Hi, I'm chef tony matassa.
Today we're making a family favorite, but with a little bit of a twist.
Were making lasagna, but we're going to do grilled vegetables and we'll be subbing out
the ground beef for grilled ribeye steak.
Let's get started by seasoning up our ingredients.
For the grilled vegetables, I have some portobello mushrooms, one orange bell pepper, one red
bell pepper, and two zucchini cut into planks.
To prep these for the grill, I have them coated in some olive oil and we'll season them up
with some black pepper and coarse salt.
The other vegetables we will be prepping some eggplant, some carrots and a red onion.
Now, this lasagna will work just fine if you want to keep it vegetarian, but what can I
say..
I really love steak!
So I'll just coat both sides of a ribeye with some olive oil and season with black pepper
and coarse salt to taste.
Now you can get your grill setup for direct high heat grilling.
Today I'm using the Bison Charcoal lighter, which is pretty awesome because it runs on
butane and also has a built in fan for getting the coals started.
We're ready to get some fire grilled flavor on our steak and vegetables!
After about a minute, go ahead and crosshatch the steak.
Turn the vegetables once they have a good bit of color on them.. grilling them before
putting them in the lasagna is going to really bring out some great flavors.
I'll go ahead and flip the steak, it has a great looking sear on it!
It will be hard not to eat these ingredients straight off the grill, but rest assured the
lasagna will be worth the wait!
Once the vegetables and steak have some great color on them, you can remove them to a pan,
and grill up any remaining vegetables that didn't fit in the first batch.
When you have finished grilling everything, get your oven preheated to about 350 degrees
while you assemble the lasagna.
For the grilled vegetables, I like to cut them into thin slices longways so that they
layer well and are still large enough to allow you to enjoy all of the different and delicious
flavors.
When slicing a ribeye, I like to separate this outer edge of meat so I can make thin
slices out of it and also make thin slices out of the center section.
Shave thin slices of steak across the grain, and toss it in a large pan with all of your
sliced vegetables.
To make the sauce for your lasagna, use 2 cups of your favorite alfredo sauce, and 7
cups of your favorite marinara sauce.
If you want to make my homemade sauces, which are what I am using today I will have them
attached to the lasagna recipe and that link is in the description.
To the alfredo, whisk in some corn starch,
then combine the marinara sauce to the alfredo and you're ready to assemble your lasagna.
Add some fresh grated parmesan and diced mozzarella to the vegetable mixture.
toss in a couple spoonfuls of sauce, and mix everything together well.
Butter your lasagna pan well, you will be glad you did later!
Now just coat the bottom of your pan with a thin layer of sauce, you can kind of level
it out by moving the pan from side to side.
Next, add a layer of lasagna noodles.
Today I am using no boil lasagna noodles, I like reducing a step whenever possible.
Don't worry if the noodles don't fit perfectly in the pan, just snap them in half if need
be.
Spread a layer of sauce on top of the noodles, then follow that with a layer of the vegetable
mixture.
Once you have the vegetable mixture evenly spread out, top with some grated parmesean,
and some diced mozzerella, because why not.. cheese is awesome!
Finish the layering with some sauce, and repeat that order until you reach the top of your
casserole dish.
Once you reach the last layer, top with some sauce and speckle with some mozzarella and
parmesan.
Cover the lasagna with foil and place it in an oven set at 350F.
allow it to cook for about 20 minutes, ....then you can remove the foil for the last ten minutes
to brown the top.
Once all the cheese looks good and melted, and the sauce is bubbling, you can remove
the lasagna and allow it to set up for 10 to 15 minutes before serving.
I like to garnish with some fresh basil, .....and it's time to give it a try!
How do you improve upon a favorite like lasagna?
Well, you start out by grilling all of the ingredients.. and you swap out the ground
beef with a little ribeye steak.. boom!
That is how you do it, thank you for watching today.. for more recipe videos, product and
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