Lasagna

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 250 g ground beef or 250 g mutton
• 1/2 beef stock cube or 1/2 vegetable bouillon cube
• 200 g tomato paste
• 1 medium onion, sliced thin
• 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
• 100 g unsalted butter
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 liter milk
• 100 g all-purpose flour
• salt
• lasagna noodle (as per requirement)

Recipe

• 1 meat sauce.
• 2 heat olive oil in a pan.
• 3 saute onion till golden brown.
• 4 add the ground beef / mutton.
• 5 add the beef/mutton stock cube.
• 6 keep frying till the meat becomes brown.
• 7 add the tomato paste.
• 8 add water so that it does not become too thick.
• 9 keep cooking for 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
• 10 once its done check if the meat is in chunks. if too big put it in a grinder for 1/2 a minute.
• 11 white sauce.
• 12 melt the butter taking care not to burn.
• 13 add the flour and mix well .
• 14 add the milk slowly stirring not to make lumps.
• 15 add the cinnamon power and salt.
• 16 keep stirring so that no lumps are formed and till it becomes into a thick gravy ( nor too runny and nor too thick).
• 17 in a baking dish put 2 tbsp of meat sauce and white sauce eat.
• 18 spread it well so it lines the baking dish. this is so that the lasagna sheet does not burn.
• 19 line the baking dish with the lasagna sheet.
• 20 put meat sauce and spread it well than follow with white sauce.
• 21 repeat the above step.
• 22 again line with lasagna sheet and finish with the white sauce on top.
• 23 make sure that you put enough meat sauce and white sauce on the sides of the baking dish which ensures the noodles will not come out dry.
• 24 i do not cook my lasagna noodles beforehand as it cooks well in sauce itself.
• 25 bake in a gas oven for 30 minutes and if electric than time it accordingly.