Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Lasagna ~The Easy Way...







Meat Sauce Ingredients..
1 lb mince meat
1 large onion
2 garlic
1 bottle (medium/large size)Prego Spagetti Sauce
1 packet optional.. Bolognaise Powder Mix
1 can whole tomatoes
Mushrooms, Carrots etc...
Olive Oil
White Sauce Cheese Layer...
1 tub 16oz Ricotta Cheese
1 packet Knorr Bechamel Powder
2 eggs
2 cup milk
2 tbsp Parsleys flakes fresh or dry
1~2 cups shredded Mozarella Cheese
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan Cheese
9~12 pieces of lasagna sheets
Meat Sauce Mixed.
  • Heat up the olive oil, add in the garlic, onions and brown them. Add in the mince meat..Cooked until brown...
  • Add in the whole tomatoes into the meat mixed...mashed it a little bit..
  • Pour in the powdered bolognaise mixed
  • Pour in the Prego spagetti sauce..stir all ingredients well..
  • Add about half the bottle of water...
  • Salt..sugar..pepper to taste...
  • Cooked until slightly thick with still some liquid flow if you laddle it..

White Cheese Mixed.

  • Pour 2 cups milk in a saucepan..heat up slowly...add in the Bechamel sauce powder..use a whisk to mix them
  • If you see steam from the mixture..add in the Ricotta cheese..whisk well to mix..
  • Put the 2 eggs and whisked again..
  • Add the parsley...salt and pepper to taste...
  • Cooked until thick but can still drop from a spoon nicely..add milk or water if too thick...you want to spread this easily so it cannot be too thick...

Putting it together..

  • Take either a metal pan or any oven ware....3 to 4 sheets of the lasagna can fit lengthwise.
  • Take a few scoop of the meat sauce and layer it at the bottom of pan...
  • Arrange the lasagna pieces over the meat sauce..put them close but not overlap..press it a bit
  • Put another layer of meat sauce over the lasagna sheets....
  • Now put the white sauce layer almost equal amount to cover the meat sauce...it doesn't have to cover the whole layer....
  • Sprinkle some mozarella cheese and Parmesan cheese...
  • Repeat lasagna -->meat sauce-->white sauce--> cheese 2x
  • Top most layer additional Parmesan and Mozarella..cover the entire surface.
  • Put an aluminum foil over the last cheese layer but not to touch it..
  • Baked in a preheated 375/180 oven..covered for about 45 mins....remove cover and heat another 30mins till the cheese slightly brown...
  • Take it out of oven...let it cool and ready to serve....
  • left overs can be frozen....and reheated later on in a microwave...

I sometimes add sprinkles of dry chillies in the meat sauce to spice it up coz I don't like it sourish...

p/s..Thanks to Dali for the original recipe....who cooked the meat sauce from scratch...and thanks to Aida for variation of the white cheese sauce...