To date, there are many recipes for lasagna. Modern housewives in every way improve the classic recipes of lasagna, adding and replacing ingredients. In this article we will tell you how to make lasagna at home.
Recipe for lasagna
Dough for lasagna is the basis of the whole dish. Recipe sheets for lasagna is unusually simple. It is much easier to prepare a lasagne dough with a prescription at home, than to puzzle, where to buy ready-made sheets. The following ingredients are required for the preparation of the dough:
- 500 g of flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 30 ml of olive oil;
- 1/2 cup of water;
- salt.
Before preparing the lasagna dough, the flour must be sifted and poured into a bowl. In the hill of flour should make a deepening, drive in there eggs, pour in water and olive oil, and add 1/2 teaspoon of salt. After this, knead the dough and knead it until it becomes homogeneous and elastic.
Ready dough should be put in a deep bowl, cover with a towel on top and leave in a warm place for half an hour.
After that, the dough should be divided into several parts and roll each of them into a thin layer. Each of these sheets of lasagna dough should be cut into long strips and covered with a paper towel.
Sheets for lasagna can be bought at the store, but cooked at home, the dough always gets better.
Recipe for lasagna sauce
The traditional sauce for lasagna is Béchamel sauce. Ingredients for sauce:
- 2 cups of fresh milk;
- 1 small onion;
- 4 tablespoons butter;
- 1/2 cup of flour;
- salt and pepper.
Onions should be finely chopped, poured into a frying pan, filled with milk and brought to a boil. After this, the mixture must be cooled and filtered.
In the pan, melt the butter, pour in the flour and mix well. When the flour turns golden, the filtered milk should be poured into the pan with a thin trickle, stirring constantly. To sauce should be added salt and pepper, and cook for 20 minutes. After that, the sauce should be cooled.
Recipe for lasagna with minced meat and cheese
The following ingredients are required for meat lasagna:
- 500 g of lasagna sheets;
- 300 g of Bechamel sauce;
- 1 kg of stuffing (you can use pork, beef or chicken);
- 3 large tomatoes;
- 2 pickled cucumbers;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 300 grams of Parmesan cheese;
- green basil and oregano (can be dried);
- olive oil;
- salt and pepper.
Deep frying pan should be warmed, put on it minced and fry it without oil until all the juice has boiled out. After that, you can add a few spoons of olive oil to the stuffing.
Separately, you need to prepare a dressing for minced meat. To do this, tomatoes should be rubbed, cucumbers - finely chopped, greens - chopped, garlic - let through the press. All the ingredients should be mixed and add to them salt and pepper. If possible, refueling should be ground in a blender until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Next, the dressing should be added to the stuffing, mix the whole mixture and fry for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, all the contents of the frying pan should be sprinkled with grated cheese and wait until it melts.
Now you can form lasagna. To do this, the pan should be oiled with olive oil and 2 tablespoons of Béchamel sauce and put several lasagna sheets on it so that one "advances" on the other. On the dough you should lay out the filling for lasagna, pour it with sauce and cover it with a new layer of dough. Thus, it is necessary to form a puff cake - lasagna. The top layer of the "pie" should be from the dough. The lasagna should be sprinkled with grated cheese and sent to the oven for 20 minutes.
Making lasagna at home is a creative process, the results of which will delight all household members.