Lasagna is considered to be the most popular Italian dish. Although there are numerous recipes of it available nowadays, all of them follow almost identical steps in cooking. Here is the easiest explanation of how to make this outstanding dish.
In order to make lasagna, the first thing you need to do is to preheat your oven to 200ºC (or 400ºF). Make sure that the bowl is large enough to contain all layers, and put the sheets of pasta there. Next, pour some warm water until all noodles are submerged and leave them like this for 5-10 minutes.
Secondly, start making the béchamel sauce: you need to heat the milk until it is very warm, but not boiling. While the milk is getting warm, add the butter in a saucepan, place the latter over a medium heat and wait until the butter is melted. Then pour the flour into the saucepan, mix it with the butter. As soon as it starts to get brownish, pour the milk and stir it all until the mixture begins to thicken – you can use a whisk for this purpose. When the sauce becomes thick, season it with salt, pepper and a bit of nutmeg according to your taste.
The next step is drying the lasagna sheets: take them out of the water, put on a tea towel and dry them from both sides with the help of it.
Lastly, take your baking dish and start layering lasagna: place lasagna sheets on the bottom. Then put the stuffing you like the most: it can be either fried minced beef or pork with some tomatoes, mushrooms or onions – this depends on what you like the most. After you are done with the stuffing, spoon over the sauce and sprinkle it all with parmesan cheese. Again cover this layer with lasagna sheets and sprinkle with parmesan cheese again. Bake lasagna in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes and let it stand for 10 minutes before serving.
Works Cited
Editors of Easy Home Cooking Magazine. “How to Make Lasagna”. Recipes.howstuffworks. n.d., 26 November 2012. <http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/tools-and-techniques/how-to-make-lasagna.htm>.
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