Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. 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. Lasagna noodles need structure—they have a lot of ingredients layered between them!—so they can't be too mushy.
Lasagna is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Lasagna is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lasagna using 21 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:
- Take For the meat sauce:
- Prepare Extra virgin olive oil
- Make ready 1 pound lean ground beef (chuck)
- Get 1/2 onion, diced (about 3/4 cup)
- Make ready 1/2 large bell pepper (green, red, or yellow), diced (about 3/4 cup)
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1 (28 ounce) can good quality tomato sauce
- Get 3 ounces (half a 6-oz can) tomato paste
- Get 1 (14 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- Take 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano, or 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- Get 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley (preferably flat leaf), packed
- Take 1 tablespoon Italian Seasoning
- Prepare Pinch garlic powder and/or garlic salt
- Take 1 tablespoon red or white wine vinegar
- Get 1 tablespoon to 1/4 cup sugar (to taste, optional)
- Make ready To taste Salt
- Make ready To assemble the lasagna:
- Make ready 1/2 lb dry lasagna noodles (requires 9 lasagna noodles - unbroken)
- Make ready 15 ounces Ricotta cheese
- Prepare 1 1/2 lb (24 ounces) Mozzarella cheese, grated or sliced
- Take 1/4 lb (4 ounces) freshly grated Parmesan cheese
I've been making lasagna for a long time, and there are quite a few variables to play with. 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. From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum ("cooking pot"), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, "trivet or stand for a pot"). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj, "almond cake").
Steps to make Lasagna:
- Put pasta water on to boil: Put a large pot of salted water (1 Tbsp salt for every 2 quarts of water) on the stovetop on high heat. It can take a while for a large pot of water to come to a boil (this will be your pasta water), so prepare the sauce in the next steps while the water is heating
- Brown the ground beef: In a large skillet heat 2 teaspoons of olive oil on medium high heat. Add the ground beef and cook until it is lightly browned on all sides.
- Remove the beef with a slotted spoon to a bowl. Drain off all but a tablespoon of fat.
- Cook the bell pepper, onions, garlic, add back the beef: Add the diced bell pepper and onions to skillet (in the photo we are using yellow bell pepper and red onions).
- Cook for 4 to 5 minutes, until the onions are translucent and the peppers softened. Add the minced garlic and cook half a minute more.
- Return the browned ground beef to the pan. Stir to combine, reduce the heat to low and cook for another 5 minutes.
- Transfer to medium sized pot, add tomatoes and remaining sauce ingredients to build the sauce: Transfer the beef mixture to a medium sized (3- to 4-quart) pot. Add the crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste to the pot.
- Add the parsley, oregano, and Italian seasonings, adjusting the amounts to taste. Sprinkle with garlic powder and/or garlic salt, to taste.
- Sprinkle with red or white wine vinegar. Stir in sugar, a tablespoon at a time, tasting after each addition, to taste. (The amount of sugar needed will vary, depending on how acidic the tomatoes are that you are using.)
- Add salt to taste. Bring the sauce to a simmer and then lower the heat to maintain a low simmer. Cook for 15 to 45 minutes, stirring often.
- Boil and drain the lasagna noodles: By now the salted water you started heating in step one should be boiling. Add the dry lasagna noodles and cook them to al dente, per package directions.
- Heat the oven 375F. Assemble the lasagna: In a 9x13-inch casserole or lasagna dish, ladle a cup of sauce and spread it over the bottom of the dish. Arrange one layer of lasagna noodles lengthwise (about 3 long noodles, edge may overlap, depending on your pan) over the sauce. Ladle a third of the remaining sauce over the noodles.
- Sprinkle a layer of a third of the grated mozzarella on top of lasagna sauce. Add half of the ricotta cheese, by placing cheese dollops every couple inches. Sprinkle half the grated parmesan cheese evenly over the top of ricotta cheese
- Apply second layer of noodles, top it with half of the remaining sauce. Add half of the remaining Mozzarella, the remaining ricotta cheese, and another the remaining Parmesan.
- Finish with another layer of noodles. Spread the remaining sauce over the top layer of noodles and sprinkle with the remaining Mozzarella cheese.
- Bake at 375°F for 45 minutes. Uncover in the last 10 minutes if you'the like more of a crusty top or edges.Cool and serve
Layers of flat lasagna noodles baked with alternating layers of slow-cooked Bolognese sauce, bechamel, and Parmesan cheese. 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. Lasagna Bolognese is a typical dish of Emilia Romagna, in particular of the city of Bologna.
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