Homemade Lasagne!
Ingredients:
200 gram box of ready-to-use "besciamella"
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 small onion
300 grams of ground beef or pork
salt to taste
400 grams of tomato sauce
ready-to-use flat pasta for lasagne (fresh or frozen)
Saute onions in olive oil until they are soft, add ground beef or pork. Cook until the meat is done. Add the tomato sauce and simmer over low flame for one hour. Add spices you like!
How to make the besciamella if you cannot find it. You need: 50 gr of margarine or butter (butter is better) 50 gr flour 1/2 liter of cold milk, salt. pepper, and a pinch of nutmeg
Melt the margarine or the butter and add the flour. Then add the milk little by little, keep mixing to avoid lumps. Add salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Cook for 10 minutes always mixing.
Combine the besciamella with the meat sauce. Add it between layers of the lasagne pasta in a baking dish. Add grated parmesan cheese liberally.
Put in a pre-heated oven at 200°C (that is nearly 400 Fahrenheit) for 20 minutes (bake for 10 minutes covered with aluminum foil and 10 minutes uncovered).
Buon Appetito!
Credit for this recipe belongs to M's mother, Nella.
Amber, where can I buy besciamella? The recipe looks great. Just started reading your blog and Casey read the papa poem and said it was about his papa, too. He will e-mail your son, I hope. We will be visiting Torina while we are here so will let you know when that is.
ReplyDeleteHi Jane! I find the besciamella in most supermarket (they seem to store it next to the same items) ...I think it is usually stored next to the non refrigerated cream - panna, and the "latte a lunga coservazione" the long term milk that is not refrigerated. Otherwise, If I can't find it I always ask!
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