Cheesy Lasagna (with Bechamel layer)

Name: Cheesy Lasagna (with Bechamel layer)
Total time: 4500 s
Yield: 6 - 8 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 6 lasagna; 500 gram ground meat; 2 cups Pizza sauce (store bought-Ragu); 2 tbsp Italian mix herb; 1 tsp chilli flakes; 1/2 cup onion; oil; 1 tsp garlic paste; 3 green chillies; salt; Water if needed; 5 tbsp butter; 5 tbsp all-purpose flour; pinch salt; 4 cups cold milk; pinch black pepper; some grated parmesan cheese

Farzana Mir @farzana_made

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sometimes a lot of cheese sounds expensive and you may be staying away from making lasagna as it has a lot of cheese. I have found an easy solution that would cut down the amount of cheese (but still has cheese 😅 ) and make it as delicious! This will surely impress your guests.

Farzana Mir @farzana_made

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Ingredients

1 hour 15 mins

6 - 8 servings

6lasagna
To cook meat layer
500 gramground meat
2 cupsPizza sauce (store bought-Ragu)
2 tbspItalian mix herb
1 tspchilli flakes
1/2 cuponion
oil
1 tspgarlic paste
3green chillies
salt
Water if needed
Bechamel sauce
5 tbspbutter
5 tbspall-purpose flour
pinchsalt
4 cupscold milk
pinchblack pepper
some grated parmesan cheese

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Steps

1 hour 15 mins

1

To make the meat layer, add in onion, garlic in a pan on medium heat and saute for few mins. Later add in meat and green chillies and let it cook. You can add water to help it get soft and cooked. once the meat is cooked, add in pizza sauce or homemade sauce (you can also add tomatoes and then add your own flavourings). Now add Italian herb and chilli flakes, salt and black pepper and let it cook for few more mins until fragrant and meat is cooked.
2

To make the Bechamel sauce: Add butter in a sauce pan let it melt and then gradually one spoon at a time, add flour and mix well. Once they are all mixed, add in black pepper and milk, continously stir so that lumps dont form. Once sauce is ready, keep aside and let it cool.
3

In another pot, boil your lasagna. I do this step at last because otherwise if I keep my lasagna for long they tend to stick even if I wash with cold water.
4

Now lets layer them: first add a little spoon of sauce in your tray or cooking tray (make sure it is oven proof so that you can bake). Then add your lasagna sheets, then the meat layer and then béchamel sauce layer and then some grated parmesan cheese. Then repeat! Add lasagna, meat layer, bechamel sauce layer then bit more cheese at the top so it is cooked and looks cheesy enough :)
5

Now pre heat your oven at 150 degrees and cook for 15 mins. Your delicious lasagna is ready.
6

Tip: if you make it ahead, let it cool and keep in the fridge, when you want to serve, pre heat your oven and bake for 5 - 10 mins, it will taste amazing as freshly cooked the next day. Dont keep it for too long in the fridge though. One day would be best.

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Farzana Mir @farzana_made

on April 23, 2024 11:14

Dhaka, Bangladesh

🍳An amateur cook who cooks with love and time.💕🍳My cooking journey started with baking. As I loved artistic things, I felt baking is the best way to express myself, enjoy and make something wonderful to eat at the same time. After many trial and error and getting confidence I started making some snacks recipes I enjoyed having myself like pasta etc. I would never consider myself a foodie but I loved and enjoyed the process of making a tasty dish for my family and loved even more when it turned out great and everyone praised my effort.👫After my marriage, I started cooking on a regular basis. My husband is a big foodie and I would say he is a very good cook (once he was better than me but not anymore). he loves experimenting with dishes and we together started experimenting with many dishes and I started loving cooking even more. even at 2 am at night, we would think of a dish that we could make with our leftovers and could not stop ourselves from making it.🥘💗🥰I gathered a bit more courage and started inviting families and friends over for lunch and dinner parties. As my sweetest family and friends praised my cooking, I finally started considering myself a good home cook.I would make new dishes write down recipes in my recipe book when they turned out great so I did not forget. Sometimes I wrote recipes in a word file and sent them to my close friends when they had parties and wanted to cook my special dishes. Now that I have Cookpad, I can do these with soo much ease, save my recipes, send them to friends and even get wonderful comments from the wonderful Cookpadders ☺️🥳Life has become much more fun and happy.❤️