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Lasagna recipes

Lasagna recipes, learn how to prepare a delicious Italian lasagna. Vegetarian pasta recipes as green lasagna are a choice for those who don't eat meat.

The most known lasagna recipes are those with tomato and besciamella sauce.

Considering that lasagna is only another shape of pasta, it matches with an infinity of seasonings. Other than this main one you can find it “white” (with no tomato), with pesto , artichokes and so on.

Since some years ago, Italian housewives used to have their lasagna recipes for the dough and used to make it at home. Nowadays they buy it and prepare personally the seasoning.

 
   
Italian lasagna Even in the small centers the old women buy industrialized lasagna sheets, as they have less time to dedicate to both making the pasta and seasonings.

If you read the instructions in a lasagne pasta box, you’ll see that most of them say that it needs no boiling before cooking.  It should be the new advantage, as you’re only asked to add your favourite seasoning.

But the old women know the tricks… it will come much better if you put them into the salted boiling water for a minute or less. (add a thread of oil to the water to avoid attaching the sheets one with another). Take them out and put on a dish cloth, separated one from another. Use them as usual. Italian lasagna sheets
What you’ll need (for 4 people):

• 2 recipes of tomato sauce with meat

• ½ liter of besciamella sauce

• 2 Italian mozzarella (total 7.05 once)

• about 3.5 once of grated Grana Padano or Parmigiano Reggiano

How to do it:

First of all, prepare the tomato with meat sauce and the besciamella sauce. Pre-heat your oven to about 200°C. Take a large pan that can be put into the oven and put some tomato sauce for first. Then add some lasagne sheets, taking care of putting them aside, not one over another. Then proceed adding a layer of tomato sauce, one of besciamella sauce, spreading some pieces of mozzarella and grated Grana Padano .

Another layer beginning with lasagne sheets, then the same until you reach a centimeter under the border of the pan, finishing with the cheese.

Italian lasagna Put it into the pre-heated oven and let it cook for about 30/40 minutes, until it looks a little bit crispy on the borders.

Tip 1: when you spread the besciamella don’t be afraid of mixing it too much with tomato sauce. It may become a less red sauce, but no problem, the results will be wonderful.

Tip 2: take it out of the oven and “let it rest” for a while (half an hour is enough). This pause will “tie” the pasta with the seasoning, avoiding it dismantling while being cut. This values to all lasagna recipes.

Italian green lasagna  
Variation:

If you're veggie or prefer not to eat meat, another lasagna recipes you can use is using tomato sauce or pesto sauce to season it instead of tomato and meat sauce, keeping the other ingredients and directions the same.

Buon appetito! Enjoy!

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