Traditional Italian Lasagna
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 21
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion
- 2 ounces carrots
- 4 ounces mushrooms
- 2 ounces pancetta
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 stalk celery
- 1 lb minced beef
- 8 ounces tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon tomato puree
- 1⁄4 pint red wine
- 1⁄4 pint beef stock
- 2 bay leaves
- salt
- peppercorn, freshly ground
- 6 peppercorns
- 12 -15 sheets lasagna noodles
- 2 ounces freshly grated parmesan cheese
-
for bechamel sauce
- 4 ounces butter
- 3 ounces plain flour
- 1 1⁄2 pints milk
directions
- Heat oil in a large pan; add the finely chopped onion, carrot, mushrooms, bacon, crushed garlic and celery (saving a couple of slices of onion, carrot and celery for bechamel sauce). Fry while stirring for 1-2 minutes; add the beef and cook over high heat for further 2 minutes.
- Stir in tomatoes and juices, tomato puree, wine, beef stock, 1 bay leaf, and seasoning. Bring to boil; reduce the heat to a simmer cover and cook for 35 minutes.
- meanwhile put the milk into a pan,add the saved slices of onion,carrot,celery,6 peppercorns and other bayleaf,bring slowly to the boil,then remove from the heat cover and leave to infuse for 15 minutes.
- Make the bechamel sauce.
- Strain infused milk into a jug. Melt butter in a saucepan; add the flour and cook over a low heat stirring with a wooden spoon for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and gradually blend in the milk to prevent lumps. Bring to boil slowly stirring all the time until it thickens; season.
- Brush baking dish with butter. Spoon 1/3 of meat sauce into dish, cover with 4 or so sheets of lasagne, then 1 third of bechamel sauce. Repeat twice more. Sprinkle top with parmesan.
- Bake in a preheated oven 180c for 45 minutes.
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i have always been interested in cooking from an early age especially food of the med.
i worked in Italy renovating a farmhouse for a client and pulled out a couple of woodfired ovens, sadly they were not wanted.when i got home i built one in my garden,all friends and family love the food from it.