Lasagna With White and Red Sauces
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
-
Bechamel Sauce
- 29.58 ml butter
- 29.58 ml all-purpose flour
- 177.44 ml milk
- white pepper
-
Lasagna
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 29.58-44.37 ml vegetable oil
- 453.59 g lean ground beef
- 793.78 g crushed tomatoes (or whole tomatoes, chopped and undrained)
- 118.29 ml celery, thinly sliced
- 118.29 ml carrot, thinly sliced
- 4.92 ml dried basil, crushed
- 453.59 g lasagna noodle, cooked and drained
- 170.09 g bel paese cheese, thinly sliced
- 6 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
- 29.58 ml butter, cut into small pieces
- 236.59 ml parmesan cheese, freshly grated (or Grana Padano Cheese)
directions
- Prepare Bechamel Sauce first: Melt butter in small sauce pan over medium heat. Stir in 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour. Gradually blend in 3/4 cup milk. Season to taste with white pepper. Cook until thick and bubbly, stirring constantly. Set sauce aside.
- Cook and stir onion and garlic in hot oil in Dutch oven over medium-high heat until tender.
- Add ground beef and cook until no longer pink, stirring occasionally.
- Add tomatoes, celery, carrot, and basil.
- Reduce heat to low.
- Cover and simmer 45 minutes.
- Remove cover and simmer 15 minutes more.
- Arrange 1/3 of the lasagna noodles in bottom of buttered 13x9 inch baking dish.
- Add 1/2 cup of the Bel Paese cheese (I used Ricotta instead) and 1/2 of the eggs.
- Spread the Bechamel Sauce.
- Top with layer of noodles.
- Dot with butter.
- Sprinkle with Parmesan and bake in preheated 350 oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until heated through.
- Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
AmyZoe
Nampa, Idaho
I love to try new recipes, and this is a wonderful site to find new additions. I rarely make the same thing twice because it's so much fun to try something different. My life long dream is to travel the world and eat my way around it.