Crab Lasagna

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Butter (1 stick)
1/2 Cup Flour
3 Cloves Garlic Minced
2 Cups Milk
2 Cups Chicken Broth or Stock
1/8 tsp Ground Red Pepper
Pinch of Salt and nutmeg
2 Cups Cottage Cheese
1 Egg
2 Tbs Parsley
2 Tbs Italian Seasoning
1/2 tsp Pepper
3 Cups Mozzarella Cheese Grated
1/2 Cup Parmesan Cheese Grated
3 Cups Crab
1 Box Lasagna Noodles (Oven Ready)

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Combine butter and flour in a saucepan and whisk over medium heat until smooth and bubbly.  Add milk, broth, red and black pepper, nutmeg, salt, and garlic whisking vigorously.  Reduce heat to medium and continue stirring until cream sauce is a desired thickness.  I like my cream sauce rather thin, so I add a little water or cream to it to thin it out.
Mix all reaming ingredients excluding the noodles and grated cheese, in a mixing bowl, stir until combined well.  In a 9x13 baking dish, ladle in 2 cups of cream sauce in the bottom.  Layer uncooked pasta on top of sauce.  Then add half of the crab filling and cover with another layer of lasagna noodles, repeat.  Once all the crab filling is covered with noodles add remaining cream sauce into the pan.
You can add the cheese now and bake, but I would recommend waiting until the last 20 minutes of baking to add the cheese otherwise it gets lost.  It's your choice.
Bake lasagna for 1 hour.  Let cool for at least 10 minutes before diving in, otherwise you'll have a scalded mouth and it gives the cheese sometime to recombine.  This makes amazing left overs!  I swear it tastes even better the next day.

I received this recipe from my best friend.  It has been a favorite of ours for a long time.  We go crabbing quite a bit and we always want to make crab lasagna afterwards.  Usually by the time we boil the crabs an pick them there isn't enough crab meat left to make a lasagna or really anything.  We eat most of the crab while picking because we're still really slow at it and why not enjoy fresh crab especially if you have it.  I make my crab lasagna with imitation crab because... I'm cheap and I eat all the crab I pick