5 Lasagnas for the Christmas Table

A browned cheese top looks inviting on the Christmas table. What sits underneath changes the dinner, from orange squash against beef and tomato to green vegetables folded into ricotta.

These five lasagnas are alternatives for one main. Each leads to a complete National Pasta Association recipe on Share the Pasta, with the ingredients and cooking instructions kept together.

The pumpkin in the title appears as roasted slices; the ingredient card allows butternut squash or another pumpkin. Bolognese here means the beef and tomato sauce, which also contains red wine. That is the filling to choose when you want a meat main with visible vegetable layers.

Squash roasting and kale preparation come before assembly, even though the recipe uses oven-ready pasta. Allow for that work when you read the maker's method. The card lists 90 minutes total and four servings, despite specifying a 9-by-13-inch pan.

Browning the ground chicken and softening the Swiss chard are skillet jobs. The sweet potato enters the layers as thin raw slices. Its cooking happens inside the tray, rather than on a separate roasting sheet like the squash in the beef lasagna.

The maker specifies a long covered bake followed by a brief broil. That final change matters when the Christmas oven has other dishes waiting: read the full oven sequence before reserving its slot. The card lists twelve servings, 90 minutes total and a 13-by-9-inch glass dish.

Lemon zest and nutmeg accompany the greens, with ricotta, Parmigiano and mozzarella. There is no tomato sauce in the recipe. Eggs also go into the filling, so a green appearance alone doesn't settle whether the dish fits a guest's dietary needs.

The pasta is cooked before assembly, unlike the oven-ready sheets in the beef tray. Share the Pasta lists eight servings and 90 minutes of prep time. That label matters: leave the baking in your dinner plan instead of treating 90 minutes as a stated finish time.

Plating is the attraction, but rolling is part of the work. You'll be filling individual cooked sheets rather than spreading one large layer. The same recipe page includes the tomato sauce, so the complete cooking route stays in one place.

Read through the baking instructions when planning dinner; its 90-minute figure is labeled prep time.

It is the option here with an explicit assembly-ahead note. National Pasta Association says the assembled lasagna can be refrigerated for up to three days before its final oven heating. The note provides a separate covered-then-uncovered oven route for that refrigerated dish; follow it on the complete recipe page.

That pause comes after the vegetable preparation and assembly, so those jobs still need a place in your plans. The recipe card lists twelve servings and 90 minutes total. Its three-day note concerns the assembled dish, not a storage life for baked leftovers.