No Fail Lasagna
- 500 grams lasagna noodles oven ready
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 small onions diced
- 3 tablespoons flour, all-purpose
- 2 cups milk
- 3/4 cup parmesan, parmigiano-reggiano cheese, grated
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 each egg yolks
- 1 pound lean ground beef patty
- 6 cups spaghetti sauce
- 8 ounces mozzarella cheese
- 8 ounces ricotta cheese or cottage
- Prepare covering sauce using butter, flour and milk.
- Easy microwave method is to first melt butter, add diced onion and microwave on HI for 1 minutes.
- Stir in flour and add milk.
- Microwave at HI until mixture starts to boil and thicken.
- Stir occasionally to prevent lumping.
- Otherwise, use basic white sauce technique and saute onions in fry pan, adding later.
- Add parmesan cheese and salt and stir.
- In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks slightly and add a small amount of the sauce to the eggs.
- Stir and then pour into the sauce, stirring constantly.
- Set aside.
- Brown the ground beef until cooked and drain off the fat.
- Add to sauce (any prepared sauce is fine, slightly spiced works best) and set aside.
- NOTE: Any homemade spaghetti sauce works here, and if it contains ground beef then omit the above addition of meat.
- Slice the mozzarella cheese.
- Grease a 9x13x2 inch deep pan.
- Add a layer of spaghetti sauce on the bottom.
- Add a single layer of noodles.
- Add a layer of mozzerella, and a layer of ricotta (or cottage cheese).
- Repeat layers until all ingredients are used up, retaining enough noodles to top it off.
- Pour (white/cheese) sauce over the lasagna and spread it evenly.
- Sprinkle some parmesan cheese over the top.
- Bake at 325F (160C) for 25 minutes.
- Broil to brown the top.
- Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
- Serve with French bread and garlic butter.
butter, onions, flour, milk, parmesan, salt, egg yolks, ground beef patty, spaghetti sauce, mozzarella cheese, ricotta cheese
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/no-fail-lasagna-40436 (may not work)