Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lasagna is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lasagna is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin 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
- Get 1 medium carrot
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic
- Take 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)
- Take 4 tbsp concentrate tomato paste
- Get 1 mozzarella di bufala (optional but soooo much better ;P)
- Prepare 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
- Get 1-2 glasses red wine
- Prepare 1 gentle cube of butter (for the oven plate)
- Prepare For Lasagna:
- Prepare Béchamel (enough to slightly cover every layer): this is optional and you can get your favorite recipe from cookpad ;)
- Take 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)
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 ;)
So that is going to wrap this up for this special food lasagna recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am confident that you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
