Lasagna with Bechamel Sauce
My husband’s favorite pasta dish has got to be lasagna. Whenever we have guests, he makes this special request and I tell him that it gets to be boring. Well, I think lasagna is an all-time favorite for most pinoys.Lasagna involves three steps: The tomato meat sauce, boiling the pasta and the preparation of the bechamel sauce.
Let’s make the Bechamel sauce first:
Ingredients
3/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
2 cans evaporated milk (i can is equivalent to 225 ml or 1 cup)
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Cooking the Bechamel Sauce
1. Melt butter in a pan.
2. Blend in flour until bubbly.
3. Gradually stir in evaporated milk
4. Cook until bubbly and a bit thick. Make sure not to burn the milk by lowering the flame.
5. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg
6. Set aside.
Now the Tomato Meat sauce
Ingredients
1 box lasagna pasta (500 grams)
3/4 kilo ground beef
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup butter
4 cloves garlic, crushed
6 tablespoon white wine (optional)
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/3 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoon basil leaves, shredded
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 cans tomato paste (150 grams each) dissolved in 1 cup water
shredded mozzarella cheese to add in between layers and for topping
To cook the Tomato Meat sauce
1. Heat olive oil and butter.
2. Brown the garlic, add the onions and cook until soft.
3. Put in the ground beef, wine, and spice
4. Allow to cook for a while then pour in the beef broth (1 cup) and tomato paste mixture.
5. Simmer gently until thick. A little flour may be needed to thicken the suace.
6. Set aside.
Prepare the pasta
1. Boil 9 lasagna pasta based on the cooking directions in the box. The directions says “boil for 9 minutes”
2. Plunge in cold water.
3. Dry on Towel. Set aside.
Arrange in the pyrex dish
1. Grease a rectangular dish (around 10 inches x 7inches) with butter.
2. Pour 1/3 of bechamel sauce.
3. Arrange a layer of pasta. Spoon in tomato meat sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
4. Repeat number 3. End with bechamel sauce on the top layer.
5. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
6. Bake 350 F until golden brown.
7. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes to set.
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Beef, Pasta, Recipes with 20,897 views.
Comments: 18
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Now I have to have lasagna for V-Day. Have to! XD
try it and taste it,i feel am in 5 star restaurant.
Im looking for the perfect lasagna to make for my family. hopefully this is the one. Questions, though. There were two “1 tsp salt” entries in the tomato sauce ingredients, and the instructions on making the tomato sauce said something about beef broth that’s not in the ingredients. How much beef broth do I need? And by 2 cans evap milk, do you mean the big can? Thanks! I look forward to fixing this meal for my family this weekend.
what’s the white thing called?(the one after the bechamel sauce is placed in the pryex?)is it cream? thank you very much.
this is great!!! lasagna !!!!!
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Thanks a lot.
i want to make this recipe this weekend. i have a question though. how many teaspoon of salt ba yung dapat add to my tomato paste sauce? and how about the beef broth? thanks!
Sounds yummy! Will try this recipe tomorrow!
Thanks!
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Hi!
Tried this last Sunday and it was awesome. Linked to this page too on my blog!
Thanks!
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I tried making your Bechamel sauce, it was delicious! Thanks so much for sharing
Hi,
I was just wondering, how big is the can for the evaporated milk for the bechamel sauce? And you mentioned about the beef broth, how many cups? It’s not mentioned in the ingredients you listed.
I can’t wait to make this lasagna, I’m pregnant and I’m really craving for something like this =)
Hope you can clarify.
Thanks a lot
1 can is equivalent to 1 cup or 225 ml of evaporated milk
beef broth is around 1 cup
Wow wow wow! I cant wait to try this.
I will be attempting this today, hope it would be as great as it seems. Thanks for the recipe!!
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Lasagna is one of my favorite Italian food. The first picture looks very attractive to me. I’ll go to the mall and buy lasagna now, just don’t have the time to make it.
I’ve been looking for a superb recipe of lasagna with bechamel sauce..and when i spotted this site, i got excited!!! I’m gonna try this for my boyfriend’s birthday on the 22nd..it really looks good and yummy!!! thanks!