Lasagna

Everybody loves lasagna its a big meal and very satisfying for a large group of people coming over. This is how you make it with minced meat mozzarella and bechamel sauce. I also use shredded carrot as a secret ingredient to sneak up vegetables but it gives more flavor.

Ingredients

• box of lasagna noodles

• 400 grams minced meat

• 2 cups of milk

• 25 grams or two table spoons of butter

• 230 ml of cream

• 2 table spoons of cream

• 1 jar of ready made tomato pasta sauce

• 500 g shredded mozzarella cheese

• onion

• 4 cloves of garlic

• 1 shredded carrot (optional)

• 2 spoons of tomato paste

Spices

• Dried oregano

• Salt and pepper

• Paprika and chili powder (optional)

Instructions:

• Start the bechamel sauce by heating the milk and in another sauce pan cook the butter and the flour together by string for few minutes until it is a golden color then add the hot milk and keep stirring (a recommend a wooden spoon) until the bechamel sauce is thick enough you can tell it is thick because of the milk reduction.

• Turn off the heat and add the cream and oregano and salt and paper.

• Now starting with the meat sauce cook the minced meat in a pan with olive oil first then add the chopped onions and garlic and the listed spices.( You can add vegetable stock cubes optional)

• Continue stirring and add at this point the chopped carrots, tomato paste and tomato sauce a long with one cup of water and let it simmer in a medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes and add more water if necessary.

• To prepare the lasagna sheets some require that you boil it first in the box instructions others don't require pre-cooking the lasagna but I do recommend boiling the lasagna noodles at least for 3 minutes just to make sure you get soft noodles before putting the lasagna together

• Make the oven is heated at 180 C °

• Grease the baking pan with butter and put a thin layer of bachamel to prevent the lasagna from sticking.

• Put the first layer of lasagna sheet, then the meat sauce, bechamel sauce and some shredded mozzarella cheese.

• Next add another layer of noodles, then again the meat sauce, bechamel sauce and some mozzarella cheese.

• Do this step again one more time ( lasagna sheets - meat sauce- bechemel sauce - mozzarella cheese) but after that cover the lasagna one more time with noodles then bechamel sauce and cheese. Make sure you leave some mozzarella for later.

• Now cover with aluminum foil and put the lasagna in the oven for 40 to 45 minutes.

• After that remove the aluminum foil and add the cheese that was left aside and cook the lasagna for 10 minutes more uncovered.

• Wait for the lasagna to cool down then serve.