Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little 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. 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 meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lasagna is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lasagna using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:
- Take For the Ragú (meat filling)
- Get 1 medium red onion
- Prepare 1 medium carrot
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 laurel leave
- Prepare 700 gr minced beef (can also be mix of pork and beef)
- Get 1 kg passata di pomodoro (better with basil)
- Make ready 4 tbsp concentrate tomato paste
- Make ready 1 mozzarella di bufala (optional but soooo much better ;P)
- Get Grated parmigiano reggiano (enough to cover 3-4 layers in your oven plate)
- Take 1-2 stock cubes (meat) - can be replaced by salt and pepper
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1-2 glasses red wine
- Make ready 1 gentle cube of butter (for the oven plate)
- Make ready For Lasagna:
- Prepare Béchamel (enough to slightly cover every layer): this is optional and you can get your favorite recipe from cookpad ;)
- Prepare Dry lasagna pasta (deCecco, Opera or other brand recommended by an italian or found in italian food store - preferably that does not need previous cooking)
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.
Instructions to make Lasagna:
- For Bolognese:
- Grind onion, carrot and garlic, small but not to a paste
- Put oil in big frying pan (enough to cover the whole surface), medium fire
- Pour the ground vegetables and cook until carrot is tender (~5min)
- Add meat, let it cook a bit and then add the red wine (just enough to cover the meat, 1 glass should be enough but depends on your frying pan size)
- When red wine has been absorbed, add the stock cubes (or salt and pepper) and mix well
- Add the passata di pomodoro, the concentrate tomato paste and the laurel leave. Cover the pan and let it cook in low fire until done (at least 1h)
- The Lasagna magic:
- Heat oven at 170C (~340F)
- Rub butter all around the surface of your deep oven plate
- Put a layer of dry lasagne pasta, one of bolognese, a bit of béchamel, a bit of the mozzarela di buffala and enough grated parmigiano to slightly cover the layer. Repeat until the oven plate is full (usually 3-4 layers). The top layer has pasta, then just béchamel and parmigiano on the top
- Put in oven and let cook the time and heat the pasta instructions say (usually 170C/340F, 30 min, both up & down)
- Change to gratin mode for the last 5 minutes for an extra touch
- If you can resist, leave it rest a bit after heating… Lasagna is better the more time the pasta has to absorb the bolognese ;)
In Italy Lasagna Bolognese is a typical Sunday lunch dish or the main course for festivities and anniversaries. 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"). For everybody that loves to cook lasagna at home! 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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