Authentic Lasagna Bolognese
Lasagna Bolognese is one of the best-known and most delicious Italian dishes. It takes 15 minutes to assemble with original Bolognese sauce.
Ingredients
- Bechamel sauce made from 1 quart (1 liter) of milk
- Bolognese sauce made from 1 pound (500 g) of meat
- 12 oz lasagna noodles 350 g
- 7 oz Parmesan cheese 200 g
Instructions
- Prepare your Bolognese sauce. This will take 3 hours, so you’d better think ahead. You can make the sauce weeks before making the lasagna; it freezes well.
- Prepare your bechamel sauce and grate the Parmesan cheese.
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (180°C).
- To prepare your lasagna Bolognese, first butter a 13x9-inch baking pan. Then start with a layer of Bolognese sauce.
- Arrange one layer of lasagna noodles to cover the bottom of the baking pan (over your thin Bolognese layer). If necessary, break your noodles into smaller pieces to cover the baking pan evenly. Make sure the pieces don’t overlap, so they can cook through.
- Spread béchamel over the noodles. Make sure it covers them completely. Without doing so, the pasta wouldn’t cook through properly.
- Add Bolognese sauce and sprinkle it with a generous layer of grated Parmesan cheese.
- Continue layering. On top of the cheese comes another layer of pasta, then béchamel, Bolognese sauce, and grated cheese. The top layer of the lasagna Bolognese should be béchamel mixed with Bolognese sauce and sprinkled with double the amount of cheese.
- Bake your lasagna Bolognese for about an hour. It is ready when the edges of the pasta are rippled and the cheese on top is crispy and has a wonderful brownish-red color.
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