Lasagna
Lasagna

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The ultimate comfort food lasagna, with layers of rich homemade meat sauce, creamy béchamel sauce , noodles , cheese and fresh mozzarella. Recipes and tips for terrific lasagna. Get traditional Italian versions and vegetarian lasagna recipes.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lasagna using 28 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:
  1. Make ready Meat Sauce:
  2. Take 500 gr minced meat (beef/chicken/pork-your choice)
  3. Get 75 gr green celery - sliced/grated
  4. Get 50 gr carrots - cubed/grated
  5. Prepare 50 gr zucchini-sliced/grated
  6. Take 75 gr onion - sliced/grated
  7. Take 250 ml tomato puree
  8. Make ready 50 ml red wine (optional)
  9. Take 200 ml chicken stock / water
  10. Prepare 25 gr garlic (optional)
  11. Get 1 tbsp Salt
  12. Make ready 1 tsp Pepper
  13. Make ready pinch Dried oregano
  14. Make ready pinch Dried thyme
  15. Take 1-2 pcs Bay leaves
  16. Prepare 3 tbsp cooking oil
  17. Make ready Bechamel Sauce:
  18. Get 100 gr Butter
  19. Get 4 tbsp All purpose flour
  20. Take 300-400 ml Milk
  21. Prepare 1 tsp Salt
  22. Make ready 1/2 tsp Pepper
  23. Make ready 1/2 tsp chicken powder
  24. Get pinch nutmeg powder
  25. Take Pasta:
  26. Make ready 10-12 pcs Lasagna
  27. Take 1 ltr boiling water
  28. Prepare 50 gr grated parmesan cheese (garnish)

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Instructions to make Lasagna:
  1. Prepare the meat sauce: slice the vegetables, onions.
  2. Heat a pot with 3 tbsp cooking oil. Add in the onions and garlic. Stir it for 2 minutes until it gives good fragrance.
  3. Put in the sliced vegetables (celery, carrot, zucchini). Stir it evenly for 3 minutes.
  4. Put in the minced meat into the mixture. Stir it evenly with the vegetables. Cook it until the meat is well cooked for 5 minutes.
  5. Add in the red wine if you do use it. Let it evaporate for 5 minutes. (Omit/skip this step if you do not use it)
  6. Add the tomato puree and chicken stock/water. Mix them well together.
  7. Add the seasoning: salt, pepper, dried oregano, dried thyme, bay leaf. Let it cook until the sauce thicken. Keep stirring it to avoid the bottom of sauce get burned.
  8. After it is thickened, keep the sauce aside.
  9. Prepare a pot with 1 liter boiling water - Cook the lasagna pasta to half cooked in order to ease the baking process later on. The cooked pasta has to be transferred to the cold water to stop the cooking process. Cook 3-4 pieces once in a pot to make us easier to remove the pasta out, because the pasta can stick each other.
  10. Lay the cooked pasta on the clean kitchen towel so it will not stick each other.
  11. We are now half way through the cooking process. Let us prepare the bechamel sauce.
  12. In a small pot or sauce pan, heat/melt the butter, lower the heat and add the 4 tablespoon all purpose flour. Stir it to mix with the butter.
  13. In a batch, slowly add the milk and mix them well with the whisk. Keep whisking it to avoid the bottom part got burned. Cook it in the medium heat. Add the milk again and keep whisking.
  14. If the bechamel sauce is too thick, you may add another 50 ml milk and whisk it again.
  15. Lower the heat, give the sauce taste with salt, pepper, chicken powder and nutmeg powder / grated nutmeg.
  16. Switch off the heat and keep it aside.
  17. Assembly time: Get your baking bowl, or any bowl that reheatable in high heat oven. Smear your bowl with butter/margarine.
  18. Place the cooked pasta in the bottom of the pan, add a laddle of meat sauce on it, a laddle of bechamel sauce, evenly spread out on the pasta.
  19. A layer is done, keep adding the layer of pasta, meat sauce and bechamel sauce.
  20. At the last layer of lasagna, spread more bechamel sauce on it and cover it with grated parmesan cheese.
  21. Place in the lasagna in the oven and bake it for 15 minutes with 175 C to 200 C depends how big your lasagna.
  22. Remove it your lasagna, becareful it is very hot. Slice it out and enjoy your lasagna.

You can even serve it with eggs for breakfast. This lasagna recipe is super simple to make, and so flavorful. It's perfect for potlucks and other The site may earn a commission on some products. It couldn't be easier to make. Pasta noodles piled high and layered full of three kinds of cheese to go along with the perfect blend of meaty and zesty, tomato pasta sauce all loaded with herbs.

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