Slow cooker lasagne recipe

Let the slow cooker do the work with this hands-off lasagne recipe

By The Good Housekeeping Cookery TeamUpdated: 21 July 2025

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Our ultimate easy, midweek-friendly, slow cooker lasagne recipe. Serve with steamed buttered greens, or a crisp green salad.

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Yields:

4 - 6 serving(s)

Prep Time:

20 mins

Cook Time:

6 hrs 25 mins

Total Time:

6 hrs 45 mins

Cal/Serv:

375

Ingredients

2 tsp.
vegetable oil
1
onion, finely sliced
2
garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp.
dried oregano
1 tsp.
dried basil
400 g
beef mince
675 g
passata
1 tsp.
sugar
1
beef stock cube, crumbled
6
x fresh lasagne sheets, torn to size
500 g
bechamel or cheese sauce, we used Waitrose Cook’s Ingredients
75 g
Cheddar, grated

Directions

1. Step 1Heat the oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add the onion and a pinch of salt and cook for 10min, until softened. Stir in the garlic and dried herbs and cook for 1min, until fragrant. Increase heat to high and add the mince, stirring occasionally, until browned all over, about 10min.
2. Step 2Stir in the passata, sugar, stock cube and some seasoning, mixing until the stock cube dissolves. Remove pan from heat.
3. Step 3To assemble, spread 1/3 of the beef mixture in the base of the slow cooker bowl, then lay over 1/3 of the pasta sheets in a single layer to cover. Top with 1/3 of the bechamel or cheese sauce. Repeat layering twice more, ending with the bechamel or cheese sauce. Sprinkle over the Cheddar, cover and cook on low for 6hr.
4. Step 4Serve with a crisp green salad, if you like.

For a meat-free version swap the beef mince for a plant-based alternative and the stock cube for veggie.

If you like this recipe, you'll love our classic lasagne recipe.

For a cheat's version, check out our 5-ingredient meatball lasagne.

Per serving (based on 6 servings):

Calories: 375
Protein: 21g
Total fat: 23g
Saturates: 10g
Carbs: 20g
Total sugars: 9g
Fibre: 1g

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The Good Housekeeping Cookery Team

An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).

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