Slow Cooker Lasagna Recipe With Ravioli
69 Comments Mar 04, 2022
Updated Apr 25, 2024
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Using ravioli to make lasagna is the easiest meal ever, as the ravioli acts as the noodle and the ricotta layers! This slow cooker ravioli lasagna is my family’s favorite meal.
Easy casseroles are my favorite thing to make in the slow cooker. Also, try my chicken tater tot casserole, green chile chicken, and rice casserole.
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I’ve tried using raw noodles (dried) in the slow cooker, and they always turn out chalky. There is something magical about how they make frozen ravioli noodles. Since frozen ravioli isn’t dried dough and instead has fresh dough, it cooks up perfectly in the slow cooker. No need to use uncooked lasagna noodles for this recipe.
You will love my version of lazy lasagna, and in fact, I know you’ll put this on your dinner menu often. This is a very comforting casserole! There is no need to add ricotta or cottage cheese to this dish; the ravioli has it covered in its cheese mixture filling. You may also like my slow cooker white lasagna soup.
Recipe Ingredients
- Frozen Ravioli – Frozen ravioli for crockpot lasagna works best. I use the store brand, 5-cheese variety. If desired, you can use any flavor, such as spinach or portabella mushroom ravioli.
- Marinara Sauce – I love Rao’s marinara for this recipe. It takes the recipe to the next level with authentic tasting sauce. It’s more expensive, though I can find it at Walmart for half the price of other stores.
- Ground beef – Use whatever kind of ground beef your family uses; this recipe is very forgiving!
- Seasonings – Raw onion, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and oregano are added while cooking the ground beef.
- Cheese – I use whole milk mozzarella cheese to top the ravioli casserole. You can add a sprinkle of parmesan if desired as well.
Step-by-Step Directions
Step One – First, you will need to brown a pound of ground beef in a skillet, adding freshly chopped onion, garlic powder, oregano, salt, and pepper.
Step Two – Don’t drain off all the liquid. Leave about 2-3 tablespoons of liquid in the meat mixture; this will help keep the ravioli lasagna moist.
Step Three – Add half of the jar of marinara to the bottom of your slow cooker.
Step Four – Top with half of the bag of frozen ravioli, spread them out into a single layer if possible, some overlapping is fine.
Step Five – Add the ground beef mixture.
Step Six – The remainder of the bag of frozen ravioli.
Step Seven – Pour over the remainder of the jar of marinara.
Step Eight – Sprinkle over the mozzarella cheese. Once you get the layering down the first time, you won’t even need to look at this recipe! It’s effortless!
What to serve with this recipe
Choose one or more of these ideas for a complete meal for your crockpot lasagna.
- Caesar salad – We love a homemade caesar salad with lasagna, or if I’ve had a long day, a caesar salad kit is lovely.
- Green Salad – A fresh green salad with tomato, red onion, and a creamy dressing like ranch or blue cheese.
- Garlic bread – Buy store-made garlic bread for an easy side dish! Start baking your garlic bread about 15-20 minutes before serving.
- French Bread – The easiest side ever is a store bought loaf of French bread, served with butter. If you have a bread maker, you can start the bread maker about the same time as this recipe.
Variations
- Alfredo lasagna – Use 24 ounces of jarred alfredo instead of spaghetti sauce for alfredo lasagna.
- Taco lasagna – Use 24 ounces of salsa instead of tomato sauce. Add taco seasoning to your meat and top with cheddar instead of mozzarella for an easy taco-inspired dish.
- Veggie-packed lasagna – Add layers of fresh spinach to this dish instead of meat sauce for vegetable lasagna.
Recipe FAQs
Ground sausage – Italian sausage or breakfast sausage such as Jimmy Dean.
Frozen meatballs – You can use a small bag of meatballs. These bags are usually about 20 ounces, and this will stretch your recipe to feed more.
Use soy crumbles instead of ground beef if desired in this slow cooker lasagna. Or you can omit the ground beef entirely. Alternatively, you can add thinly sliced zucchini to the middle layer for a meaty texture.
Do not thaw the ravioli. This recipe has been tested over and over with frozen ravioli and will work perfectly.
I recommend using frozen for this recipe if at all possible. If you can not find frozen, you can use the refrigerated style. You can cut down on the cooking time by an hour.
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Slow Cooker Ravioli Lasagna Recipe
Ingredients
- 25 oz. frozen ravioli – DO NOT THAW, (I use 5 cheese)
- 1 lb. ground beef, (can use mild sausage)
- 1 cup white onion, diced
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. dried leaf oregano, (not ground)
- 24 oz. marinara sauce, (I use Rao's)
- 8 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese, (2 cups)
Instructions
- In a medium-sized non-stick skillet set to medium-high heat, add the ground beef and diced onion. Add the salt, pepper, garlic powder, and oregano. Cook until the meat is browned. Don't drain all the liquid off the meat; keep a few tablespoons in the meat to keep it moist.
- Spray the slow cooker with non-stick spray.
- Add half of the marinara sauce to the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Add HALF of the bag of ravioli on top of that sauce.
- Add all of the ground beef mixture over the ravioli.
- Add the remaining ravioli over the meat.
- Pour over the remaining sauce.
- Sprinkle over the mozzarella cheese.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker. Cook on LOW for 4 hours.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Sarah’s Notes
- Do not thaw the ravioli.
- This recipe has been tested over and over with frozen ravioli and will work perfectly.
- I recommend using frozen for this recipe if at all possible.
- If you can not find frozen, you can use the refrigerated style. You can cut down on the cooking time by an hour.
- Use soy crumbles instead of ground beef if desired.
- Or you can omit the ground beef entirely.
- Alternatively, you can add thinly sliced zucchini to the middle layer for a meaty texture.
- Ground sausage – Italian style or breakfast sausage such as Jimmy Dean.
- Frozen meatballs – You can use a small bag of meatballs. These bags are usually about 20 ounces, and this will stretch your recipe to feed more.
- Alfredo lasagna – Use 24 ounces of jarred alfredo instead of spaghetti sauce for alfredo lasagna.
- Taco lasagna – Use 24 ounces of salsa instead of tomato sauce. Add taco seasoning to your meat and top with cheddar instead of mozzarella for an easy taco-inspired dish.
- Veggie-packed lasagna – Add layers of fresh spinach to this dish instead of meat sauce for vegetable lasagna.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
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Making this now. I had to dbl the recipe except for the onions. And I used the tennesee mild sausage.
I got confused on how to layer it since I dbled it lol. I ended doing half one jar of sauce then half one bag of rav then all of the meat mixture then rest of the one jar of sauce. Then I layered the remaining sauce and rav. And topped it with 4c of mozzarella.
Hopefully it turns out.
Also I didn’t see that you used 5 cheese rav. I just used cheese.
This is a great recipe. Did it today. And will be doing it again. Found spinach and cheese raviolis. They were fabulous.
Soooo good! Will be making this again!
Great to hear! We make this all the time.
I was skeptical about making lasagne in my crockpot. But, now I am glad I did. It was delicious and tasted just as good as my homemade version that takes twice as much preparation. I will definitely make again in the crockpot. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
I’m SO glad you tried this! I really wish everyone would. Such an easy and delicious recipe.
My husband loves this recipe. I made it exactly like the recipe suggested. I used the frozen ravioli. Since there are only two of us, there were leftovers. The leftovers were really yummy the next day as well 🙂 Thank-you!
Could you use a white sauce instead of a marina?
Yes, if you are used to the flavor of store bought white sauce.
How long do you cook on the slow cooker for?
Hi, there is a recipe card with the instructions.
Would like try this recipe but will be ok if do overnight on low 10 hours? If so how long ?
I don’t think that would work. It would start burning around the edges around 6 hours.
I cant find frozen ravioli in our little town! Can i use frozen cheese perogies instead??
thanks
Hi! It’s hard to say without testing it. I’m unsure how the potato filling would go with the marinara.
Found it. I just went to print off your recipe and noticed that is where the US to metric conversion button is. Can’t wait to try this recipe. It looks great–and easy!
Ok great! I try to always make sure I activate that for every recipe.
Is 951kcal the same as 951 calories ??
Is there a difference between kcals and cals
kcal is the abbreviation for the word calorie. So yes, 951 calories. I will redo the calories with the info on the back of my ravioli bag, I think the nutrition calculator is wrong on this one.