Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, the two cheeses lasagna. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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The two cheeses lasagna is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. The two cheeses lasagna is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have the two cheeses lasagna using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make The two cheeses lasagna:
- Prepare 60 grams chedder cheese
- Make ready 1 large carrot chopped into 1cm cubes
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped finely
- Take 1 Celery stalk finely chopped
- Prepare 500 grams minced beef
- Take 1 Glass Italian dry red wine
- Get 400 grams Tinned Chopped Tomatoes
- Prepare 1 tbsp Tomato puree
- Prepare 1 courgette chopped into 1cm cubes
- Make ready 9 Sheets fresh lasagne each about 10x18cm
- Prepare 1 Cold Salted butter cut into 1cm cubes
- Get 1 salt and pepper
- Prepare 100 grams Salted Butter
- Take 100 grams plain flour
- Get 1 liter full fat cold milk
- Get 50 grams freshly grated parmesan cheese
- Take 1/4 Freshly grated nutmeg
- Make ready 10 Basil leaves
- Get 3 tbsp olive oil
This is easy and satisfies everyone. I feel like the noodles get bloated and mushy, and the cheese never melts the same. But with this recipe, I don't have to worry about that! You just make it in a little loaf pan and it ends up being the perfect amount for two.
Steps to make The two cheeses lasagna:
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat and cook the onion,carrot and celery for five minutes. Add the minced beef and continue to cook for a further five minutes, stirring continuously, until coloured all over .Season with salt and pepper and continue to cook for five minutes stirring occasionally.
- Pour in the wine ,stir well and continue to cook for 5 minutes until the wine has evaporated. Add the chopped tomatoes, the tomato puree, the courgettes and the basil, lower the heat and continue to cook for one hour uncovered until you get a beautiful rich sauce. Stir occasionally. After about 30 minutes taste for seasoning.
- Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180C/350f/gas mark 4 and make the bechamel sauce. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in the cold milk ,reduce the heat and cook for 10 minutes whisking constantly. Once thickened stir in half of the parmesan cheese with the nutmeg. Season and set aside to cool slightly.
- Spread a quarter of the bechemel sauce in the base of a deep 2.2 litre oven proof dish. Cover with 3 lasagna sheets , cutting them if necessary to fit the dish. Spread with half the meat sauce then top with a third of the remaining bechemel sauce. Cover with 3 sheets of lasagna and with the remaining meat sauce. Spread over half of the remaining bechemel sauce then add a final layer of lasagna sheets and gently spread the rest of the bechemel sauce on top ensuring the lasagna sheets are completely covered.
- Sprinkle with the remaining parmesan and scatter over the cubed butter. Grind some black pepper over the whole lasagna
- Cook on the lowest shelf of the oven for 30 minutes then place the dish on the middle shelf ,raise the oven temperature to 200C gas mark 6 and continue to cook for a further 15 minutes until golden and crispy all over
Yeah, you'll probably still end up with a little leftover, but you can handle that. Is there anything better then lasagna loaded with cheese? This lasagna is optimized for two things: being both delicious and easy. Those are probably the two biggest shortcuts that help make this lasagna a breeze, because then all you have to do is brown some meat and add tomato sauce to it, and layer it in a pan with a ricotta mixture, no-boil noodles, and. Now that it's just me and my husband at most dinners, a big lasagna becomes a burden with the leftovers which I don't like to either freeze or eat for days on end This version is much smaller, but with all the same flavor you'd expect.
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