Mausers and Muffins - Italian Style

It all started with a historial old rifle and a muffin tin. Mausers and Muffins.

This morning started with Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins. After Cirque du Bacon yesterday, I wanted to make something low fat (well they were until I added cinnamon butter) and whole grain. I am not going to give up either my bacon or my Jamesons, but blog friend Maura has got me thinking about using the best quality natural ingredients in my cooking and she has some wonderful recipes for the nutrition and taste minded. After breakfast, I started looking through her blog archives and there they were. Little nuggets of pasta goodness.

Our friend North had already made them for his wife and son, they looked so good it just called for a Range adaption! Mine had extra mushrooms, a splash of wine and wild honey in the sauce, some dried peppers and some summer savory and a couple of other herbs. I rarely measure anything unless I'm making bread or pastry but I try and give you an accurate measurement in the recipe so you can recreate at home.


Lasagna Bites - Range Style.

They're little individual lasagnas made using the freshest of ingredients, baked in a muffin cup, using Wonton wrappers instead of noodles (not to be confused with wanton wrappers which you can buy at Victoria's Secret).

You press a wonton wrapper into the muffin tin and fill it with meat sauce made with ground turkey and spices and top with ricotta with a hint of cracked pepper and basil


Sprinkle on a blend of five cheeses. Then, gently press another wonton wrapper on top of the ricotta layer, pressing down into the sides of the tin to form a shallow bowl shape.

Repeat the meat sauce, ricotta and cheese layers and bake for less than 15 minutes. The top edges of the wontons get crispy, the supporting structure is softer, with just enough bite to it to support the cheesy filling well.

click on photos to enlarge, you know the drill

As my meat filling was pretty chunky with the extra mushrooms, it was a bit more than a bite, but definitely worth the time, and the fork.

They're good for you, but don't eat too many, lest your pants get too tight.