Meat lasagna

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make meat lasagna? Prepare the necessary ingredients. You can use any minced meat, I used pork and beef. I use ready-made sheets, but you can prepare them yourself. Take the best quality cheese, without milk fat substitutes, one that melts well.

2. STEP 2

   

   Start with the Bolognese meat sauce. How to make Bolognese sauce? Wash the onions, peel and finely chop.

3. STEP 3

   

   Wash the carrots, peel and grate on a coarse grater.

4. STEP 4

   

   In a frying pan with olive oil, fry the onion until golden brown, stirring occasionally to avoid burning.

5. STEP 5

   

   Add carrots, stir. Sauté vegetables over medium heat until soft, about 5 minutes.

6. STEP 6

   

   Place the minced meat in the pan and stir. Fry the minced meat, stirring occasionally, until the color changes, about 10 minutes.

7. STEP 7

   

   Remove the skin from the tomato and then grate it.

8. STEP 8

   

   Add tomato puree and tomato paste to the minced meat, add water, salt and stir. Simmer the sauce covered over low heat for 10 minutes.

9. STEP 9

   

   Add Italian herbs or any other spices and seasonings to taste and stir. Simmer for another 10 minutes.

10. STEP 10

    

    Prepare lasagna sheets. Boil them in boiling water for 2-3 minutes (no more). I dipped 2 sheets into the water, holding the top one on a slotted spoon so that the sheets did not stick together.

11. STEP 11

    

    Place lasagna sheets one at a time on a cotton towel.

12. STEP 12

    

    Prepare bechamel sauce. How to make bechamel sauce? Melt the butter in a saucepan.

13. STEP 13

    

    Add flour, stir quickly. Bring the flour over low heat, stirring, until golden brown.

14. STEP 14

    

    Pour in small portions of milk at room temperature, each time rubbing the mixture well until the lumps of flour disappear.

15. STEP 15

    

    Add a little salt to the sauce, add nutmeg and stir. Bring the sauce to a boil over low heat, simmer for 2 minutes until thickened and remove from heat.

16. STEP 16

    

    Grate the hard cheese on a coarse grater.

17. STEP 17

    

    All that remains is to assemble the lasagna. Grease the bottom of the baking dish with bechamel sauce. Lay out lasagna sheets. I have a square shape 19 by 19 cm, and it took 2 sheets per layer.

18. STEP 18

    

    Spread meat sauce onto lasagne sheets.

19. STEP 19

    

    Then bechamel sauce and grated cheese. Assemble all the lasagna in this order. I ended up with 4 layers of sheets and 3 with filling.

20. STEP 20

    

    Spread the top layer of lasagne sheets with bechamel sauce and sprinkle with grated Parmesan. Bake lasagna in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 35 minutes until golden brown. Serve the meat lasagna hot. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

zaznoba

05.08.2023

4.9

You can cook lasagna in a slow cooker, it’s faster.

Lesya

05.08.2023

4.6

The lasagna turned out to be bomb! We devoured it in one sitting, and I especially liked washing it down with white wine. Well, it probably should have been red, but white suited me better. Thanks to the author for the wonderful recipe!