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Wrapping up our series on using specialty items hanging out in your pantry after the holiday cooking season is past, I am including a recipe for Mexican Lasagna. Janie Steward shared this recipe with me in 2013, and it was my first experience using uncooked lasagna noodles in a recipe. I have adapted this method to almost all recipes calling for lasagna noodles or manicotti tubes. The trick is 5 cups liquid per 12 noodles or tubes.

The other nifty trick in this recipe is the ground beef is added raw, eliminating a skillet to wash and speeding up preparation.

Mexican Lasagna

1 pound ground beef...