Italian Mamma's Lasagna
- 1/2 Finely chopped onions
- 1 Vegetable oil
- 400 grams Ground beef
- 200 ml Tomato puree
- 1 cube Soup stock cubes
- 1 Red wine
- 50 grams Butter
- 80 grams Flour (cake flour)
- 550 ml Milk
- 1/3 tsp Salt (for the Bechamel sauce)
- 1 Nutmeg powder (for the Bechamel sauce)
- 1 pack Raw lasagna noodles (made from eggs)
- 1 Salt (for boiling the pasta)
- 1 packages Cheese for melting (slice type)
- 1 Grated cheese
- Prepare to make the ragu sauce.
- Chop the onion and saute with oil in a pot.
- Then, add the ground beef and cook until well done.
- Continue cooking until most of the liquid has evaporated.
- Add red wine to taste.
- If the surface looks dry while simmering, add a little water.
- Add the tomato puree and simmer for about an hour and a half.
- Last, dissolve the soup stock cube in the sauce and continue simmering until evenly blended.
- Then, let the sauce sit overnight.
- Don't let the ragu sauce get watery.
- (If you do, the lasagna will become sticky.)
- On the second day, boil some water to parboil the lasagna.
- Put the salt in the water at about the same time you boil the pasta.
- Like in the picture, when the water begins to boil, use the oven pan to parboil the pasta.
- Don't put the pasta in the pot, put it in the oven pan and pour the boiling water on top.
- Let sit for 3-4 minutes, then drain well.
- Begin heating the oven to 200F Celsius.
- While the pasta is being prepared, make the Bechamel sauce.
- It's like white sauce.
- In a separate pot, melt some butter.
- Be careful not to let it burn.
- Add all the flour.
- Mix well at low heat, adjusting the temperature as needed.
- Switch to using a whisk, add the milk, and mix well.
- Keep stirring so that lumps do not form.
- This is an important step!
- Continue stirring over low heat.
- It will gradually thicken.
- Keep stirring until the sauce has thoroughly thickened.
- Be careful not to let it burn.
- Last, add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and the nutmeg to season.
- Please adjust the amount of salt to taste.
- Let's put together the lasagna.
- Put a small amount of the ragu sauce in the bottom of the pan.
- Put some butter (not listed in the ingredients) as well.
- Use a spoon to spread it out.
- Then, add a layer of lasagna noodles without leaving any gaps.
- It should look like this.
- Next, add a layer of Bechamel sauce.
- Don't make it too thick.
- Spread this out evenly with a knife, also without leaving any gaps.
- Then, add a layer of ragu sauce.
- Use a knife to spread it out.
- Now, use your hands to tear the sliced cheese into pieces and add them in a layer on top of the sauce.
- One level of cheese should use about 1/2~2 slices of cheese.
- Please adjust according to your taste.
- Next, sprinkle on some powdered cheese.
- This completes the first level.
- Next, make another level of lasagna using the same pattern.
- It will rise when baking, so leave some empty space in the top part of the pan as in the picture.
- Put Bechamel sauce, ragu sauce, sliced cheese, and powdered cheese on the very top layer to finish.
- Bake in an oven at 200F Celsius for 15-20 minutes to finish.
- If you have a small oven, the top layer may burn.
- In this case, cover it with aluminum foil.
onions, vegetable oil, ground beef, tomato puree, cubes, red wine, butter, flour, milk, salt, nutmeg, pack, salt, cheese
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/158886-italian-mammas-lasagna (may not work)