Lasagna is a unique dish that is excellentsuitable for feeding a company of friends or a large family. Initially, lasagna is the name of a rectangular pasta used to make a dish of the same name. This is a recipe for traditional Italian cuisine. It consists of lasagna from several layers of pasta and meat stuffing. In various variations, sauces or condiments are added to it, for example, bechamel.
За годы существования этого блюда оно получило spread all over the world. Lasagne is especially loved in the homeland and in Latin countries, in addition, lasagna is popular in the USA. At home, in Italy, lasagna is different in different regions. It is difficult to meet two identical. In each family, lasagna is made according to a special recipe.
How to cook lasagna at home?Do you need a special paste for it or can you prepare it yourself? Can you find all the ingredients for lasagna in Russia? The answer to this and many other questions is slightly lower.
What to cook with lasagna?
Первые упоминания о лазанье можно найти в книгах recipes of Italy, dated about 1200 years. Scientists suggest that originally lasagna meant a special dish, like a saucepan, in which the pasta was cooked.
The truth is that special dishesfor lasagna is not, but if you cook it in a rectangular shape, you can save a lot of time and effort. Why this? Since it is necessary to prepare lasagne using traditional pasta, it is easier to lay it in a rectangular tall pan.
If you use a transparent baking sheet for cooking, then you will not even need to serve the dish, because beautiful layers will be visible through the glass.
American Lasagne Recipe
This recipe can not be called classic, but it is very fond of not only Americans, but also the inhabitants of our country. Many people give this variation to their preference.
It will take:
- 2 cans of tomatoes in their own juice;
- 2 large spoons of tomato paste;
- 1 large onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic (for those who like more sharply, you can increase this amount);
- 0.5 kg of ground beef, it is preferable to use lean meat;
- 0.5 kilograms of Italian sausage (for example, pepperoni), if there is no such sausage, you can use any hot sausage;
- Dried basil and oregano, salt and pepper - to taste;
- olive oil;
- 1 packet of lasagna paste;
- 0.5 kg of Mozzarella cheese;
- 200 grams of Parmesan cheese;
- 0.5 kg of Ricotta cheese;
- 1 chicken egg.
Let's start the recipe, we prepare lasagna at home with minced meat.
- Roughly cut onions, garlic and mix with ground beef in a frying pan. Put on the stove. To fry.
- Add seasonings and salt, add tomato paste. Stir well, continue to fry.
- After the forcemeat and onions are ready, you need to add the tomatoes. Before that, they need to be stretched (you can in your hands).
- Bring the sauce to a boil, reduce heat and cover. Leave to boil for about half an hour.
- Remove the paste from the bag and cook according to the recommendations on the packaging. Usually it takes 1-2 minutes.
- After drain the water and flip the pasta over the colander, rinse with cold water. Set aside.
- Grate parmesan and mozzarella. Leave a little for sprinkling, the rest put in a bowl. Add ricotta, drive the egg. Mix all. You can add a little more seasonings to taste.
- Check the sauce. It is recommended to try, if necessary, adjust to taste. Remove from heat.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Get the form for baking.
Before cooking lasagna, step by step we will consider the laying of layers:
- put the paste on the bottom;
- pour sauce with minced meat;
- cover with a layer of pasta;
- then the layers will alternate in sequence: pasta, cheese, sauce, pasta, cheese, sauce, etc.
The layers are laid until the form is completely filled.
The last layer is laid like this: pasta, sauce, cheese (the one that is put aside for sprinkling).
Put into the oven, bake 45 minutes at 200 degrees.
Before cutting, it is recommended to allow the lasagne to cool for a couple of minutes.
Recipe for "lazy" lasagna
This recipe is prepared much faster and is suitable for busy people as well as possible. In addition, anyone can handle it.
Consider step-by-step how to prepare lasagna at home.
For lasagna, ingredients will be needed:
- lavash Armenian, the thinner, the better;
- minced meat, better beef;
- bow;
- tomatoes;
- milk;
- flour;
- hard cheese.
Recipe:
- Stir in the frying pan for 4 minutes.
- Fry the onions and tomatoes.
- Prepare the sauce: 1 tablespoon of flour to stir in half a glass of milk, add salt and place on fire, bring to the boiling point. Switch off the cooker. The sauce will be thick without lumps.
- Get the form for baking and lay in layers: pita bread, minced meat, pita bread, tomatoes and onion, pita bread, etc. Repeat until the mold is filled.
- Top with a sauce sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- We cook the lasagna in the oven for about 30-40 minutes. The temperature is 200 degrees Celsius.
Recipe for healthy lasagna
Excess weight is a problem for many people. How to deal with excess weight and yet not deny yourself a little joy? Perfectly low-calorie lasagna.
Ingredients:
- 2 small zucchini;
- seasoning - to taste;
- garlic - 2 small denticles;
- olive oil - about 2 tablespoons;
- bulb - 1 piece;
- Hard cheese (for example, Parmesan) - 70 grams;
- tomatoes - 2 large pieces;
- cornmeal - 1-2 teaspoons;
- Basil or parsley - to taste;
- champignons - 60 grams;
- natural yogurt - 130 grams.
Now about how to cook lasagna from zucchini. For the sauce you will need:
- Clean and wash the onions and garlic, finely chop them and fry them in oil.
- Finely chop mushrooms and tomatoes, add to onions and put out. The sauce should boil, and the liquid in it to evaporate.
- Add salt, pepper and basil, a little more put out.
- Squash to wash, clean, cut into thin plates. In this recipe they will replace the paste sheets.
- On the baking sheet lay the courgettes, then sauce and yogurt, sprinkle with cheese, repeat. Sprinkle the last layer of the leftover cheese.
- Bake in a preheated oven for half an hour at 200 degrees.
Recipe of lasagna with sauce
Lasagna with Béchamel sauce is a recipe that has become classics. Many people know how to prepare lasagna with minced meat at home, but not everyone can correctly make lasagna with Béchamel sauce.
For the recipe you need the ingredients:
- paste - 12 pieces (sheets);
- forcemeat - 550 grams;
- cheese of hard varieties - 320 grams;
- carrot - 1 small thing;
- sweet sweet pepper - 3 pieces;
- onion - 1 piece (large);
- meat broth - 120 milliliters;
- tomato - 1 large specimen;
- basil, garlic, salt, parsley, pepper, oregano, thyme, coriander and rosemary - to taste;
- olive oil - about 2-3 tablespoons.
Before you cook lasagna at home, it's worth taking care of the dishes. You need a square high baking tray. The recipe is designed for 6-8 people, so the pan should be large.
For the sauce you need ingredients:
- milk - 760 milliliters;
- butter - 100 grams;
- flour - 100 grams;
- salt, bay leaf, pepper and nutmeg - to taste.
Recipe:
- Peel onion, cut and fry in olive oil until golden brown. Add the grated carrot and fry until softened.
- Cut the pepper and add it to the frying pan, fry for 7 minutes over a small fire.
- Since cooking lasagna with minced meat is enoughlong, then the recipe used ready stuffing. But it would be ideal to cook it from the veal yourself. Stuffing should be put on the pan, make a small fire, pour all the broth and add spices.
- Stew everything until the liquid is gone.
- Tomato grate and add to the stuffing. Stew until the liquid evaporates for 15 minutes.
The Béchamel sauce is prepared as follows:
- In a frying pan, melt the butter and slowly begin to add flour. In this case, the mixture is constantly stirring.
- Add the nutmeg.
- Fry the mixture for about 2 minutes, then pour in the milk, mix whisk until smooth. Add spices and laurel leaf. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat. Cook until thick. The sauce is ready.
Before cooking lasagna with minced meat, you need to properly lay the layers.
Assembly dishes:
- Take a baking sheet. Place a portion of the Beshamel sauce on the bottom.
- Cover with pasta sheets. If necessary, pre-boil pasta. In the recipe used ready.
- Next comes a layer of minced meat and a layer of bechamel, grated cheese.
- We repeat in sequence: pasta, mince, sauce, cheese.
- The last layer: pasta, minced meat and cheese.
- Naryt foil and put in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees for half an hour. The dish is ready.
Before cooking lasagna at home, it is worth deciding which paste to use: purchased or made by yourself. Consider a few pasta recipes.
Lasagna dough: a classic recipe
You can always go to the supermarket and buy ready-made sheets of lasagna, but you can cook yourself a lot more interesting and often tastier.
For the paste will need:
- 600 grams of wheat flour;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 100 milliliters of water;
- salt - to taste.
Recipe:
- Put flour on a clean table and make athe middle is a small indentation. Beat in the egg and slowly add the flour. Add salt water. It remains only to knead the dough. This is done by stretching the dough and then folding it in half.
- After kneading the dough, cover with cling film and leave for half an hour. Then it is rolled out very thinly using a special machine or rolling pin. Cut into sheets. Pasta is ready.
Lasagna dough with olive oil
Данный рецепт практически не отличается от classic. The main feature is the addition of olive oil directly to the dough. If you take the ingredients in the ratio indicated in the previous recipe, you will need to add only 50 milliliters of olive oil. It is better to use the oil of the first spin.
Kneading this dough is easier, but it turns out a little more high-calorie.
Egg Lasagna Dough
The reduction of water and the addition of eggs will affect the complexity of rolling out the dough. It will be more dense and less plastic. But the taste of the egg dough is worth it.
For the recipe you will need:
- 1 kg of wheat flour;
- 10 eggs;
- water;
- salt.
The method of preparation is as follows: pour flour in a slide and slowly drive eggs into it, adding flour.
Lasagna dough with bran
This dough will please those who monitor their health. How to cook bran lasagne?
For cooking you will need:
- 300 grams of flour;
- 100 grams of ground bran;
- 4 eggs;
- water;
- salt - to taste.
The method of preparation is similar to the previous recipe.Mix flour with bran and sift through a sieve. This is done in order to avoid large pieces of bran. Next, add eggs and salted water to the flour. The dough is kneaded and rolled.
How to use a pasta machine?
After the dough is ready, you need tocut a small piece. The rollers of the machine need to push as far as possible and place a layer between them. Roll it between the rollers, after which the distance should be reduced and again rolled dough. This should be repeated until the dough becomes the desired thickness.
Features cooking lasagna
To make the lasagna melt in your mouth and become a favorite family dish, you can resort to a few secrets:
- The main trick is that the layerspastes need to be laid in order: one layer along, the next across. Such an alternation will protect the lasagna from falling apart during the extraction process.
- The secret to ensuring that the lasagna is evenly cooked is in the dishes. It is necessary to use dishes with thin walls.
- Cheese plays an important role. For perfect lasagna, parmesan and mozzarella should be included in the dish.
