Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, leaner lasagne. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Leaner Lasagne is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Leaner Lasagne is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have leaner lasagne using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Leaner Lasagne:
- Prepare For the meat sauce:
- Prepare 150-170 g 5% lean beef mince,
- Take 400 g tinned cherry tomatoes,
- Get 1 large carrot, diced finely,
- Get 1 stick celery, chopped finely,
- Take Handful chestnut or closed cap mushrooms, (optional),
- Get 1/2 red bell pepper, diced finely, (optional),
- Get 1 tbsp tomato pureé paste,
- Take 1/2 onion, chopped finely,
- Prepare 2 clove garlic, crushed, or 2 tsp garlic granules,
- Prepare Dash Worcester sauce (optional),
- Make ready 2 tsp Italian dried herbs,
- Get Salt and pepper to season
- Prepare For the white sauce:
- Prepare 250 g fat free quark,
- Prepare 1 tsp garlic granules OR 1 clove crushed,
- Take Grated nutmeg to taste,
- Take 1 tsp dried basil,
- Prepare Salt and pepper to season
- Get Other:
- Make ready Grated parmesan cheese, around 12-15g worth,
- Make ready Dried shaker parmesan cheese, (optional),
- Take 9 lasagne sheets,
- Take Salt and pepper to season
- Prepare 1 tbsp cooking oil
Steps to make Leaner Lasagne:
- Heat a large pan over a medium heat. Add the cooking oil then once warm add in the onions, celery and diced carrot. Cook for a few minutes until they begin to soften a little. Season with salt and pepper and add the garlic, dried herbs plus the beef mince and the red pepper (if using it). Gently brown off the mince. This should take 2-3 mins.
- Add in the tomato paste and stir through. Add a dash of Worcester sauce (optional). Add the tinned tomatoes. Stir again and bring to a simmer. Cook for around 10 minutes with a lid on, stir occasionally, then turn the heat off. Set aside.
- Make the 'white sauce' substitute by adding the quark plus the listed herbs, garlic and spices listed on the ingredients section, seasoning with salt and pepper then stirring well together. Set aside.
- Preheat your oven to 200. Now to prep the lasagne. Take a small high sided oven proof dish and spoon in around 1/3rd of the meat sauce. Next layer over three sheets of pasta. Then layer over just under half the white sauce. Layer over another three sheets of dried pasta.
- Next add the remaining 2/3rds of the meat sauce spreading it evenly and right up to the sides of the dish neatly. Layer over the final three sheets of pasta, followed by a layer of the remaining white sauce. Completely cover the top up to all sides evenly. Sprinkle over the shaker parmesan cheese plus a little grated parmesan. Season with salt and pepper. Cover with a sheet of grease proof paper then some foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes on a middle top shelf.
- For the final 15-20 minutes of baking remove the foil and grease proof paper from the top. Bake until the top is bubbly and golden. Remove from the oven and grate over more parmesan. Serve up and enjoy! :)
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