How do you make lasagna?!
Answers: please help me but i want to make fresh tomato sause and fresh white sause thanks:)
let me know when you figure it out, I will be over with plate in hand ;)
actually, I usually go to www.allrecipes.com to find recipes, maybe you will find something there
1. boil lasagna pasta noodles & once cooked, lay flat separate from each other
2. cook/simmer sauce w/plum tomotoes,freshbasil & olive oil
3. place few tbls sauce bttm of bkg pan, add one layer noddle
then, add ricotta cheese & or mozz & or parm and sauce, place noodle layer over that level & repeat 4-5 times. bake 350, 45mins
sauce
Its called Stouffers.
Buy the lasagna noodles and read the back of the box. It will give you all the supplies you need and how to do it.
but it from the frozen stoffers section in Giant.
haha, but hey its good!
=)
go to all recipes dot com they have a lot of
wonderful recipes. Enjoy!
lasagna noodles, sauce, cheese...throw it all together and toss in the oven...about 375 for an hour (cover it with foil)
There is a great recipe below. If you don't like that one, they have dozens of others to choose from. A great site.
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If you have bought the noodles look on the back and the info will be there . Otherwise look on the internet for the type of sauce you would like to make.
For meat sauce, crumble ground beef into large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown until meat loses its pink color. Spoon off and discard fat.
Stir in spices. Cook until soft.
Press tomatoes and juice through sieve into meat mixture; discard seeds.
Press the tomatoes through a
sieve and discard the seeds.
Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Uncover and continue to simmer unitl sauce thickens. Set aside.
Add lasagna noodles to boiling salted water, allowing noodles to soften and fit in the pot. Cook until al dente.
Add the lasagna noodles to boiling
water and cook until al dente.
Drain noodles and rinse with cold water. Drain a second time and stack individually over pot rim to prevent sticking. Set aside.
Grease 12 X 8-inch baking dish with butter. Spread noodles in a single layer on clean kitchen (not paper) towel. Pat noodles dry.
Grease the baking dish with
butter to avoid sticking.
Arrange three lasagna noodles in single layer, overlapping slightly, in bottom of baking dish.
Spread half of meat sauce evenly over noodles. Spread half of cheese over meat sauce in an even layer.
Begin to layer the meat,
cheese, and noodles.
Repeat layers once.
Arrange three lasagna noodles on top. Sprinkle grated cheese evenly on top of lasagna to completely cover lasagna noodles.
Sprinkle grated cheese evenly
on top of the lasagna.
Bake in preheated oven as directed. Let stand before serving.
Bolognese Lasagna
Yield: 6
This lasagna is the perfect balance of cream, cheese and meat. You'll need a pasta machine to make the pasta. It's a fairly involved recipe but the end result makes it all worthwhile. I think you'll agree. Yield is 6 to 8 servings.
Ingredients:
Pasta
* 1 3/4 cups flour
* pinch salt
* 3 eggs
Bolognese Sauce
* 3 tbsp olive oil
* 2 onions, finely chopped
* 1 1/2 lb. lean ground beef
* 1 small Italian spicy sausage, casing removed
* 2 cloves garlic, chopped
* 2 small carrots, finely diced
* Several sprigs fresh thyme
* 2 bay leaves
* 2 tsp dried oregano
* 1 x 28 oz can plum tomatoes with juice, chopped
* coarse salt and freshly cracked black pepper
* 1 bunch fresh basil, washed, stemmed, and chopped
Bechamel Sauce
* 1/3 cup butter
* 1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp. flour
* 4 cups milk
* pinch freshly grated nutmeg
* coarse salt and freshly cracked black pepper
* 2 tbsp Pecorino Romano cheese
* 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese
Assembly
* oil, for baking dish
* 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan
* coarse salt and freshly cracked black pepper
Directions:
Pasta
1. In a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment add flour and salt to the mixing bowl.
2. With mixer on low speed, add 1 egg at a time until incorporated.
3. Continue to mix for 3 to 4 minutes until the dough starts to come together.
4. Remove dough from mixer and knead to form a ball.
5. Cover and let rest for 1 hour
6. Roll out pasta.
7. Cut dough into 12 pieces.
8. Roll dough into thick sheets on the pasta machine, starting at the thickest setting, reducing pasta setting one mark each time you roll the dough through.
9. Cook pasta in boiling salted water for about 4 minutes or until just al dente.
10. Transfer to bowl with cold water to prevent sticking.
11. Drain on towel.
Bolognese Sauce
1. In a large skillet, heat the olive oil on medium.
2. Add the onion and saute 3 to 4 minutes or until soft.
3. Add the beef and Italian sausage and cook for 5 to 7 minutes or until browned.
4. Add the garlic and carrots and saute for 3 minutes just to soften.
5. Add the thyme sprigs, bay leaves, oregano, tomatoes and salt and pepper and bring to boil.
6. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for 55 to 60 minutes or until sauce is thickened and flavour has developed to your liking.
7. Add the fresh basil and adjust seasoning.
Bechamel Sauce
1. In a medium saucepan on medium heat, melt butter.
2. Add the flour and stir with wooden spoon until a paste forms.
3. Remove from heat and add the cold milk a little at a time while stirring well between each addition.
4. Return to heat once all the milk is added and mixture is smooth.
5. Continue stirring over medium heat until sauce comes to a boil and thickens, about 5 minutes.
6. Add a pinch of nutmeg and season with salt and pepper to taste.
7. Add the Pecorino and Parmesan cheese and stir.
Assembly
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Oil the bottom of a 13- by 9- by 2-inch baking dish.
3. Reserve a quarter of the bechamel sauce for the top layer.
4. Layer lasagna as desired starting with pasta and alternating bolognese sauce, grated cheese and bechamel.
5. Season well between each layer.
6. Finish with a layer pasta, the reserved bechamel sauce and extra cheese on the top layer to finish (you should have 6 layers of lasagna).
7. Bake lasagna in middle of oven
noodles precooked for 20 minutes
one can of Muir Glenn crushed toatoes (no other brand will work)
extra firm tofu (tastes the same as riccotta in lasagna)
a pound of mozzarella (not skim)
put all that in layers
fresh basil (optional), a pound of ground beef (optional)
bake for an hour or so at 350F
I brown the meat, usually a mix of bob evans italian sausage and ground beef, up and then add the sauce to it. I just keep it simple and use ragu sauce. Ragu works great for this.
I then put a scoop of the sauce on the bottom of the pan, and then a layer of uncooked lasagna noodles. Then I put some more meat sauce over the noodles, then mozzarella cheese, ricotta cheese, spinach and mushrooms, I continue for a couple more layers of that. Then I top it off with provolone cheese and some parmesan regiano.
Oh I love that stuff ....
cook hamburger meat, drain grease, add spaghetti sauce to it. cook lasagna noodles. i mix an egg with a tub of ricotta or cottage cheese. it helps the lasagna stay thick and not run all over your plate.layer noodles then meat sauce then ricotta chees mixture then mozzarella cheese. do this a couple of times then top with remaining cheese and bake.
In all honesty it is the one thing I will no longer make from scratch. It is time consuming, expensive, messy and never turns out as good as a store brought frozen one. I haven't made it in 20 years and my spouse is Italian. I do however buy frozen at least once a month from my local Italian grocery.
I use a jar sauce and add more spices, and I fry up ground meat, with fresh onions and garlic add a few jars of prego or any sauce. I always add red wine and a few tbls of pesto. it gives the sauce a wonderful flavor. I let that simmer for a few hours. cook the lasagna noodles. I don't cook them for the suggested time, they tend to fall apart. put a little sauce in the bottom of your pan add noodles, ricota( you can buy this at any grocery store) and I use hivarti cheese, its not stringy and adds a great flavor, so you put the noodles in the pan add the ricotta and slices of cheese, cover it with sauce and repeat until the pan is full, and left over sauce pour on top, happy cooking, I'm known where I live for my lasagna, have been for years,
buy a kit they are quite good
There are several good cooking sites on the net and there are lots of different ways to make lasagna. Personally I use http://www.epicurious.com/ try that site and a search for whatever you want to make.
It will take a while if you use fresh tomatoes, because it will need to simmer several hours for the spices and tomatoes to "cook in" and you will need to season to taste:
Blend fresh tomatoes in a blender or food processor ( how many depends on how many people you will be feeding-usually figure two large tomatoes per person). Pour in large pot on the stove-on medium to low. Add diced onion, basil leaves, oregano, garlic (fresh is better), and olive oil. The amounts depend on your taste and how much you make. But a good start is to add one clove of garlic initially, and 2 tablespoons of basil and oregano. You can always add more as needed. Cook until slow boil and then simmer several hours.
For fresh white sauce...I cheat, the bottles of white sauce I buy are great- just look for a "major brand"!!!
Then you cook your wide noodles, drain and layer noodles, cheese (mozzarella & ricotta) and sauce. Several times-top with cheese. For meat, just cook and add to sauce.
Traditional Meat Sauce Lasagna uses only red sauce. The white part of traditional lasagna is actually ricotta cheese. The best recipes I've used are below on the links. I didn't want to take up too much room in this answer. I hope you enjoy them.
I think you'll find that most homemade sauce ends up tasting a lot like the sauce you can buy in the store. I used to use Five Brothers sauce, but they sold out to another company (Classico) and they didn't carry my favorite sauce that had grilled summer veggies in it. Now I use Hunt's Roasted Garlic and Onion in a can, when I can find it, or Hunt's Traditional Saucein a can found in the section with the jar spaghetti sauces.
If you don't want to cook, Stauffers frozen Lasagna is good too. I make mine really simple.
1 lbs browned ground chuck
1 box lasagna noodles
1 large can of prego (any flavor) spaghetti sauce
2 large bags of mozerella cheese
1 large container small curd cottage cheese
parmashan cheese
Brown ground chuck-drain and add to prego. At the same time, boil the lasagna noodles-drain. The no-boil noodles work good to. On bottom of casarole dish add a small layer of the meat/prego sauce, layer of noodles, another layer of sauce, light layer of cottage cheese, layer of mozarella cheese, lightly sprinkle with parmashan cheese. Continue with layer of noodles, sauce, cheeses and so on until ingredients are gone.
Bake in 350 degree oven for 1/2 hour or until top layer of cheese is melted. If you use the no-boil noodles, then follow the directions on the back of the box for how long those/lasagna need to bake.
Layers.. first cover pan with Olive oil so it doesn't stick(Can use pam olive oil flavor) then Pasta then sauce then mushrooms then sausage(cooked or uncooked) another layer, then two layers of pasta thn cheees layer back to liquid layer and then pasta should be five layers cover with cheese(mozzerela) bake in pre-heated oven say 400 degrees for 20 min. turn in over around cook another 15 minutes cool down then add a another frea=sh cheese like parmasen for flavor
put tomatoe sauce and white sauce on side for people to put on it the want it, have ceasar sallad too, and hard rolls to go with,,
theres a really good alternative for hamburger. use kiabasi(how ever its spelled). it takes less time and it tastes a lot better. theres not so much layering. cook the noodles, while theyre cooking cut the kiabasi in 2in pieces. make a slit in the kiabasi(long ways), and put a piece of mozzerella cheese in the slit. when the noodles are done cooking, wrap the noodle around the kiabasi and cheese. place up right in a baking dish. pour sause over noodles and add left over cheese. bake at 350 for about 20-30 mins. until cheese is melted and everythings hot. try it out and let me know what you think.
World's Best Lasagna
INGREDIENTS
* 1 pound sweet Italian sausage
* 3/4 pound lean ground beef
* 1/2 cup minced onion
* 2 cloves garlic, crushed
* 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
* 2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
* 2 (6.5 ounce) cans canned tomato sauce
* 1/2 cup water
* 2 tablespoons white sugar
* 1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil leaves
* 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
* 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
* 1 tablespoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
* 12 lasagna noodles
* 16 ounces ricotta cheese
* 1 egg
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3/4 pound mozzarella cheese, sliced
* 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
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DIRECTIONS
1. In a Dutch oven, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, and water. Season with sugar, basil, fennel seeds, Italian seasoning, 1 tablespoon salt, pepper, and 2 tablespoons parsley. Simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.
2. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook lasagna noodles in boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes. Drain noodles, and rinse with cold water. In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese with egg, remaining parsley, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
4. To assemble, spread 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Arrange 6 noodles lengthwise over meat sauce. Spread with one half of the ricotta cheese mixture. Top with a third of mozzarella cheese slices. Spoon 1 1/2 cups meat sauce over mozzarella, and sprinkle with 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Repeat layers, and top with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. Cover with foil: to prevent sticking, either spray foil with cooking spray, or make sure the foil does not touch the cheese.
5. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil, and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before serving.
Wine Tip
Try with an Italian red like Barbera or Chianti Classico.