The Best Zucchini Lasagna with Sausage (Not Soggy & Quick)

With a simple 6-minute hack and a few tips, you can enjoy this low-carb, healthy Zucchini lasagna with sausage in half the time it normally takes to make. And, it won’t be soggy like other zucchini lasagna recipes. Most zucchini lasagna recipes take SO long to prepare, have like 1,000 steps, and end up watery after all your hard work. NO MORE!

Use your air fryer, to remove the excess liquid in your zucchini pasta in a FLASH. After testing many recipes, this cheesy, meaty zucchini lasagna will be the BEST and EASIEST recipe you have ever made.

Avoid Soggy Lasagna: Use Your Air Fryer to Dry the Zucchini Out

Drying the zucchini is crucial in avoiding a soggy zucchini lasagna! But it doesn’t need to take HOURS to avoid excess moisture. By utilizing the air fryer, you can cut the time and prep in half AND avoid excess dishes. Which makes this recipe actually achievable on a busy weeknight.

Other Recipes

In testing other recipes, I have made many a zucchini lasagna that ended up soggy. GROSS. Other recipes, that took MUCH longer to create, required a TON of prep work and time to get the zucchini dried out. These long methods included grilling or prebaking the zucchini, salting the zucchini, and squeezing the zucchini all excess moisture out. While the lasagna turned out much better, it took so much time, effort, and numerous timers to achieve a somewhat more passable dish.

But, I have come up with the solution: air frying the zucchini.

This Solution

The air fryer, in my opinion, is not used nearly enough for prep work in the kitchen. But it makes light work of drying out the zucchini enough for zucchini lasagna with sausage. AND the moisture of the zucchini is still maintained in the middle.

The magic trick: preheat the air fryer to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Toss all of the zucchini slices in the air fryer for 6 minutes, tossing the zucchini once halfway through the bake. You will notice the zucchini shrink significantly in size. And that’s it!

Air Fryer, I love you!

Tips to Make This Recipe a Quick Dinner

Let’s be honest, time is vital. And if a recipe takes too long to prepare, it becomes unachievable for many people. Even on busy days, it’s still important to have a healthy well-balanced dinner (maybe even more important on busy days)! That’s why it’s important to me to create healthy-ish recipes that value people’s resources: both time & money. Here are some tips to make zucchini lasagna with sausage achievable, even on a weeknight!

Utilize Your Air Fryer

Make quick work of the drying step without the long wait and hassle! Use your air fryer to help you cut the cooking time as much as possible! And avoid a soggy lasagna!

Use a Mandoline

If you don’t have one of these bad boys in your kitchen, this is one of the tools that I wholeheartedly believe is worth it, especially if you prep a lot of veggies. Slicing the zucchini by hand takes a LONG time, but with this tool, you will be done in seconds! Just be careful, and use the guard to avoid cutting your fingers. I’m speaking with some experience on this. OUCHY.

Use Premade Marinara Sauce

Sure, maybe you have a delectable family sauce recipe that you always make, feel free to do that still. But premade marinara is an absolute must in my household on busy nights! Cut out the hassle, and be easy on yourself–just purchase a good ‘ol pantry-staple jar of marinara and your zucchini lasagna with sausage will still taste great! You have my permission.

How to Make Zucchini Lasagna with Sausage

To quote Matthew McConaughey “Alright, alright alright.”

Let’s get into the fun part: layering the zucchini lasagna up! WOOHOO!

• Gather your sauce, air-fried zucchini, cheese mixture, and ground sausage.
• Sauce and zucchini will be split in 3rds. The cheese mixture and ground sausage will be split in half.
• In a 9×11 pan, add 1/3 of the sauce.
• Then layer 1/3 of the zucchini.
• Add 1/2 of the cheese.
• Next, add 1/2 of the sausage.
• Then 1/3 more of the sauce.
• Add the 2nd 1/3 of the zucchini.
• Next, add the rest of the cheese.
• Add the rest of the sausage
• Then add the rest of your sauce.
• Add the rest of the zucchini.
• Top with shredded mozzarella.

Zucchini Lasagna with Sausage Ingredients

Zucchini lasagna with sausage is relatively easy to make, and it uses ingredients that you probably have on hand or in your pantry. Check out the ingredients you need to make this delicious low-carb pasta dish.

• Zucchini
  • The zucchini replaces the traditional lasagna noodles in this “pasta dish.” Zucchini lasagna with sausage is much lower in carbs and calories than traditional lasagna. Use a mandoline to thinly slice up your zucchini. You can use a regular knife as well, but it takes much longer.
• Sausage
  • Because of its flavor, I typically use ground Italian sausage in my zucchini lasagna with sausage. However, you can use whatever type of sausage you prefer or swap it for ground turkey or beef. If you swap out the meat, you may want to bump up the seasonings.
• Cheese Mixture
  • Zucchini lasagna with sausage uses a traditional lasagna cheese mixture of ricotta, mozzarella, and parmesan. It’s a winner.
• Marinara Sauce
  • No need to make your own sauce for this lasagna. Instead, just pick up a pantry-staple marinara sauce from the store. It will make your zucchini lasagna with sausage prep SO much faster than homemade sauce.

More Quick Dinners that Utilize Your Air Fryer

Check out more SPEEDY, low-fuss recipes that utilize your air fryer to cut the amount of time you spend cooking. The air fryer is one of the best quick weeknight meal tools on the market, and you can use yours to help you make delicious and healthy dinners in a fraction of the time it normally takes! Below are more fantastic, time-saving dinner recipes that use the air fryer!

• Homemade Salsa Chicken Taquitos in the Air Fryer
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