Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, the two cheeses lasagna. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The two cheeses lasagna is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. The two cheeses lasagna is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook the two cheeses lasagna using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make The two cheeses lasagna:
Get 60 grams chedder cheese
Take 1 large carrot chopped into 1cm cubes
Take 1 onion, chopped finely
Get 1 Celery stalk finely chopped
Make ready 500 grams minced beef
Get 1 Glass Italian dry red wine
Take 400 grams Tinned Chopped Tomatoes
Prepare 1 tbsp Tomato puree
Take 1 courgette chopped into 1cm cubes
Prepare 9 Sheets fresh lasagne each about 10x18cm
Take 1 Cold Salted butter cut into 1cm cubes
Make ready 1 salt and pepper
Take 100 grams Salted Butter
Prepare 100 grams plain flour
Prepare 1 liter full fat cold milk
Get 50 grams freshly grated parmesan cheese
Make ready 1/4 Freshly grated nutmeg
Make ready 10 Basil leaves
Make ready 3 tbsp olive oil
Steps to make The two cheeses lasagna:
Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat and cook the onion,carrot and celery for five minutes. Add the minced beef and continue to cook for a further five minutes, stirring continuously, until coloured all over .Season with salt and pepper and continue to cook for five minutes stirring occasionally.
Pour in the wine ,stir well and continue to cook for 5 minutes until the wine has evaporated. Add the chopped tomatoes, the tomato puree, the courgettes and the basil, lower the heat and continue to cook for one hour uncovered until you get a beautiful rich sauce. Stir occasionally. After about 30 minutes taste for seasoning.
Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180C/350f/gas mark 4 and make the bechamel sauce. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in the cold milk ,reduce the heat and cook for 10 minutes whisking constantly. Once thickened stir in half of the parmesan cheese with the nutmeg. Season and set aside to cool slightly.
Spread a quarter of the bechemel sauce in the base of a deep 2.2 litre oven proof dish. Cover with 3 lasagna sheets , cutting them if necessary to fit the dish. Spread with half the meat sauce then top with a third of the remaining bechemel sauce. Cover with 3 sheets of lasagna and with the remaining meat sauce. Spread over half of the remaining bechemel sauce then add a final layer of lasagna sheets and gently spread the rest of the bechemel sauce on top ensuring the lasagna sheets are completely covered.
Sprinkle with the remaining parmesan and scatter over the cubed butter. Grind some black pepper over the whole lasagna
Cook on the lowest shelf of the oven for 30 minutes then place the dish on the middle shelf ,raise the oven temperature to 200C gas mark 6 and continue to cook for a further 15 minutes until golden and crispy all over
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