Lasagna, in all its variations, is a beloved dish in Italian cuisine that has gained popularity worldwide due to its unique and delightful flavor. Everyone enjoys it, and it’s prepared in numerous ways, reflecting the customs and traditions of different countries while retaining its essential ingredients and classic layered structure. Typically, lasagna consists of layers of pasta filled with meat or chicken and vegetables. Today, we’ll walk you through a detailed, easy-to-follow recipe.
Ingredients
1 can lasagna.
Béchamel mixture:
- 1 liter low-fat milk.
- 3 tablespoons butter.
- 1/2 cup white flour.
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese.
- A pinch of white pepper.
- A pinch of salt.
Meat filling:
- 500 grams of finely chopped meat.
- 1 large onion, finely chopped.
- 4 large red tomatoes, ground
- 3 green peppers, finely chopped.
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 5- Mushrooms
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano.
- 2 teaspoons of salt.
- A pinch of black pepper.
- tablespoon vegetable oil.
- A glass of water.
Cooking:
For the béchamel sauce:
Melt butter in a pan and mix in white flour, cooking and stirring until the flour turns golden. Slowly add in milk, then season with a pinch of salt and white pepper. Keep stirring until the mixture thickens into a velvety smooth béchamel sauce.
For the meat filling:
In a medium saucepan, heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Add diced onions, garlic, and green peppers, cooking until they become golden. Stir in the minced meat, cooking until the meat is browned and the moisture has evaporated. Once the meat is ready, add crushed tomatoes, oregano, salt, black pepper, and a cup of water. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
Assembling the lasagna:
Take a baking dish and coat the bottom with a layer of béchamel sauce. Arrange lasagna sheets on top, then layer with parmesan cheese and the cooked meat filling. Add another layer of béchamel sauce, followed by more lasagna sheets and meat, repeating until all ingredients are used up.
For the lasagna filling:
Ingredients
- 3 medium chicken breasts
- 1 large onion
- Carrots, chopped or grated
- 1 pack of mushrooms
- 1 large sweet pepper, diced
- 1 cup of mozzarella cheese
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
- 2 large tomatoes, chopped
How :
Bring the onion and then cut it into thin slices, then put it on the fire with a little vegetable oil, and then add the chicken cut into small slices, and then stir the chicken with onions until it changes color, cover the bowl after that until the chicken is slightly cooked with constant stirring from time to time. Place the bell peppers, carrots and mushrooms on the chicken, stirring, until all the ingredients are combined. Add the chopped tomatoes after that, then cover the mixture until the ingredients are fully cooked, and when it approaches maturity, add spices , and some green basil leaves if you have it, it gives a unique taste and aroma to the filling. Simmer until cooked, then add the tomato paste, and leave to cool at kitchen temperature until the rest of the ingredients are prepared.
Preparation of bechamel
Ingredients
two tablespoons of white flour.
Two tablespoons butter.
A pinch of white pepper.
A pinch of salt.
Two chicken stock cubes.
Half a liter of liquid milk.
How to :
Put the butter in a pot and stir until hot, then add flour with constant stirring until it changes color and becomes golden. Add warm milk to the flour gradually so that it does not clump, and if it clumps, beat it with an electric mixer. Return the mixture to the heat, stirring constantly, then add salt, maggi and white pepper, until it becomes very thick. Leave it away from heat, stirring occasionally until the lasagna is ready.
Prepare the lasagna
Ingredients
twelve slices of lasagna chips.
spoon olive oil.
A pinch of salt.
How :
Put an amount of water on the fire until it boils, then add salt and olive oil, then put lasagna slices and avoid putting them on top of each other, after that bring the cooking tray and put a layer of oil or butter and grease it well, then put a layer of lasagna and then a small layer of bechamel, and then a layer of filling and spread it well, and you can put mozzarella cheese with each layer, return the layers again only, so that the last layer is béchamel with medium thickness, then put a layer Cheese on top. Preheat the oven to high heat and then reduce it to the middle, and enter the lasagna tray for twenty minutes until cooked, then brown it to take a golden color. Wait until it cools slightly and then cut to taste.
