Hello, you lovely people. We're gonna do
my classic family lasagne. You're gonna love it. It's simple.
It's delicious. Crispy baked topping. You know, beautiful
bubbling white sauce. Sweet tomato and meat sauce.
Really comforting. Really good value. Great for family use.
I've written it with my nutrition team, so it's really nutritious. It's got loads of
veggies in.
It's going to be great. Every great lasagne starts with a wonderful ragu base.
You can get the recipe over on the main Food Tube Channel right now.
Hit the box on the screen or follow the link in the description box below.
Once you've got your ragu base sorted, we can crack on with my super easy
white bechamel sauce. So first up,
150 grams of really nice cheddar. 2 tablespoons
of extra virgin olive oil go into a pan. Bay leaves. Just two or three
fresh ones, and then I'm gonna use two lovely leaks. Let me show you how to prep
these leaks, cos some people get a bit
confused by it. Just trim off the sort of corse bits here. We can use that
for soups or broths. Just trim off the outside
layer, and then you've got the lovely fresh
young sort of leak there. Beautiful.
And then what I want to do is run my knife
down the leaks length and put it into quarters.
And then I'm going to go and wash it, because leaks have a tendency of being a little bit
muddy. Can be a real pain if you're eating something lovely and there's a little crunch.
So that's not good. A little tip: if you're washing it down that way you're gonna
push the mud
into the root. We don't want that.
Always wash it from the root down.
And then we get no gritty bits get inbetween all those
outer layers. Give it a good old mix around.
Even do it in a sink of water. Slice up those leaks
about a centimeter. Into the pan there.
Leaks become incredible
when you slow cook them, okay. So,
turn that temperature right down and let these sweat away,
with a splash of water. I'll be back in half an hour.
So these have had about half an hour on a really gentle heat. The flavours totally, it's not oniony in
any way.
It's just sweet and gorgeous. So what we gonna do now is just remove those bay leaves.
They've done their job, and then we're gonna add two really heaped tablespoons of
flour
to the pan. In it goes. Give it a little stir up like this
and then we're gonna go in with about a litre
of milk. And we'll stir that in slowly, slowly.
Bring it to the boil. Let it simmer for about 5-10 minutes
then we'll blitz it up.
So we're here guys. What you can do is leave it chunky if you want like this,
or I've rinsed out the same bowl we used earlier
and we can just give it a good old blitz. Just to make it smooth,
and silky and of course it kinda amplifies
that beautiful sweet leak flavour as well. Just a few seconds
is all you need.
Nice. Add half of that cheese and then half
to be sprinkled on top. So it goes nice and crispy. I also wanna season it
with half a nutneg. Great.
I'm just going to wazz that up one more time. And we are good.
So, it's time to assemble
our lovely little family lasgne. So, we're going to go meat first.
Just under a centimeter thick,
and make it nice and even. Then your white sauce,
sprawl it all around.
Lasagne. Break up these lasagnes here.
Makes it easier to cut later on. So we gonna do four layers
and just keep repeating. Crack up that pasta.
Bit more sauce.
Gorgeous. A nice lava pouring of that wonderful
sweet leak sauce, and last but not least
I'm using a cheddar. This goes into the oven
at a hundred eighty degrees Celsius.
350 degrees fahrenheit for about 45 minutes.
Let's come back when that's perfect and golden and gorgeous.
This is sad for about five minutes.
Nice and crispy around the edges. Golden all over.
Beautiful. This lasagne recipe can make
8 adult portions. Or for kids just cut it up a bit smaller depending on how they are.
Let's go for an adult portion first. See all the layers.
If you've got teenagers in the household there 15 16 17 they'll be eating
exactly the same pretty much as the adults. Let's just do the little ones.
We're going to go for a smaller plate. Okay. And we'll be doing a half portion.
I'm gonna serve this with a lovely green salad. That is my
classic humble family lasagne. My guys
love it. Hope you love it. If you like this video please give us a like, a
little thumbs up. There's a thumbs up button somewhere.
d-d-d hit it. And go subscribe if you're a parent,
or a kid actually. Thank you very much. Bye.