From-scratch Tex Mex Lasagna

Tex Mex Lasagna – this casserole dish turns your traditional lasagna into a Tex Mex dish with the Mexican flavors you love.

While still using pasta, we add in beans, corn, and your favorite spices like cumin, corriander, and chili powder.

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Why Recipe For Mexican Lasagna stays in the rotation

This recipe for Mexican Lasagna takes your traditional lasagna and adds all your favorite Mexican food flavors. It is straightforward to family, cook, and satisfying-friendly.

While most Mexican Lasagnas have tortillas in place of pasta, this one still has that lasagna pasta you love!

What you’ll need for Mexican Lasagna with Noodles

• Ground beef
• Taco seasoning (Here’s the recipe we use)
• Roasted green chile
• Frozen corn
• Enchilada sauce
• Pinto beans
• Cottage cheese
• Pepperjack cheese
• Egg
• Cumin
• Corriander
• Chili powder
• Salt & pepper
• Lasagna noodles
• Cheddar cheese

How to make this Mexican Lasagna Recipe

Detailed instructions and measurements are listed in the recipe card at the bottom of this page.

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• In a large, deep skillet add your ground beef and sprinkle with the taco seasoning. Cook, breaking up into pieces until no longer pinked and fully cooked through.
• Add the green chiles, frozen corn, enchilada sauce, and pinto beans to the skillet. Simmer for 10 minutes and remove from the stove.
• In a separate mixing bowl, combine the cottage cheese, 1 cup of pepperjack cheese, egg, cumin, coriander, chili powder, pepper, and salt.
• Spray a 9×13 casserole dish With non-stick spray and add a thin layer of sauce to the bottom. Assemble your lasagna as follows: thin layer of sauce, 3 lasagna noodles, 1/2 of your cheese mixture, a layer of sauce, 3 lasagna noodles, the remainder of your cheese mixture, a layer of sauce, 3 lasagna noodles, the remainder of your sauce, and then top with your shredded cheddar and remaining pepper jack.
• Cover your lasagna with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional 20 minutes.
• Remove from oven and allow it to cool for 10 minutes before serving.

Tex Mex Lasagna Tips and Tricks

Always allow any lasagna to cool at least 10 minutes before serving. By allowing it to properly cool, it won’t be runny and separate. It will stay together when you cut and serve.

DO NOT use “oven ready” noodles. We hate them. They result in a rubbery texture. Use regular lasagna noodles, uncooked.

Use an enchilada sauce you love! Whether that’s from-scratch, canned, whatever. We personally love Gebhardt brand enchilada sauce. The flavor is spot on.

How to serve Mexican Style Lasagna

The great thing about Tex Mex Lasagna is that it is a complete meal all by itself, but you could also serve it alongside:

• Chips and queso
• Pico De Gallo
• Guacamole
• Sour Cream
• Cilantro

Mexican Lasagna Recipe Storage

Mexican Lasagna should be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Can you freeze this recipe?

You can freeze this tex mex lasagna. Allow the lasagna to cool completely and then place it in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 6 months.

Tex Mex Lasagna FAQs

Taco Lasagna with Noodles Alterations & Substitutions for Picky Eaters

Use their favorite protein/meat – whether that is ground chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, etc. Use the one they love.

Don’t let them see the cottage cheese!! When the lasagna is done, there’s no trace of cottage cheese texture so if they’re someone that freaks out about seeing what’s in a recipe, don’t let them see that step.

If they’re sensitive to spice, omit the green chile, chili powder, and use monterrey jack cheese in place of the pepper jack.

Use their favorite beans. If they don’t like pinto, opt for black beans, cannellini beans, whatever they enjoy!

Use a great tasting enchilada sauce. We can’t stress enough how much of a difference the right enchilada sauce can make!

Mexican Style Lasagna Alterations to Lower Calories

• Use ground turkey, elk, or venison in place of ground beef
• Use extra lean ground beef
• Choose a lower calorie/lower point enchilada sauce
• Use whole wheat lasagna noodles for a zero point option on WW Purple Plan
• Choose a low fat/non fat cottage cheese
• Use reduced fat or fat free versions of cheddar and pepper jack cheeses