Lasagna

Lasagna To  Share.

What does it mean?  I have a large lasagna which I wish to give away.  No, I don't.  It is just to emphasise that the cooking is not for us.  I have to cook the dish according to people that I wish to share with.  If I cook for little people, then I cook it with simplicity.  It is tasty, but it does not have a lot of spices.

Today I am cooking a delicious lasagna for the grand kids.  They never have lasagna at our home when they come for visits.  But they have grown up so have their palates.   Mary Rose, Thomas and Henry love pasta and pastry.  I have to cook this Bolognese sauce for the lasagna, but I am omitting the garlic and mushrooms, I will add just a little bit of chopped bacon for extra flavour, using instant lasagna sheets that I got from the shop. I have some tomatoes from the garden, I will add into it, as well as some tomato puree.

To Cook The Bolognese Sauce

fresh tomatoes, aromatic vegetables: carrots and celery

 for Bolognese sauce

chop the aromatic vegetables finely also

one onion and some lean bacon

Pan fry 500 gr minced beef and 255 g pork mince.

in 1/4 cup hot oil until brown, add in

 the chop aromatic vegetables,  cook until soft

chopped  fresh yellow and red tomato

 about two cups

add the chopped tomatoes into the meat mixture,

cover with the lid on, cook for 33 minutes

over low heat,

cover the pot, stir the sauce from time to time,

add 1/2 cup stock or water to the meat sauce,

cook for 55 minutes,

add red wine, mix it well

cover the pot, continue cooking for one hour over

low heat with the lid on

beautiful and delicious Bolognese sauce

about two hours cooking process

It does take a long time to cook the sauce, but there is no other way.  Now, wait until the sauce is cooling down, then the assembling of the lasagna can take place.

Assembling Lasagna

the cheese sauce, basic white sauce add some

cheeses, Parmesan and Tasty

drizzle oil on the bottom of the dish,

add some tomato sauce, spread evenly

place three or more the lasagna sheets, put them

Bolognese sauce on top spread evenly

put some cheese sauce, spread to cover the Bolognese

sauce, get the lasagna sheets to place them on top

lasagna sheets include the white sauce neatly. 

Do these process once more

put some tomato sauce over the last lasagna sheets,

then top it up generously with the white cheese sauce

Spread evenly. 

level spread the white cheese sauce neatly, then

(you could sprinkle some more cheese on top)

bake in preheated oven 175 degrees C for 22 minutes

take it out, then cover with aluminium foil

put it back in the oven, continue baking for 25 minutes

Freshly Baked Lasagna, Delish!

A note:  add some more cheeses on top the white sauce then bake it in the oven.  I omit them because the grandkids may not like it if it's too cheesy.

I have not been cooking lasagna for a long, long time.  The instant lasagna sheets were easy to work with, a little brittle.  When it is cooked, looked so good, hope it will slice well.   Happy eating to you all kids.   

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Susy