🇮🇹 How to Make Lasagne

Craving Lasagne? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Lasagne at home, in about 2 hrs, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 500g beef mince
• 1 onion + 1 carrot + 1 celery stick, diced small
• 2 tbsp tomato paste + 700g passata
• ½ cup milk (sounds weird, works wonders)
• Béchamel: 4 tbsp butter + 4 tbsp flour + 3 cups milk + a pinch of nutmeg
• 250g lasagne sheets (no-boil is fine)
• 100g parmesan, grated

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Soften the veg in olive oil, 8 min. Add the beef and brown it properly — 6 min, let it catch a little. Browned bits = flavour.
2. Add tomato paste, passata, milk and 1 tsp salt. Simmer on low 45 min. Go do something else; the pot is working.
3. Béchamel: melt butter, stir in flour 1 min, add milk bit by bit while whisking. 3 min later you have white silk. Nutmeg in.
4. Layer in a baking dish: thin ragù first, then sheets → ragù → béchamel → parmesan. Repeat 4 times, end with béchamel and lots of cheese.
5. Bake at 180°C for 35–40 min until golden and bubbling at the corners.
6. Now the hardest step: wait 15 minutes before cutting. It rewards you with clean, proud slices instead of soup.