Lasagne
This delicious homemade lasagne, made with a rich beef sauce between layers of pasta and a creamy parmesan white sauce, perfect for any day of the week.
What goes well alongside this dish?
I love to serve this alongside a simple salad and garlic bread.
Lasagne
Ingredients
- dried pasta sheets
- grated parmesan cheese to sprinkle on top
For the mince
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- ¼ tsp onion granules
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 500 g mince beef
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 1 beef stock, dissolved in 200ml boiling water
- 400 g carton of passata
- 1 tsp worcester sauce
- ½ tbsp oregano
- ½ tbsp mixed herbs
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- salt and pepper
For the sauce
- 50 g lightly salted butter
- 50 g plain flour
- 600 ml semi-skimmed milk
- 50 g parmesan cheese
- ground pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180ºc/Gas 4.
- Heat the oil over a medium heat and add the crushed garlic and onion granules for 30 seconds. Then add the mince and fry until all the pink meat has gone. Drain any fat away.
- Add the flour and mix well. Add the passata, stock, worcester sauce, oregano, mixed herbs and tomato puree and mix well. Season to taste. Turn the heat down to low and simmer for around 10mins.
- Meanwhile make the white sauce. Melt the butter in a saucepan, once melted over a low heat add the flour. Once combined, with a large handheld whisk, gradually stir in the milk, whisking until you have a thickened, smooth sauce. Add the cheese and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Pour half the mince mixture into a square ovenproof dish, then add half the white sauce on top. Layer with dried lasagne sheets, then add the remaining mince on top, layer with lasagne sheets and then top with the remaining white sauce and then top with the parmesan cheese.
- Place in the oven and cook for 35-40mins. Serve immediately with garlic bread and green salad.