Lasagna recipes
Lasagna recipes: learn how to prepare an easy lasagna. How to make pasta al forno just like Italian women.
The best known Italian lasagna recipes are those with homemade tomato sauce and bechamel sauce.
Considering that lasagna is only another shape of basic pasta; it is suited to infinity of seasonings. Other than the main one, you will find white pasta sauce (with no tomato), with pesto , artichokes and so on.
Many years ago, Italian housewives used to have their own lasagna recipes for the dough and used to make it at home. Nowadays they buy it
and personally prepare only its sauce.
Even in small centers, the old women buy industrialized lasagna sheets, as they have less time to dedicate to both making the pasta and seasoning it.
If you read the instructions on a lasagna pasta box, you'll see that most of them say that it needs no boiling before cooking. It should be a great advantage, as you're only instructed to add your favorite seasoning.
But the old women know the trick... the lasagna will turn out much better if placed into salted boiling water for a minute or less. (Adding some oil to the water will prevent the sheets attaching to one another). Take them out and place on a dish cloth, separated one from another. Use them as usual.
What you'll need (for 4 people):
- a double recipe of tomato sauce with meat
- 16.9oz of bechamel sauce
- 7 ounces of Italian Mozzarella
- about 3.5 ounces of grated Grana Padano
Buy what you need to prepare this recipe:
How to prepare:
First of all, prepare the Italian tomato sauce recipe with meat and the besciamella sauce. Pre-heat your oven to about 200°C. Use a large oven-proof pan and put some of the tomato sauce in it. Then add some lasagna sheets, taking care to place them next to each other, not one over another. Then proceed, adding a layer of tomato sauce, one of besciamella sauce and sprinkling over it some pieces of mozzarella and grated Grana PadanoRepeat these layers, beginning with lasagna sheets, until you reach about a centimeter below the rim of the pan, finishing with the cheese.
Place into the pre-heated oven and allow to bake for about 30/40 minutes, until it becomes crispy on top.
Tip 1: when you spread the besciamella, don't be afraid of mixing it with tomato sauce. It may become a less red sauce, but the result will still be wonderful.
Tip 2: remove from the oven and "let it rest" for a while (half an hour is enough). This standing period will "tie" the pasta with the seasoning, preventing it from separating while being cut. This applies to all lasagna recipes.
Variation:
If you're a vegetarian and prefer not to eat meat, you can use tomato sauce recipe or pesto sauce to season it, instead of tomato and meat sauce, keeping the other ingredients and directions the same.
Buon appetito! Enjoy!
