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Preheat your oven to 450 degrees.
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Spray down a large cookie sheet with cooking spray and arragne the eggplant in a single layer on the cookie sheet (In order to get all the eggplant done this may have to be done in batches).
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Brush the eggplant down with some Olive Oil and season with salt and pepper.
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Put in your preheated oven for 15 minutes Once it's done, take the eggplant out and let it cool and lower your oven down to 350 degrees.
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In the meantime, get a sautee pan nice and hot and put some olive oil in it (about a tablespoon) and sautee your onions for about 3 mins just until they are translusent.
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Once the onions are translusent add the garlic and sautee for another 1 or 2 minutes (be sure not to burn the garlic).
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Once the onions and garlic are sauteed add the turkey to the pan and brown.
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5.After you brown the turkey mix in the marina and 1/2 of the fresh basil, 1/2 of the fresh parsley.
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Bring to a boil and then reduce to simmer.
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In a separate mixing bowl, mix the cottage cheese, 1/2 of the grated cheese, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flakes, remainder of the basil and parsley and mix all of it together until it's well combined.
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In a lasagna pan, put a little bit of the sauce and meat mixture and spread it out to cover the bottom of the dish.
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Then layer a single layer of the eggplant rounds (I overlap mine a little so that there is no open space between them).
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Then put 1/3 of the cottage cheese mixutre then 1/3 of the meat sauce mixture.
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Then layer the sliced mozzarella (approx.
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6 slices) top with 1/3 of the of the remaining grated cheese.
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Then repeat the layers, eggplant, cottage cheese, meat sauce, cheese.
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And then again.
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The last layer should be eggplant, then meat sauce, mozzarella and grated cheese.
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Once it's all assembled, cover with foil (lightly so that the foil doesn't touch the cheese - you could also put toothpicks in to hold the foil up) and put in the 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.
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After 30 mins take off the foil and put it back in the oven for another 10 mins until the cheese is bubbly and hot.
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When it's all done, take it out of the oven and let it sit for about 15 mins to set.
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Enjoy!
