Easy Lasagne with Meat Sauce and Béchamel. For the bechamel, bring the milk to a simmer in a saucepan. Stir the hot milk into the butter-flour mixture. In this béchamel lasagna, I used my bolognese recipe, but it can also be made meatless, with a traditional tomato sauce.
Lasagna consists of layers of meat sauce, long pasta sheets and a creamy white béchamel. These are layered together in a deep sided baking dish and then cooked in the oven until the pasta is cooked and everything has melted and merged together. Start with bolognese sauce and end with bechamel sauce. You can cook Easy Lasagne with Meat Sauce and Béchamel using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Easy Lasagne with Meat Sauce and Béchamel
- You need 1/2 of Courgette.
- Prepare 1 of Aubergine (slim Japanese type).
- You need 250 grams of ☆ Mixed minced beef and pork.
- You need 1 of ☆ Chopped onion.
- It's 1 of tin ☆ Tinned diced tomato.
- It's 2 tbsp of ☆ Soup stock granules.
- It's 1 of ☆ Bay leaf.
- It's 40 grams of ★ Butter.
- Prepare 50 grams of ★ White flour.
- Prepare 450 grams of ★ Milk.
- You need 2 tbsp of ★ Soup stock granules.
- It's 1 of ★ Salt and pepper.
- You need 1 of ★Bay leaf.
- You need 4 of Lasagne sheets.
- It's 1 of Mushrooms (sliced).
- You need 1 dash of Parsley (dried).
- Prepare 150 grams of Cheese (easy melting type).
- Prepare 1 of Grated cheese (Parmesan cheese).
Spread a thin layer of bolognese sauce in a casserole dish. Then layer with lasagna sheets followed by bolognese sauce and then bechamel sauce. You should layer lasagna sheets in alternating directions. To assemble the lasagna, pour ½ cup of the meat sauce into a lightly greased baking dish.
Easy Lasagne with Meat Sauce and Béchamel instructions
- Make the meat sauce. Fry the mixed minced meat in a pot. Once the meat is cooked through, add the chopped onion and fry until tender..
- Add the tinned tomato and consomme stock granules into Step 1 and mix well. Add the bay leaf and simmer for about 10 minutes. (Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.).
- Make the white sauce. Put the butter and flour in a separate pot and cook over a low to medium heat. Stir constantly. (Use a wooden spatula to do this.).
- Add half of the milk to Step 3. (Stir constantly until smooth.).
- Add the rest of the milk, consomme stock granules and bay leaf. Stir constantly until the sauce thickens..
- Cut the courgette and aubergine into 5 mm widths..
- Grease the oven proof dish with butter and line with boiled lasagne..
- Pile up the dish with the white sauce, the meat sauce, followed by the vegetables, then the white sauce, the cheese, in that order..
- For the second layer, repeat Step 7 and 8. Finish with the meat sauce, followed by the cheese on top..
- Top with panko and grated cheese on Step 9. Bake the lasagne in an oven pre-heated to 190˚C for 20 minutes. Sprinkle parsley on top and serve..
My Easy Lasagne with a Cheat's Bechamel is guaranteed to fly off plates. It's easy to make because I use my Quick and Easy Bolognese Sauce and a bechamel that tastes gorgeous but is ready in just a couple of minutes. If you are gluten free, simply substitute the lasagne sheets for thinly sliced aubergine. Layer three: Lasagna noodles, remaining meat sauce, remaining béchamel. mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese. Don't worry about getting the layers perfect.