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Lasagna recipe!!!
After suffering in the god dam heat all day, with a whingy baby and a whingy dog :rolleyes: i've decided to go down to MIL's (whos away on holiday) steal her aircon, do some washing and ironing and make a yummy dinner for my dp! So yeah hit me with your best lasagne recipes!!!!
I make mine with half beef mince, half pork mince, onion, garlic, and cook all that. I sometimes add bacon too! Add a normal italian pasta tomato sauce and then a "nice" jar with flavours you like in it. I then add vegies, like mushrooms, zucchini and carrot, seasoning like fresh herbs and salt and pepper, and let it cook for ages. Make it a 'bit' watery because the sheets soak up a bit of moisture as well. Sorry not sure of quantities I just bung it all in a giant pot!
There was a thread a while back on lasgana recipes!!
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...9-lasange.html
enjoy YUMMO
Ashlea's Lasagne
(serves 6-8 adults - depending on whether or not you serve a side dish)
NB: This really isn't 'traditional' per se, it is bulked out with veges.
Anthony calls it Ashlea Lasagne, because it's not like traditional Lasagne.
For Meat Sauce
500gms Minced Meat (I use beef usually but you could use lamb, pork or chicken too)
1 Onion (medium sized)
4 Rashers Middle Bacon
Large Dolmio (or of your choice, I think size is about 700ml)
1 Zucchini
10-12 Mushrooms
1 Capsicum
1 Carrot
For Bechamel Sauce
I am guessing on these amounts so don't take my word for it
4 Tblspn Butter/Marg
1/2 cup flour
1 Litre of Milk
Dice all veges to sizes of your preference (I grate carrot, others are all small chunks)
Brown onion and bacon, then add mince until browned right through. Add jar of sauce (rinsing it out with 1/2 - 1 cup of water), then all veges, simmer for twenty to thirty minutes.
You can add spices to suit your preference. I use whatever I feel like at the time.
Melt butter, take off heat and add flour, whisking together. Consistency should be paste like - not too runny but not so that there are thick bits sticking to your whisk... (practice makes perfect, it took me two years to be able to get my bechamel right). Add milk and continue to stir. Don;t let it come to the boil as if it does, it will stick to the bottom of the pan. Can take 15mins+ to thicken. Alternatively some people put a little bit of milk at a time.
Layering
By my estimates I use a 13x9x2 inch casserole dish.
Meat Sauce
Lasagne Sheets
Bechamel Sauce
Grated Cheese
Meat Sauce
Lasagne Sheets
Bechamel Sauce
Grated Cheese
Meat Sauce
Lasagne Sheets
Bechamel Sauce
Grated Cheese
Meat Sauce
Lasagne Sheets
Bechamel Sauce
Cover with foil and cook in a 200 degree oven for 30 mins.
Uncover and top with grated cheese (and tomato slices if you want it to look fancy), cook for a further 10-20 mins at 180 degrees or until cheese is brown.
There are a few therads on this actually. Mine is a veg lasagne, I'll hunt down the link for you it think there were a few recipes in it.
ETA I lied i could only find mine here
I did a thread yonks ago too......
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...l-secrets.html
i make a pasta bake more so than lasagne - made it last night, and my bro's kids who are rather finicky eaters (esp the littlest) came back for seconds last night and have just had two serves for lunch today!
i essentially do meat (about 500g), onion (one or two), jar of sauce (or two), veg (spud, carrot, capsicum, zucchini) cut up small to bulk it out. cook pasta and whack it in the pan to mix through. dump that in the lasagne tray, top with cheesy white sauce, chuck in the oven and hey presto - delish!
so you dont need to pre-cook the mince?
what kind of pasta do you use, something like penne?
I do this when i cant be bothered messing around with lasagne sheets... i am more indulgent with the bechamel in this too :D:
ooh i'm very indulgent in the white sauce for pasta bake - i add fresh parmesan to the white sauce before the milk, lat night was 300ml of cream and then milk to add more volume - then add extra handful (or two) of grated tasty cheese
mmm, left overs were sooooooooooo good at lunch!
ohh can you tell me recipe for your yummy sounding bechamel sauce as i use jar!
I pre-cook the meat, so it doesn't take so long in the oven (i just wait for the cheese on top to melt and go brown).
okies - this is going for guess work - i don't measure anything at all!
basically have everything ready to go, and don't stop stirring - keep to a low heat the whole time - i start with a spoon until i add liquids, then the whisk come outs! the amounts i'm stating filled a large-ish saucepan - enough to top a lasagne tray about half inch thick and have a little left over
- in a saucepan heat an amount of margarine or butter til it melts - last night, i think it was about 4 tablespoons full
- when it's melted, start gradually adding plain flour until all the butter is absorbed - cook it off a little as it gives it more flavour - but don't burn it - you just want it really lightly colored so you don't get a floury taste
- add a little bit of water just to make it a bit pasty so that it doesn't stick while you mix in next stuff - only a little bit - if i'm making this sauce to go over caulli/brocolli, i use some of the juices from that for extra taste
- add some parmesan cheese - either fresh grated, or grated in a bag as a minimum - none of this jarred kraft spew cheese - it just doesn't taste right - i'd say it was about quarter of a cup last night.
- pour in cream - last night was about 300ml - add it gradually and whisk away to make a thick creamy texture, without lumps - it will probably have a bit of a yellowish tinge - not a drama - just keep stirring!
- once cream is mixed through, add milk gradually - add a little bit, then mix it through - don't add a heap at once or you're more likely to get lumps. keep mixing until the milk is taken up nicely. keep going til you have a decent volume and reasonable consitency - you don't want it runny - needs to be a little bit thick but not too thick - just keep adding a little at a time - patience is a virtue! lol
- when you have it almost done, whack in a handful or two of grated tasty cheese - and mix it through - as the cheese melts it will thicken up a bit, and as soon as it's mixed through and melted, kill the heat.
if this is the first time you've done your own cheesy sauce at home, sample before you add to any food to make sure it hasn't come out floury at all - if you cooked the flour off, it should be fine, but you want to check first! with the amount of cheese in it, it's definitely more of a cheese sauce than a white/bechamal sauce!
we use this same sauce as a base for vegie bake too - dice up a bit of everything (spud, sweet spud, carrot, turnip, onion, swede, parsnip, zucchini, boiled caulli and broccoli), stir fry it in a light garlic butter, stir through this sauce, whack it in a pan, and bake away. freezes really well and is so tasty (and relatively healthy - if you ignore how rich the sauce is!)
ooh, for meat part - if you have a jar of spag sauce, follow those destructions - but bulk it out with veg for extra flavour and nutrition!
Yummo thanks will try that when i next cook lasgana!!
Just wanted to say Ray Rays veg one is awesome, DD shovels it in..
Well after asking the question.. i wrote out the recipes and forgot to take it to mil :doh: BUT I got there and just went hrmm that will do.. ahahah just put some mince, garlic, onion, bacon, tinned tomatos.. some herbs... had to do it without the bechamel sauce but it came out friggen awesome!!!!! dp scoffed it down and my BF scoffed it down too lol not bad for a/ my first time and b/no recipe LOL next time i will follow a recipe! thanks for all the replies... btw ray ray's sounds yummo
I made BGs tonight for dinner and it was yum-o.
woo hoo rayray - i'm so glad you managed to make it! and that my white sauce destructions were ok - it's not an easy thing to type out when you just do it by memory - mum taught me basic white sauce, then i made it my own - even she now asks me to make white sauce if i'm there cos i make it better than her!