• All ingredients ready? Let's begin!
  

Meat

• Heat the oil in your skillet.
  
• Add the ground meat while separating and stirring it. Cook until no more pink and water evaporates.
  
• Remove the mince from the skillet and keep it aside.
  

Pasta Sauce

• Add the oil to the same skillet you cooked the ground meat. Heat the olive oil on a medium setting.
  
• Put your finely chopped onions into the oil and saute it for 4-5 minutes until the onions are soft and translucent – almost disappearing.
  
• Add the garlic and saute for another 30-40 seconds.
  
• Add the crushed tomatoes and simmer for 1 minute.
  
• Then add the tin of tomato paste and simmer for 1 minute.
  
• Now add the salt and pepper and cook for 1 minute.
  
• If you enjoy the extra heat, now is the time to add the chili flakes and cook for a minute.
  
• Add the sugar, and again, cook for 1-2 minutes.
  
• Lastly, add in the herbs and cook for another minute.
  
• Then pour the water into the sauce, bring to a boil while stirring. Let it boil for 2-3 minutes. Watch out for splatters.
  
• Taste and adjust spices as needed. You can add more salt if it is lacking or sugar if the sauce is sour.
• Turn the heat down to a medium-low, close the lid and allow the sauce to cook for 5-10 minutes.
  
• While the sauce is cooking, you can grate the cheeses and mix them all up (if it is not pre-grated).
  

Layering The Lasagna

• Lightly grease your lasagna baking dish.
• Add a third of the pasta sauce to the bottom of the baking dish.
  
• Layer a third of the ground meat over the sauce.
  
• Add ravioli as the third layer.
  
• Use another third of the pasta sauce of the ravioli.
  
• Then add another third of the ground meat.
  
• Sprinkle half the cheese for the next layer.
  
• Repeat the layers until all the ingredients have finished with cheese as the last layer. In a standard baking dish, you should get around 2 ravioli layers. If you have a smaller container, use less cheese between the stacking to last you all the layers.

Baking

• Preheat the oven to 400°F.
• Lightly grease the inside of a piece of foil and cover the baking dish with it. The grease helps prevent the cheese from sticking to the foil.
  
• Place the lasagna in the oven for 30 minutes.
• After that, remove the foil and put the oven to broil for 5-10 minutes until the cheese is golden and slightly crispy on the sides.
  
• Remove, serve, and enjoy with your sides of choice, such as a green salad or garlic bread!