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Easy Traeger smoked lasagna recipe is bursting with big smoke flavor. This unique smoker recipe puts a spin on the traditional oven baked lasagna that your gramma made. Let’s smoke lasagna… YUM!

Cheesy Traeger Smoked Lasagna With Ground Beef

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How long to smoke lasagna?

It will take you about an hour to smoke lasagna.

Can I prepare lasagna ahead of time?

Yes, you can definitely prepare lasagna ahead of time. In fact, I recommend that you do prepare it ahead of time to make things easier for you. Make it the morning of serving it, and just allow for 15 minutes of coming to room temperature time before smoking it. Or realize it might take a bit longer to smoke from cold out of the refrigerator.

What pellets should I use for smoked lasagna?

I used a signature Traeger blend of pellets for this Sip Bite Go smoker demo. It’s a blend of hickory, cherry, and maple. Hickory pellets or mesquite pellets are great choices and produce a rich smoke flavor while smoking pasta dishes.

What do I serve with smoked lasagna?

Try another smoked protein that cooks at the same time or smoker temperature like this smoked ham and smoked whole chicken.

Ingredients

Here’s what you need to make smoked lasagna.

You can get creative with your ingredients

For example, you can make a veggie lasagna, a smoked brats sausage lasagna…

Use just a simple tomato sauce or use meat sauces…

You can even use a creative cheese mixture with cottage cheese if you want.

The options are really endless. Just toss all your ingredients into a medium bowl, combine and mix, then layer them up in your lasagna.

Lasagna Smoked Main Dish Recipe On a Dinner Plate Next To A Casserole Dish

Here’s what I recommend if you want to follow my specific recipe:

For the ground beef filling

ground beef (substitute sausage, meatballs, spinach or mushrooms, etc)
olive oil
garlic
salt and pepper
Italian seasonings, dried
pasta sauce (any store bought marinara sauce works)

Cooked ground beef filling layer of smoked lasagna recipe — This is a thin layer of cooked, seasoned ground beef in the smoked lasagna baking dish.

Cheese filling for smoked lasagna

ricotta
egg
mozzarella cheese
parmesan cheese
garlic powder
nutmeg (optional)
salt and pepper

Layer of ricotta cheese mixture in smoked lasagna recipe with tomato sauce — Here’s what the layer of ricotta cheese mixture looks like in the smoked lasagna. The thin layer is made easy by using a spatula to smooth it around on the no boil lasagna noodle sheets.

For the assembling the smoked pasta dish

lasagna noodles, no boil preferred
pasta sauce
mozzarella
parmesan cheese

Traeger Pellet Grill Smoking Lasagna With Ground Beef

When it comes to smoked Italian foods, this recipe for pellet grill lasagna is right up there with smoked meatballs.

New to smoked food recipes and Traeger recipes? See my step by step video for beginners (scroll to bottom of page).

How to make smoked lasagna

Now I’ll walk you through it…

Infographic with recipe steps demonstrating how to smoke lasagna on traeger pellet grill with Jenna Passaro Sip Bite Go food blogger

Detailed recipe steps

Brown beef for smoked lasagna. Set a large skillet to medium-high heat on the stove. Add the ground beef, olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, and Italian seasonings. Keep breaking up the beef with a spatula and stirring occasionally around to brown. About 5 minutes into browning the ground beef, add pasta sauce. Stir until there is no pink left in the meat (~10 minutes or so). Chop the ground beef up into small pieces that will nicely melt into the lasagna as it cooks (no meatball size pieces!). Remove from heat and set aside.
Prep cheese filling for smoked lasagna. Add all of the smoked lasagna cheese filling ingredients to a large bowl. Mix until combined and set aside. If you’re using regular lasagna noodles, and not no-boil lasagna noodles, then you’ll want to cook them to super al dente during this time. (No-boil noodles just go into the lasagna crispy, without cooking first).
Preheat Traeger Grills or Pitt Boss or whatever pellet grill you’re using to 375 degrees F.
Assemble lasagna for smoking. First, set out a large 9×13 inch baking dish. Spread out a thin layer of ½ cup of sauce on the bottom of the pan. Then layer on lasagna noodles to cover the pan. Next, layer on a thin layer of the ricotta cheese with the help of a spatula (we used ⅓ to half the ricotta mixture in this first layer in the Sip Bite Go video). Then add a layer of cooked lasagna beef. Repeat 1-2 more times… (we made 4 layers of smoked pasta sheets in the Sip Bite Go recipe demonstration – and had a few sheets leftover).
Finish assembling the smoked lasagna. Add a final layer of lasagna noodles to cover the top layer to cover it completely. Then top with ½ cup shredded mozzarella and ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil.
Smoke lasagna at 375 degrees F for 40 – 45 minutes (covered with foil).
Uncover lasagna, then smoke at 400 degrees F for about 10-15 minutes, until top cheese is bubbly and browning a bit.
Rest Traeger smoker lasagna for 15-20 minutes before serving.