Hi everyone, it's Rebeckah here; a student midwife at
Kingston University. And today I am going to be making some lasagne.
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In the coming weeks I'm going to be out on placement again, which means
I'm not going to be wanting to come home and doing a lot of
cooking. So one of my favourite things to do is to make lasagne
in these really handy foil containers. Then I can just freeze
them and then the night before I pull it out and voilà!
Instant dinner, easy peasy for when I come back from placement. So
obviously the first thing I got to do is get my pan ready with
a little bit of oil and have a pot ready to go so that I can
boil the lasagne noodles. I'm going to take my defrosted
ground turkey meat and I'm going to plonk it into the frying pan.
While I'm letting my ground meat just cook slowly on the stove. I'm
gonna go ahead and chop up some onions,
some garlic,
some carrots,
some parsley and some spinach. This will add some lovely
vegetables to get those out and add some nice flavour into my
lasagne as well.
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Now that the meat is fully cooked, I'm going to add the
onions and the garlic that I've minced onto the meat so they can
start to cook and I'm also going to start to season the meat and the onions and
such by adding some salt
and pepper,
oregano,
cumin,
basil,
a little bit of thyme,
a little bit of onion seasoning and a little bit of
garlic seasoning as well.
Gonna give this a mix.
Then I'm gonna cover it to let the onions sit.
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Now that the veggies are cut up and the meat is cooked I'm going
to go ahead and add some tomato sauce.
A little bit of water
to get out all of the sauce.
Because I wanna make a lot of bolognese sauce, I'm going to add another one.
I'll add some shiraz.
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Paste, to thicken it up.
Gonna add a little bit of cinnamon, just adds like a little bit of a
sweet taste to the sauce, which I really like. And then of course, to help balance
the acidity of the tomato, I put in a generous amount of brown
sugar.
Add Bouillon or part of one anyway.
Give this a cover and we'll let this simmer.
While the sauce is simmering, I'm going to start adding
the noodles into the water here 'cos it's boiling.
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Final touch: a little bit of cheese.
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And here we go. I'm all ready
for a dinner for tonight and placement for the next few
weeks. Yum!