Easiest Way to Prepare Favorite Lasagna

Lasagna.

Hey everyone, it's Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a special dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lasagna is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lasagna is something which I've loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lasagna using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:

1. {Take of For the Ragú (meat filling).
2. {Make ready of medium red onion.
3. {Make ready of medium carrot.
4. {Prepare of garlic.
5. {Get of laurel leave.
6. {Make ready of minced beef (can also be mix of pork and beef).
7. {Take of passata di pomodoro (better with basil).
8. {Prepare of concentrate tomato paste.
9. {Make ready of mozzarella di bufala (optional but soooo much better ;P).
10. {Make ready of Grated parmigiano reggiano (enough to cover 3-4 layers in your oven plate).
11. {Make ready of stock cubes (meat) - can be replaced by salt and pepper.
12. {Take of olive oil.
13. {Make ready of red wine.
14. {Prepare of gentle cube of butter (for the oven plate).
15. {Prepare of For Lasagna:.
16. {Prepare of Béchamel (enough to slightly cover every layer): this is optional and you can get your favorite recipe from cookpad ;).
17. {Get of 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).

Steps to make Lasagna:

1. For Bolognese:.
2. Grind onion, carrot and garlic, small but not to a paste.
3. Put oil in big frying pan (enough to cover the whole surface), medium fire.
4. Pour the ground vegetables and cook until carrot is tender (~5min).
5. 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).
6. When red wine has been absorbed, add the stock cubes (or salt and pepper) and mix well.
7. 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).
8. The Lasagna magic:.
9. Heat oven at 170C (~340F).
10. Rub butter all around the surface of your deep oven plate.
11. 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.
12. Put in oven and let cook the time and heat the pasta instructions say (usually 170C/340F, 30 min, both up & down).
13. Change to gratin mode for the last 5 minutes for an extra touch.
14. If you can resist, leave it rest a bit after heating... Lasagna is better the more time the pasta has to absorb the bolognese ;).

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