Lasagne. Everybody loves it, I'm not sure if everybody knows how to make it,
so i'm gonna show you.
It's affordable, it's simple, it's delicious. Don't panic, i'm going to guide you through each and
every step of the way. Here's the ingredients that you're going to need. Five-hundred grams of minced beef,
cheddar cheese,
six dried lasagne sheets, butter, plain flour, semi-skimmed milk
and some fresh basil. Over here
I've got some of my home made pasta sauce
that I had leftover
out of the freezer. I'm not going to show you how to make it today but if you'd like to see how it's done
click the link and that's will take you straight to the video and you can watch. Now
equipment.
We're going to need
a nice small pan, a medium to large shallow frying pan, a nice oven dish,
baking sheet, wooden spoon
a whisk and a serving spoon. Let's get started.
We're going to put our pan
on quite a high heat
because we want to fry off our mince.
Now we're not putting any oil in this pan
because
mince has got quite a high fat content. All the fat will come out and
it will fry in its own fat. Wash my hands.
We're going to just chop it all up as it's frying.
Because we want this to go nice
and brown and cook it all the way through.
If you've got vegetarians you don't have to use any meat at all. This sauce has got eight
different vegetables in it.
So you could use that on its own it's not a problem.
At the moment
it's cooked
but we want it to get a nice bit of colour. It's looking rather grey.
Could you imagine if we put any oil in there? It would be
swimming in grease.
No one wants to eat that.
We've got it to pretty much where we want it to be. It's cooked all the way through,
going nice and brown.
So we're going to drain this slightly and then I'll show you all the fat left behind.
That's the last of it. Look at all that oil. You
don't want that.
Let's give this a good old mix. We want to leave that to simmer for about
ten minutes or so.
While that's doing,
we're going to make a bechamel sauce. Don't panic. I know it sounds a bit funny
but it's not. It's one of the easiest sauces to make. It's one of the first things I learnt at
college
and now I'm going to teach you. We're going to need our pan on a medium heat. We're going to take
a nob of butter, straight in the pan to melt,
and what we're making here is called a roux.
Now the butter's melted. I'm going to put in two tablespoons of flour.
Mix this in. That's what it needs to look like.
We're going to add probably just over half a pint of milk to this but we're going to do this
gradually
Don't panic. I know you might be looking at this and thinking 'oh no it's gone wrong.'
It hasn't.
This is what it's supposed to be doing. Just trust me, stay with me
and I promise you you'll get it right.
When it's getting a little bit more loose
you want to change your wooden spoon
for a whisk.
It's come together.
and it's like a mayonnaisey kind of texture.
We need to add a little more milk.
Bechamel sauce is the white sauce of the lasagne but you can use it to make macaroni
cheese, you can use it to make cauliflower cheese, so it's a great trick to have up your sleeve.
No lumps.
Just beautiful, beautiful
creamy, white sauce. Take that off the heat.
Season it and we just want a little grating of nutmeg
just to lighten it up. Mix all of that in. And there you go. You've done it.
Bechamel sauce.
Ready for your lasagne.
Our meat looks lovely. I think it's time to start building. If you played with Lego as
a kid or if you're like me and played with Stickle bricks. It's just building.
And we're going to grate some cheddar on top.
And a couple of basil leaves.
If you've got your friends coming round,
or if you're trying to impress a lady or a fella,
it just makes it look
a little bit special. A nice little pinch of pepper on the top.
Then I'm going to put that in the oven
at about one-hundred and eighty degrees, gas mark six, for about thirty to forty minutes.
Here is the finished product. Let's dish up.
Lovely jubbly. Don't you just want to eat that right now.
Looking beautiful.
Smelling wonderful. Lasagne.
What I like to serve with mine
is a nice simple side salad and some homemade garlic bread. I'm not going to show you
how to make that in this video but
if you'd like to see how i do it, click the link and it will take you straight to the video and you can watch how it's done.
Have a go. Try it out and let me know you get on. If you do anything a little bit different, you got
any new tips or techniques that you'd like to share, comments box below. I'm waiting to hear from
you. Good luck.