Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lasagna is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Lasagna is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lasagna using 19 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:
- Make ready small packet Lardons
- Make ready 1 red onion
- Make ready 2 stalks celery
- Get 2 carrots
- Get 2 cloves garlic
- Prepare Olive oil
- Prepare 1 kg minced beef or pork or mix of both
- Get 1 leaf Bay
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Oregano
- Make ready 500 ml beef stock
- Get Glass red wine (optional)
- Get 1 can chopped tomatoes
- Prepare 2 tablespoons tomatoe purée
- Prepare 300 g Fresh lasagne sheets if available
- Get Bechamel sauce
- Prepare 70 g unsalted butter
- Make ready 70 g flour
- Prepare 700 ml milk
- Prepare 100 g Parmesan cheese grated
Instructions to make Lasagna:
- Start by finely chopping the onion, celery and carrot. Also finely chop the garlic cloves
- Put couple tablespoons of olive oil pan and cook the lardons and cook for a few minutes. You can also use streaky bacon
- Once the bacon has started to turn golden, add the chopped vegetables and cook for 5-10 mins until they soften.
- Add the chopped garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes
- Add the minced meat and break up into small pieces using wooden spoon. Continue doing as you brown the mince.
- Once the mince has started to brown add the chopped tomatoes, tomatoes purée and the stock. Stir, add salt, pepper, bay leaf and half teaspoon of oregano. Cover and simmer gently for at least 1 hour
- Begin the béchamel sauce. Take a heavy bottomed pan and melt the butter (not too hot). Add the flour and stir continuously. After 2 minutes add the milk slowly - 100ml at a time.
- This stage requires continuous stirring and a little patience. Wait for sauce to thicken before adding more milk. Once done you’ll have a nice consistency.
- Pre heat oven to gas mark 6 - 200C
- Now to assemble the lasagna. In your backing dish, thinly cover the bottom with white sauce. Then lay a covering of the lasagna sheets. It’s ok to overlap them.
- Now cover with 1/3 of the white sauce followed by half the meat. Sprinkle with handful of grated Parmesan. Cover with next layer of sheets
- Repeat with white sauce, meat sauce and sheets
- Finally cover with remaining white sauce and remaining cheese.
- Pop in the oven for 35 mins, put your feet up and look forward to a delicious meal!
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