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EASY CHEESY LASAGNA

Think Garfield and the first thing that comes to mind is the lasagna! Yes, the ever-so-Monday-hating-fat-cat loved lasagna more than anything. Like the cat, most of us also have a thing for this Italian favorite. Though it looks like an ordinary broiled mass of cheese, pasta, meat and tomato sauce, it’s a classic that no one can ever resist.
BEEF LASAGNA:

Here’s a classic Italian lasagna dish presented with detailed ingredients and the right methods. If you wish, you can always add vegetables or a meat of choice. It’s a perfect dinner party food, so go ahead and entice your guests.

Ingredients for 8 portions:

- Lasagna pasta 500 gr
- Parmigiano reggiano 200 gr
- Mozzarella cheese 300 gr
- Bechamel 1 Kg (Butter 100 gr, flour 100 gr, milk 1 liter,salt)
- Beef stock 250 ml
- Butter 50 gr
- Minced beef 500 gr
- Carrot 1
- Onion 1
- Milk 1 glass
- Extra virgin olive oil 4 spoon
- Pepper
- Tomato sauce 250 ml
- Salt
- Celery

Preparation:

Prepare beef stock and keep it aside. Chop onion, carrot, celery and fry slightly in a pan with oil and butter. Add tomato sauce, some of the beef stock, salt and pepper, and minced beef and let it cook for 2 hours at least. Slowly add the remaining beef stock and the milk at the end. In the meanwhile, prepare the Bechamel sauce; let the butter melt in a pan, add flour slowly, cook for few minutes mixing continuously. Remove from fire and add hot milk. Bring your pan back to the stove, add salt, then cover and allow the sauce to cook for 15 minutes under low fire. When your minced beef in tomato sauce is ready, preheat the oven at 160° and start to “assemble” your lasagna. Butter the bottom of your baking tin, lay the minced beef and chopped Mozzarella and cover with one layer of lasagna pasta, one layer of Bechamel sauce, add Parmesan cheese on top. Cover everything with another lasagna pasta. Proceed in the same way until the last layer. The last layer should be covered with Bechamel sauce and Parmesan cheese. Bake in the oven for 50 minutes.

Level: Medium
Preparation time: 20 minutes

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