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VIDEORECIPE Easy Homemade Lasagne Recipe
A delicious homemade lasagne with rich beef ragu, creamy béchamel and golden cheese topping. A comfort food classic.
The recipe can be found in this article
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Ingredients
Meat Sauce/Ragu
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion peeled and finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- 1 carrot peeled and finely diced
- 3 chestnut (brown) mushrooms finely diced
- 500 g minced beef (ground beef) 12-20% fat
- 3 tablespoon tomato puree
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
- 1 cube beef stock crumbled
- 28 oz canned chopped tomatoes (2 x 400g)
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
Béchamel Sauce
- 4 tablespoon butter salted or unsalted is fine
- 4 tablespoon plain/all-purpose flour
- 3 cups full fat milk (720ml)
- 1 pinch salt and pepper
- 1 Cup grated Cheddar cheese
- 1 pinch of nutmeg optional
- 50 g strong cheddar grated
Also
- 12 letters of dried lasagne the kind you don’t need to pre-cook
- 1 cups mixed grated cheese. I use a combination of regular cheddar, red cheddar and mozzarella
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley
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Directions
We start by frying onion in a pan with a little oil. Add garlic, carrot and finely chopped mushrooms (this bulks out the dish and adds flavour).
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Once softened, add in the minced beef and brown in the pan, then add in tomato puree, oregano, thyme, Worcestershire sauce, a crumbled stock cube, tinned tomatoes, a little brown sugar and a good pinch of salt and pepper.Stir, bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes while you make the béchamel sauce.
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Béchamel Sauce (or white sauce) : Melt butter in a saucepan, then stir in flour to form a paste.
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Slowly stir in milk, and keep stirring (using a hand whisk) over the heat until thickened. Stir in cheese and a pinch of salt and pepper and turn off the heat.
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Assemble the Lasagne. Now take your lasagne dishSpread a little of the meat sauce over the base of the dish. You don't need a lot. It's just to stop the lasagne sheets from sticking to the base of the dish.
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Top with lasagne sheets (try not to overlap, but we don't want big spaces either). Then top with a third of the béchamel, followed by a third of the meat sauce.Repeat twice more - lasagne ->béchamel->meat sauce->lasagne->béchamel->meat sauce
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Then sprinkle on the cheese and place in a preheated oven at 200C/400F for 25 - 30 minutes, until the cheese is golden. *it will take at least 25 minutes until the pasta is cooked in the sauce - so if the top of your lasagne starts looking too brown, place some foil on top.
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