The traditional Italian lasagna dish has won many fans in our country over the past few decades. This dish is a baked puff cake with various fillings. Classical lasagna is prepared with minced meat, mushrooms and cheese. A recipe for lasagna with chicken and mushrooms is widely distributed. And some mistresses, for speed, prepare lasagna from lavash.
Anyway, the main feature of this Italian dish is its stunning taste and juiciness. Every woman can learn how to cook lasagna - start with the classic recipes for cooking this dish and you will succeed!
Classic lasagna with minced meat and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- 300 g of lasagna sheets;
- 300 g of hard cheese;
- 300 g of minced meat (pork or beef);
- 600 g of tomatoes;
- 300 g of mushrooms;
- 1 onion;
- 2 cloves garlic;
- 1/2 cup of wine;
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste or ketchup;
- 1 tablespoon dry oregano;
- pepper, salt to taste.
For sauce:
- 0.5 liters of milk;
- 50 g of butter;
- 50 g of flour;
- 70 g of Parmesan cheese;
- salt.
When preparing classic lasagna, sheets of dough can be made on their own - they are prepared in the same way as homemade noodles. For speed, you can use special ready-made lasagna sheets, which you can buy at the supermarket.
The first step is to prepare the vegetables - peel the tomatoes and grate them, cut the mushrooms, chop the onions, and pass the garlic through the press. Onions and garlic should be transferred to a pan and fried in butter. After 2 minutes, they should be added to the stuffing and mix well. After that, add the tomato paste, grated tomatoes and mushrooms to the stuffing, and fry until the liquid evaporates. In the end, you should add salt and pepper, take the meat and vegetables from the fire and cool.
Next, you need to prepare lasagna sauce. To do this, in the pan, melt the butter, add flour to it, lightly fry this mixture and pour the milk in a thin trickle. Sauce should be cooked for 15 minutes, after which it should be added grated cheese and salt. Put the pan on the oil and lay the lasagna sheets on it so that one slightly "treads" on the other. On the sheets you need to lay out the cooked meat stuffing and top with sauce. Cover the filling with sheets and repeat the procedure. Thus, we get several layers. On top of the lasagne should be covered with sheets and sprinkled with grated cheese. Lasagne with meat should be baked for 30 minutes in the oven, heated to 220 degrees.
Serve classic meat lasagna should be hot.
Lasagna in Neapolitan
Ingredients:
- 16 sheets for lasagna;
- 300 g ground beef;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 4 eggs;
- 600 g of tomato paste;
- a bunch of celery;
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- salt and pepper to taste.
The first step is to prepare a tomato sauce. Onions, carrots and celery should be finely chopped, garlic - let through the press, and fry all vegetables in olive oil. To vegetables, add tomato paste and boil the whole mixture for 30 minutes on low heat. In a separate bowl, mix ground beef, 1 raw egg, salt, pepper and grated cheese. From the received weight it is necessary to blind small
The baking tray should be greased with butter and a small amount of tomato sauce, after which lay on it several sheets for lasagna. They need to lay eggs, put a few meatballs, pour tomato sauce and cover with new sheets. On the second layer of the sheets you should lay the cottage cheese and sprinkle it with grated cheese. Thus, it is necessary to form several layers of lasagna, top it with a dough and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake the lasagna for 30 minutes in a hot oven.
Italian lasagna is an ideal dish for experiments. Each hostess can experiment in her own way with the filling. Adherents of vegetarian cuisine can prepare vegetable lasagna. For those who do not have time, there is a recipe for lazy meat lasagna with ham (a long-filled meat filling should be replaced with chopped ham). This extraordinary dish is a real delight for children and adults.