Home Lasagne - General Cooking Principles
Is it possible to eat pasta and not get better? "Myth!" - say most women who are watching the figure. But, nevertheless, Italians and Italians stubbornly argue that this is so, the main thing is that there are correct pasta. Italy is famous for pasta, pizza, lasagna and other goodies that are not cooked anywhere so tasty. The nation regards these dishes as basic in the diet, and meanwhile, very few Italians are obese. The thing is how much flour there is. On the Soviet shelves on sale were only vermicelli and pasta, which were made from processed wheat flour. In this product there was nothing useful, only calories.
Italian pasta is made only from durum wheat. Such a product also contains calories, but at the same time this flour product perfectly saturates, satisfying the feeling of hunger and generously giving the body healthy minerals and nutrients.
Lasagna is, figuratively speaking, a puff dish in which the filling and thin plates of wheat dough are combined. The filling can be absolutely any - meat, fish, chicken, mushrooms, vegetables and even fruits.
In the shops you can find imported sheets for lasagna - they are quite expensive, but they are precisely made according to the correct recipe. Recently, domestic manufacturers, due to the demand for the product, began to produce sheets for lasagne, which are two to three times cheaper than imported ones.
Lasagna at home - preparing food and dishes
First of all you need sheets for lasagna. Do I need to cook them somehow? Pay attention to the method of cooking - some sheets need to be boiled before preparing the dish, some should be dipped in boiling water for a minute, or not prepared at all.
The filling for lasagna is prepared separately and simply laid out on sheets before you place the dish in the oven. You can use the following recipes or come up with the stuffing yourself, from the products you have. In fact, lasagna, like pizza, is the result of culinary experiments, and not strict adherence to the recipe.
Homemade lasagna recipes:
Recipe 1: Lasagna at home
Most often, lasagna is cooked with minced meat, and a hearty, nutritious meal is obtained. You can take minced pork or beef, but their mix is best - the dish will be juicy and fragrant.
Ingredients Required:
- Sheets for lasagna - 8 pieces
- Minced pork - 180 grams
- Minced beef - 200 grams
- Tomatoes - 5 pieces
- Cream - 130 ml
- Garlic - 3 teeth
- Onions - 2 heads
- Hard salted cheese - 150 grams
- Butter
Cooking method:
- First prepare the filling. Wash the tomatoes, remove the tails and skip the vegetables through a meat grinder or chop up in a puree blender.
- Finely chop the onion.
- Grease the pan with butter and put the roast mince. While stirring it with a spoon, bring to brown. Add onions, salt. Fry another 7-8 minutes, pour in tomato puree. Squeeze the garlic through the press into the mass. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the meat over a low heat for 10 minutes. In the fifth minute, add the cream.
- Prepare the lasagna sheets as indicated on the package - boil them or dip them in boiling water.
- Grease the baking pan with oil, place the sheets so that they completely cover the bottom. Put the stuffing on them. Top sheets of lasagna, minced again, and so several layers. The last layer should be minced, sprinkle with cheese and cover with foil.
- Place the lasagna in the preheated oven. Bake for 35 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. 5 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the foil from the deck so that the lasagna becomes golden in color.
Recipe 2: Lasagna at home with chicken
Meat lasagna can be prepared in a more lightweight version - if you replace the minced pork or beef chicken.
Ingredients Required:
- Lasagne Sheets - 8 Sheets
- Chicken fillet - 450 grams
- 2 onions
- Cream - 180 grams
- Cheese - 300 grams soft
- Hard cheese - 120 grams
- Fresh parsley
Cooking method:
- Wash chicken fillet and chop into mincemeat blender or meat grinder. Fry in a pan.
- Chop the onion and add to the chicken in ten minutes.
- After another 5 minutes, salt, pour in the cream and squeeze the garlic in the stuffing. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes. When turn off the heat, spoon soft cheese into the chicken, mix.
- Grate hard cheese.
- Prepare sheets if needed. Spread in layers with chicken meat. The last layer should be minced chicken, sprinkle with cheese and cover with foil.
- Send the lasagna to the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 160 degrees. 5 minutes before the readiness, the foil must be removed to make a tasty cheese crust. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Recipe 3: Lasagna at home with mushrooms
Not everyone likes heavy meat dishes, but this is no reason to deny yourself such pleasure as lasagna. You can cook this dish with mushrooms. Mushrooms are very nourishing, and most importantly an incredibly fragrant product. Italian specialty will turn out quite nourishing and nutritious, and at the same time not very high-calorie.
Ingredients Required:
- Dough sheets - 8 pcs.
- Mushrooms - 450 grams
- Onions - 4 pieces
- Sour cream - 240 grams
- Cream - 120 ml
- Salt
- Hard cheese - 130 grams
- Butter
Cooking method:
- Onions need to be peeled and chopped. Posting it to fry in a hot frying pan.
- Wash and finely chop the mushrooms, add them to the onions. Fry the vegetables for 10 minutes, then pour the sour cream, salt, cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
- In a skillet, melt 100 grams of butter, pour in the cream and add the grated cheese.
- Put layers of dough and mushrooms in layers in a deck, cover the top layer with creamy sauce. Cover the foil with lasagna and send to bake in the oven for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.
Recipe 4: Lasagna at home with vegetables
Men for the most part do not like vegetables, considering salads as food for grazing animals and slimming women. But even prepared meat eaters will want the lasagna cooked according to this recipe! The fact is that the main ingredient of such a dish is eggplants, which after heat treatment is easily confused with meat.
Ingredients Required:
- Lasagna dough - 8 sheets
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece
- Zucchini - 1 piece
- Eggplant - 1 piece
- Tomatoes - 3 pieces
- Onion - 1 piece
- Butter - 160 grams
- Flour - 2 tablespoons
- Hard cheese - 170 grams
- Cream - 150 ml
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Vegetables need to be washed, with eggplant and zucchini to remove the skin, then finely cut into cubes.
- Put onion into a red-hot skillet, add pepper, tomatoes, zucchini and eggplants in 5 minutes. Fry vegetables for 7 minutes - they should soften, but not turn into porridge. Salt it.
- Cheese finely rub.
- Melt butter in a saucepan, add flour and cream, stir to make the sauce uniform. When you turn off the heat, add cheese to the saucepan.
- Put the dough and vegetables in layers in the deck, pour the sauce over the top layer, then cover the deck with foil. Bake lasagna for 30 minutes at a temperature of 160 degrees.
Recipe 5: Homemade lasagna with fruit
As we have said, lasagna is a versatile dish that can be prepared with any filling. If you have a plate for lasagna, then this is an excellent reason to indulge yourself with a puff fruit dessert.
Ingredients Required:
- Sheets for lasagna - 8 pieces
- Orange - 1 piece
- Strawberry - 300 grams
- Raspberries - 200 grams
- Low-fat cottage cheese - 350 grams
- Egg - 2 pieces
- Iced sugar - 330 grams
- Cedar or almond nut - 60 grams
- Cream - 130 ml
- Sour cream - 220
- Vanillin
- Butter
Cooking method:
- Wash strawberries and cut. From the orange, remove the peel, remove the film, remove the bones, cut.
- Separate the whites from the yolks.
- Yolks should be mixed with cottage cheese, half powdered sugar and cream blender.
- Separately whip proteins with salt for 5 minutes. The resulting foam, enter with a spoon in the curd cream.
- Spoon the fruit and curd cream.
- Combine sour cream with powdered sugar and vanilla.
- Lay out the dough and cream in a deck. Cover the top layer with sour cream and cover the deck with foil. Place the fruit lasagna in the oven and bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Lasagna at home - secrets and tips from the best chefs
You do not have a test for lasagna? You can safely use thin Armenian lavash instead of sheets of dough. Pre-soak the sheets in a mixture of kefir and one egg for 10 minutes, after which you can use them in a lasagna recipe.
Can I make a dough for lasagna with my own hands? It is quite easy! You will need a pound of flour, five eggs, a piece of butter. Melt butter and mix with eggs and a pinch of salt. In the sifted flour, enter the mixture, knead the elastic dough and let it stand for 20 minutes. Divide the dough into pieces and roll into thin sheets. Let them dry and use for lasagna.
