Lasagna
CATEGORIES
Beef
Broil/Grill
Cheese
Crowd Cooking
Dairy
Dinner
Dinner Party
Easy Bake Oven
Fall
Flavors of Your Heritage
Homestyle Cooking
Instagrammable Foods
Intermediate
Italian
Kid Friendly
Lunch
Main Dish
Mediterranean
Misc. One Dish
Mix
Nostalgic Foods
Nutmeg
Old School Cooking
Olive Oil
Oven
Pasta
Picnic
Pork
Salsa
Savory
Savory Sauce
Seasoning
Spring
Stove
Stuffing
Tomatoes
Vegetable
Winter
INGREDIENTS
- Cooking Time: 20 min
- Servings: 6-8
- Preparation Time: for Ragù: at least 2 hours
- |Ragù
- - 700g Minced Meat, better if a mix of pork and beef
- - 1 Carrot
- - 1 Onion
- - 1 Celery
- - 400g Tomato Sauce
- - 1/2 glass of Red Wine
- - Salt
- - a drop of Milk
- |Besciamella
- - 40g Butter
- - 40g Flour
- - 500ml Milk
- - Salt
- - a pinch of Nutmeg
- |Pasta
- - Lasagne Sheet that doesn't need a pre-cook (such as those of Barilla, I don't know what your country sell)
DIRECTIONS
- First, let's start with the Ragù, because it takes longer. In a large pot add good olive oil and the chopped veggies for "soffritto" (aka carrot, onion, and celery). Cook at gentle heat for about 10 min or when the veggies are soft. Then turn up the flame and add the mix of minced meat and stirring for not to burn. Season with salt. When the meat it's nice brown, add the tomato sauce and low the heat. Then add red wine and milk, mix all together, cover and let cook for at least 2 hours. Remember to stirring occasionally!
- Now make the Besciamella sauce. In a large pot, melt the butter over low heat. You have to evaporate the water in the butter: when there are no more bubbles, it's ready for the next step. Add all the flour and mix very quickly with a whisk. Stir until the mixture will be nice and smooth. Cook for a few minutes. Then add in one shot all the cold milk in the mixture and mix quickly. Please don't burn it! Keep mix at low heat till the sauce become thicker. Cover for 5 min. When it's done, add salt and nutmeg.
- Let's build the Lasagna!
- In a Baking Tray with high sides, spread a bit of ragù sauce. This step is important so the pasta doesn't stick to the tray. Above, arrange the Lasagne Sheet to cover the tray. Then add some ragù sauce and besciamella. Repeat layers, and top with the remaining besciamella and add with a good sprinkling of grated Parmesan cheese. Cover with foil
- Bake in convection and preheated oven at 220° for 20 min. Remove foil and grill for 5 min. Cool for 10 min before serving.
- Enjoy!