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Lasagna with Bolognese sauce and Béchamel

02 fév

In the last recipes, we learned how to make Bolognese sauce and Béchamel sauce. Now we are going to use both recipes to make some yummy lasagna. Don’t worry, if you have already made the Bolognese sauce and the béchamel, you did the hardest! Now you just have to put them together with lasagna pasta!

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Very Easy
Ingredients (for 2 person):
- Bolognese sauce
- Béchamel sauce
- Around 10 slices of lasagna pasta
- Grated cheese (Emmental, gruyère or cheddar)

In a pie plate, pour half of the Bolognese sauce. Then cover the sauce with slices of lasagna pasta.
Add on top of the pasta half of the béchamel sauce. Then cover again with slices of lasagna pasta.
Pour the rest of the Bolognese sauce on the pasta, and cover once again with lasagna pasta.
Add the rest of the béchamel, and sparkle on top of it some grated cheese.

Your dish is ready to go to the oven! Cook it in thermostat 180 degrees for around 45 minutes, until the grated cheese take on a golden color!

Tip: you can add some grated parmiggiano between each stage of sauce to give to your lasagna a more cheesy taste.

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Béchamel sauce with mushrooms

22 jan

Béchamel sauce is a classic of French cooking. You can use it for any gratin, for lasagna, or as a basis for ragout. It is simple to cook but you have to be quick if you want to avoid the sauce to go lumpy. In case of, you can still sieve the béchamel.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients (for 2 person):
- 15 gr of butter
- 15 gr of flour
- 25 cl of milk
- 4 fresh mushrooms
- Salt, pepper

Peel the mushrooms and cut them into slices.
Melt down the butter into a saucepan. Add the flour and mix energetically with a whisk, then add the milk little by little, without stopping mixing.
Then add the mushrooms and cook gently, mixing the béchamel sauce from time to time.
(If the sauce is too thick, add some milk. At the contrary if the béchamel is too liquid, add some flour).

Tip: grill some slices of stale bread and cover them with the béchamel sauce with mushrooms. You can also use some feuilletés. This will make some amazing and sophisticated “bouchées à la reine” that you can serve as a starter.

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Bolognese sauce

15 jan

Originates from Bologna in Italy, Bolognese sauce is a simple mixture including tomato sauce, minced beef and onions. Spaghetti Bolognese, lasagne, moussaka, burritos, are among the international dishes that are using Bolognese sauce as a basis, with a “local touch” to give a little variation.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients (for 2 persons):
- 150 gr of minced beef
- 25 cl of tomato sauce
- 1 onion
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- 1 pinch of sugar
- Salt, pepper, fresh parsley

Peel and slice thinly the onion. Gently cook the onion in a pan along with the beef (you don’t’ need to add oil or butter as the beef has enough fat).
Add the flour, it will give consistency to the sauce.
Add the tomato sauce and 10 cl of water. Season with salt, pepper and parsley, and add the sugar to get rid of the acidity of the tomatoes.
Cook gently the sauce at low fire. The more gently you cook it, the more tasty it will be as the flavors will have time to mix together.

Tip: try to add a carrot thinly sliced, it will give a slightly sweeter taste to your Bolognese sauce.

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