Lasagne | Lasagna

Step by step description of a delicious lasagne recipe with home made Béchamel sauce and pasta that's big enough to feed the extended family.

Ingredients

2kg mince half beef half pork
150g bacon
4 carrots
3 onions
100g celery root
2 cloves of garlic
200g mushrooms
500g passata
1 Tsbp tomato mark
350ml stock
250ml red wine
400ml milk
salt, pepper

400g flour
4 eggs
salt

150g butter
150g flour
1L milk
100g parmesan cheese
100g emmentaler cheese
nutmeg (optional)
salt, pepper

Method for Meat Sauce

  1. Dice bacon into small pieces and place in a cold pot over medium heat.

  2. Cut carrots, onion, garlic and celery root into large chunks, place in food processor and process until finely chopped.

  3. Once bacon has rendered fat add finely chopped vegetables into the pot.

  4. Once vegetables have cooked for about 10 minutes add mince to the pot and brown.

  5. Add tomato mark and cook.

  6. Deglaze with red wine.

  7. Add milk and cook until milk has evaporated.

  8. Add beef stock and keep cooking till half of the liquid has evaporated.

  9. Add Passata and same amount of water to the pot.

  10. Stir in mushrooms and herbs.

  11. Bring to a boil, turn heat to low and let cook for two hours.

  12. Meat sauce finished!

Method for Pasta

  1. Add salt to flour and mix.

  2. Pour flour onto a work surface.

  3. Form a well in the middle of the flour and add eggs into the well.

  4. Mix and knead to a smooth dough.

  5. Cover dough and let rest in fridge for 1 hour.

  6. Roll out dough into square sheets.

  7. Cut sheets into the size of your pan.

  8. Pasta done!

Method for Béchamel Sauce

  1. Melt butter in a pot.

  2. Add flour to melted butter and mix. Continue mixing over medium heat for about one minute.

  3. Slowly add milk and keep whisking till all milk is added and sauce is thick.

  4. Add cheeses, salt and pepper.

  5. Béchamel sauce ready!

Layering Lasagne

  1. Butter baking dish well.

  2. Start with meat sauce. Then pasta. Meat sauce again. Then drizzle Béchamel sauce.

  3. Continue layering pasta, meat sauce and Béchamel sauce till pan is full.

  4. Last two layers should be pasta and Béchamel sauce on top.

  5. Sprinkle cheeses over the top and let sit for one hour.

  6. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

  7. Bake Lasagne for 30 minutes oder until brown on top.

  8. Take out the oven and let it cool for about 25-30 minutes before cutting.

  9. ENJOY!

 
 

Step by step description of a delicious lasagne recipe with home made Béchamel sauce and pasta that's big enough to feed the extended family. Recipe Link: ht...