Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lasagna. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, 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. It is possibly one of the most loved foods in the whole wide world, and There is just something so sentimental about lasagna, so comforting.
Lasagna is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Lasagna is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lasagna using 28 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:
- Take Meat Sauce:
- Take 500 gr minced meat (beef/chicken/pork-your choice)
- Prepare 75 gr green celery - sliced/grated
- Take 50 gr carrots - cubed/grated
- Take 50 gr zucchini-sliced/grated
- Prepare 75 gr onion - sliced/grated
- Take 250 ml tomato puree
- Make ready 50 ml red wine (optional)
- Prepare 200 ml chicken stock / water
- Get 25 gr garlic (optional)
- Get 1 tbsp Salt
- Take 1 tsp Pepper
- Prepare pinch Dried oregano
- Make ready pinch Dried thyme
- Make ready 1-2 pcs Bay leaves
- Take 3 tbsp cooking oil
- Get Bechamel Sauce:
- Get 100 gr Butter
- Make ready 4 tbsp All purpose flour
- Prepare 300-400 ml Milk
- Make ready 1 tsp Salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp chicken powder
- Get pinch nutmeg powder
- Get Pasta:
- Take 10-12 pcs Lasagna
- Get 1 ltr boiling water
- Make ready 50 gr grated parmesan cheese (garnish)
I've been making lasagna for a long time, and there are quite a few variables to play with. 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"). Lasagna is both a type of noodle and a dish made with that noodle; when pluralized, lasagna noodles are known as "lasagne".
Instructions to make Lasagna:
- Prepare the meat sauce: slice the vegetables, onions.
- Heat a pot with 3 tbsp cooking oil. Add in the onions and garlic. Stir it for 2 minutes until it gives good fragrance.
- Put in the sliced vegetables (celery, carrot, zucchini). Stir it evenly for 3 minutes.
- 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.
- 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)
- Add the tomato puree and chicken stock/water. Mix them well together.
- 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.
- After it is thickened, keep the sauce aside.
- 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.
- Lay the cooked pasta on the clean kitchen towel so it will not stick each other.
- We are now half way through the cooking process. Let us prepare the bechamel sauce.
- 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.
- 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.
- If the bechamel sauce is too thick, you may add another 50 ml milk and whisk it again.
- Lower the heat, give the sauce taste with salt, pepper, chicken powder and nutmeg powder / grated nutmeg.
- Switch off the heat and keep it aside.
- Assembly time: Get your baking bowl, or any bowl that reheatable in high heat oven. Smear your bowl with butter/margarine.
- 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.
- A layer is done, keep adding the layer of pasta, meat sauce and bechamel sauce.
- At the last layer of lasagna, spread more bechamel sauce on it and cover it with grated parmesan cheese.
- Place in the lasagna in the oven and bake it for 15 minutes with 175 C to 200 C depends how big your lasagna.
- Remove it your lasagna, becareful it is very hot. Slice it out and enjoy your lasagna.
Grated Parmesan cheese is often added to lasagnas. Lasagna Bolognese is a typical dish of Emilia Romagna, in particular of the city of Bologna. In Italy Lasagna Bolognese is a typical Sunday lunch dish or the main course for festivities and anniversaries. 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. Lasagna has many versions, both within Italy and around the world, but when we talk about "real" lasagna in Italy we mean "Lasagna alla Bolognese" i.e., from Bologna in the region of Emilia-Romagna.
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