Lasagne Recipe anyone??

[Honoop]

Right then.... cooking my first meal in months tomorrow night for my cousin and his girlfriend (cos Ive been so dappy of late that I completely forgot his birthday!!! Whoops!) - anyway.... want to make lasagne from scratch.

Good recipe anyone and any pointers??

Cheers ears.....

[kushtibari]

1. decent ragu
Chop up a medium onion and cook gently in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil with a dod o'butter thrown in.
Once thats softened chop up 3 carrots (nice ones, not big woody things) and a couple of sticks of celery and throw them in as well.
Cook all this for another couple of minutes.
Add about 3/4 of a pound of ground beef and add a pinch of salt at the same time (extracts the juices from the meat). Crumble the mince up and get it browned.
Add 8 fl oz of milk now and cook it till it bubbles away.
Grate a bit of nutmeg in and then add about 8 fl oz of white wine (not red).
When the wine has evaporated add a big tin of chopped tomatoes.
Get it only just simmering and every time it starts to dry add a bit of water.
Cook like this for as long as you can - at least two to three hours. I sometimes add mushrooms or peppers to this but add the peppers about an hour before the end - the mushrooms in the last twenty minutes (but chop fairly small)

2. nice white sauce
2oz of butter melted into a pan and add 1 3/4oz of plain flour, mixing thoroughly.
Once done add 3/4 of a pint of hot milk stirring slowly. You need to be stirring this with a whisk all the time - cook until it thickens.

Combine the two.

get a nice deep rectangular bowl and smear with butter and then put a layer of lasagna (some supermarkets do fresh stuff which is easy to fit to size and tastes great) on the buttom - then spread a thin layer of ragu/white sauce - another layer of lasagna and so on. Some folk put a sprinkling of grated parmesan between each layer but I just tend to put one on top.

Bake in an oven at 175 for about half an hour.

To go with it cruch three or four cloves of garlic in a small pan with a BIG dod of butter in it. Cook at a low heat (don't brown the garlic). Cut up some fresh parsley and put that in as well. Get some good crusty bread you can heat in the oven. Put the garlic butter mix in a heated up bowl for the table, rip up the warm crusty bread and then folk can dunk the crusty bread in as much, or as little, garlic as they want.

[Kumagoro]

if you want to do it properly you need to make a decent rue

[MD]

Shame David is away for a few days, the man is the lasagne king (well thats what he keeps telling me) he may hop on and see this, if he does he will no doubt give you the run down....

m@

[tiggerai]

Knorr Lasagne kit for 2 *2

It is soooooo nice (and no-one will know!)

[Honoop]

Well its all done now thanks to kushtibari and a random cook book I happen to have!! It was blimmin lovely and I cooked WAY too much!!

Home made garlic bread was incredibly strong, gonna be stinking the office out tomorrow! My cousin and his g/f were impressed tho.... just got all the washing up to do now tho.

Cheers for all your help guys!

[cm_uk]

hehe fav food

[dinoprime]

i work at a hospital and went to the canteen for lunch this week and had the strangest but great tasting baked bean lasagne. it was regular baked beans mixed with chopped runner beans and diced carrots.

strange but tasted superb went really well with chips lol