Easy Lasagna Recipe with Bechamel Sauce
As a summary, you can see this lasagna recipe may be challenging at first because it has many ingredients and different preparations you will eventually use in the layers. You must prepare the dough, the ground beef, the bechamel sauce, and the cheese.Prepare the dough with flour, eggs, and salt. It is important you let the dough resting for at least 40 minutes. Prepare the ground beef by previously frying onions and carrots, adding your ground beef, and then simmering with tomatoes in milk and nutmeg. Prepare the bechamel sauce by frying flour, adding milk and a few spices, and keep on stirring until it thickens. Then, all you have to do is put the layers on your glass roaster and put it in the oven.If you consider this recipe challenging, you can make it easier. For example, instead of preparing the dough and spreading it, as mentioned, you can actually buy pasta rectangles especially made to bake lasagna. There are also many options out there if you want an easier preparation of the bechamel sauce.To make it easier for you, we are also summarizing the list of ingredients and the recommended equipment you should have at hand.
Equipment
- A frying pan with a lid
- One pot
- Dough rolling board
- Rolling Pin
- Glass roaster
Ingredients
- 2 onions
- 1 carrot
- 500 grams of tomatoes
- 100 grams of butter
- 60 ml of sunflower oil
- 1 kg of ground beef
- 3 tablespoon of salt
- ½ tablespoon of black pepper
- 1050 ml of milk
- ½ tablespoon of nutmeg
- 460 grams of flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 bay leaf
- Cloves
- 300 grams of cheese
Instructions
- Chop onions and carrots
- Pour some boiling water on your tomatoes
- Peel and chop tomatoes
- Fry onions, carrots, and ground beef
- Simmer with milk and add tomatoes
- Prepare your lasagna dough and leave
- Melt butter in a pot, adding flour for your bechamel sauce
- Add the rest of the ingredients and cook your bechamel sauce
- Divide the dough, spread it, and cut it into rectangular pieces
- Grate cheese and prepare a roaster with butter
- Place rectangular lasagna noodles and the first layer on top
- Repeat the layers all over again
- Bake in the oven and serve
Notes
Useful tips:
- Ground beef is a great option to prepare lasagna, but a combination of ground beef and pork tastes even better and will give an edge to your recipe.
- Avoid using skimmed milk. It may ruin the consistency of lasagna for a few calories.
- Try to find a lasagna pan. You will recognize them because they are around 3 inches deep, which will avoid having the top layer bubbling to the sides.
- Pasta should always be covered with sauce. Do not leave the upper layer with pasta dough exposed with no sauce.
- Covering your lasagna with foil can be a great idea for the first couple of minutes in the oven. You can then remove it and keep baking for 15 extra minutes.
- To add more vegetables, be wary of watery vegetables such as squash, mushrooms, and spinach. They can ruin the consistency of lasagna and make it feel soupy with excess liquid.