Lasagne

Ferzaana Sibda
Ferzaana Sibda @cookzanasb

I make this on special occasions. and tonight my eldest is coming home for a week visit.

Lasagne

I make this on special occasions. and tonight my eldest is coming home for a week visit.

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Ingredients

8-10 servings
  1. for the tomato sauce:
  2. 10medium tomatoes
  3. 1 tspwhole cumin
  4. 2 tbspcrushed garlic
  5. 1 tspcrushed green chilli
  6. 1onion chopped
  7. halfgreen pepper chopped
  8. 1 kgchicken fillet cubed small
  9. italian herbs
  10. 2 tspsalt
  11. black pepper
  12. 400 ggrated cheese
  13. 2x 250g lasagne sheets
  14. for the cheese sauce
  15. 125 gbutter
  16. 3/4 cupflour
  17. 1 litremilk
  18. 1/2 tspnutmeg
  19. 1 tspmustard powder
  20. 1/2 tspsalt
  21. white pepper
  22. 1 cupcheese from the 400g that is grated

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Boil tomatoes in a large pot until the skin starts to peel off. you can use canned tomatoes if you are in a hurry

  2. 2

    While the tomatoes are boiling, you can start with the chicken

  3. 3

    Saute the garlic and green chilli with the cumin seeds in the pot until the garlic becomes a a lovely golden brown

  4. 4

    Add green peppers and onions and give a mix.

  5. 5

    Add cubed chicken fillets. salt and black pepper. italian herbs.

  6. 6

    Let the chicken cook with the pot lid a little open.

  7. 7

    Now the tomatoes will be soft. use a potato masher to break the tomatoes into smaller pieces as it cooks down to a thick tomato sauce

  8. 8

    Once the water is cooked out of the chicken, add the tomatoes to the chicken. 2tsp salt. black pepper and Italian herbs

  9. 9

    Let the sauce cook together for another 10 to 15mins. dont let all the water cook out from the sauce

  10. 10

    Prepare your cheese sauce. let the butter melt in a sauce pan.

  11. 11

    Remove from heat. add the flour into the butter and whisk it to a smooth paste

  12. 12

    Add half the milk. whisk while doing this. when you have a smooth consistency return the pot to the stove and add the rest of the milk

  13. 13

    Keep whisking or stirring so that the flour does not stick to the bottom of the pot. the sauce wil thicken as the milk starts to heat up. once you have a lovely smooth thick sauce remove it from the heat

  14. 14

    Add mustard powder. salt. white pepper. nutmeg. 1 cup of cheese from the 400g that you grated

  15. 15

    Whisk again for a minute

  16. 16

    Preheat oven to 230 degrees Celsius grease a baking dish.

  17. 17

    Start with a layer of lasagne to line your dish. add half your chicken and sauce over the sheets

  18. 18

    Another layer of lasagne sheets. cover with half the cheese sauce

  19. 19

    The 3rd layer of lasagne sheets. cover with the remainder of the sauce

  20. 20

    Top with the 4th layer of lasagne sheets. and the balance of the cheese sauce

  21. 21

    Sprinkle the cheese and italian herbs

  22. 22

    Bake in oven for 30 mins. or until the cheese is golden brown

  23. 23

    Switch the oven off and allow the lasagne to rest for 10 mins.

  24. 24

    Enjoy

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Comments (7)

mbali
mbali @cook_9153973
Hi Ferzaana i tried yourrecipe yesterday my family enjoyed it tnx so much

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