blue Cheese Dressing.

The Bowls Have to Be Oven-Safe

Worth saying plainly because it is easy to skip past: these go into a 375°F oven, and not every bowl will take that. Most stoneware and ceramic dinner bowls are fine and usually say so on the base; thin glass, melamine and anything with a painted or metallic rim are not. Check before you fill four of them, because a bowl that fails does it in the oven with dinner in it.

Swapping the Sausage

I am not a huge fan of sausage generally, and it is still what this recipe is written with. Ground beef and shredded chicken are the swaps people ask about. We have not made it either way, so treat them as your own variation and expect to adjust the seasoning yourself.

Whatever goes in has to be cooked before it is assembled. The bowls are in the oven for eight to ten minutes, and what you are waiting for is melted, bubbling cheese — that is not long enough to cook raw meat.

Reheating and Keeping Them

The microwave does it in about two minutes, which is the easy answer for a single bowl. In the oven, cover it with foil so the cheese does not burn, give it about ten minutes at 375°F, then take the foil off for the last three to five so the cheese comes back. Either way, check that the middle reaches 165°F on a thermometer.

Covered with foil in the fridge, they are good for about two days. Moved into an airtight container, three to four.

Adding Things

Zucchini noodles, if the absence of pasta is the part you mind — they will not taste or act like a lasagna sheet, but they put something between the layers. Bacon, if you want it saltier. We have not worked out amounts for either, so add them by eye.

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