Best Ever Red White Sauce Lasagna Food

RED AND WHITE SAUCE LASAGNA

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan .
• Warm up the milk in a small saucepan, but don't let it boil.
• Add the flour to the melted butter and stir to form a roux . Cook for about two minutes.
• Slowly whisk in the warm milk, stirring well to get rid of any flour lumps. Season with kosher salt.
• Turn off the heat and reserve, covered.
• Gather the ingredients.
• In a large skillet or heavy-bottomed saucepan, heat up the olive oil and add the ground beef and pork.
• Cook until all the meat is well browned, approximately 8 minutes.
• Drain excess fat from the meat, reserving 2 tablespoons in the skillet, and remove the meat mixture from the pan. Cover and set aside.
• Add the onion to the skillet with the reserved fat and sauté until translucent, for about 6 to 7 minutes.
• Add the mushrooms and garlic to the skillet and cook until the mushrooms are soft, or 5 minutes.
• Return the meat to the pan and stir well.
• Add the tomato sauce and dried herbs to the meat, garlic, and onions. Stir well.
• Bring the meat sauce to a simmer and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the red sauce from heat and season to taste with kosher salt and black pepper.
• Gather the ingredients.
• Preheat the oven to 400 F. In a 3-quart ovenproof baking dish , ladle enough of the red meat sauce to cover the bottom of the baking dish.
• Arrange a layer of pasta atop the red meat sauce and then another layer of red sauce.
• Drizzle roughly 1/3 of the white sauce evenly atop the red sauce.
• Repeat the previous step twice by layering layers of pasta, red sauce, and white sauce.
• Spread the shredded mozzarella on top of the final white sauce layer.
• Sprinkle the grated Parmesan on top of the mozzarella.
• Cover the dish tightly with foil and bake for 40 minutes.
• After 40 minutes, remove foil and bake for about 10 more minutes, or until the cheese on top has browned slightly. Remove lasagna from oven and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Serve and enjoy!

LASAGNE AL FORNO

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to160C/325F/Gas 3.
• For the ragu, heat a large frying pan until hot and add the oil. Cook the mince until browned all over. Remove from the heat and transfer to a plate. Add the onion, celery (if using) and garlic to the pan and cook until softened. Return the meat to the pan and stir in the flour. Add the stock and bring to the boil. Add the redcurrant jelly (or sugar), tomato purée and thyme, then stir well.
• Stir in the canned tomatoes. Bring to the boil again, cover and simmer in the oven for 1-½ hours, or until the beef is tender.
• For the white sauce, melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the flour and cook over the heat for one minute. Gradually whisk in the hot milk, whisking until thickened. Add the Dijon mustard and parmesan cheese and season well with salt and pepper.
• For the lasagne, put one third of the meat sauce in the base of a 2.3 litre/4 pint shallow ovenproof dish. Spoon one third of the white sauce on top. Arrange one layer of lasagne sheets on top. Season. Spoon half of the remaining meat sauce on top and then half of the white sauce. Put another layer of lasagne sheets on top, then the remaining meat sauce and remaining white sauce. Sprinkle over the cheddar cheese.
• Leave for six hours before cooking so that the pasta can start to soften.
• Preheat the oven temperature to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
• Cook in the middle of the oven for about 45 minutes- or until golden brown on top, bubbling around the edges and the pasta is soft.

RED AND WHITE LASAGNA

Steps:

• To make the red sauce, heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook until soft, about 5 minutes.
• Add the ground beef, sausage, Italian seasoning and cook until meat is no longer pink, breaking up the meat as you go. Add the crushed tomatoes and broth and bring to a simmer. Stir in the sugar, then salt and pepper, to taste. Simmer, partially covered for about an hour.
• Meanwhile, prepare the white sauce by melting the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the flour.
• Gradually whisk in the milk and cream, and bring to a simmer. Stir in the nutmeg, Parmesan cheese and salt and pepper, to taste. Cook until cheese is melted and sauce is thickened.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking pan. Cover the bottom of the pan with a layer of the meat sauce. Top with 3-4 lasagna noodles, a layer of white sauce, and 1/4 of the mozzarella cheese. Repeat layers twice more.
• Add one final layer of noodles to the top of the lasagna, then top with the remaining meat sauce and the remaining cheese. Reserve additional white sauce to spoon over the lasagna.
• Bake, covered, for about 30 minutes. Uncover and bake about 20 minutes more, or until the top is browned and bubbly. Let stand 10-15 minutes before slicing and serving, with extra white sauce on the side.

BEST EVER RED & WHITE SAUCE LASAGNA

Steps:

• Begin by making the red sauce as it needs time to simmer and reduce.
• In large heavy bottom sauce pan over medium/ high heat Sauté in olive oil half the onion add salt and pepper to taste.
• Once onion is slightly browned add in the 5 cloves of crushed garlic, Sauté for a couple minutes.
• Add the entire can of tomato paste and sauté carefully & stir continuously (it burns easily) until cooked about 2-3 minutes.
• Next Stir in The 2 jars of Passata and 1 can of crushed tomatoes, re- season with salt and pepper.
• Add wine to thin sauce to a light chunk style sauce. Stirring Sauce occasionally as it will reduce and become thicker re-season with additional salt if any is required,Lower heat to simmer. Stir occasionally.
• Stir in 1-3 tablespoons of Italian dry herb seasoning to taste.
• Chop 10 basil leaves into strips reserving half for ricotta mixture and gently half into sauce.
• In separate pan begin to sauté sausage.
• Add a slight bit of olive oil, allow to heat then add sausages with casings removed Brown until cooked completely.
• With a slotted spoon remove sausage to a plate lined with a paper towel to drain. Reserving sausage drippings in pan.
• Add remaining onion to sausage oil and sauté onion until slightly caramelized. Salt and Pepper.
• Chop garlic and mince into a paste the remaining cloves and stir until cooked.
• Combine the onion oil mixture into the tomato sauce. This will add a thickness to your sauce.
• Simmer for at least 30 minutes
• While Red Sauce is reducing in other heavy bottom pan begin to work on fillings and White Sauce.
• Add butter & flour, Cook over low/med heat for about 3 minutes.
• Add entire pint of cream.
• Allow to slowly come to simmer.
• Grate in 2 teaspoons of fresh nutmeg.
• Add half of the milk reserve the remainder of milk Simmer for 5 minutes( DO NOT BOIL).
• White Sauce should be able to coat the back of spoon if sauce is too thick like a paste or glue add remainder of milk slowly little by little until texture is more sauce like smooth slightly thick.
• Remove from burner and let stand.
• Prepare Ricotta Mixture:.
• In a large glass or plastic bowl take reserved fresh basil and combine with 1 entire large jar of ricotta salt and pepper.
• Mix well. Make sure mixture is properly seasoned and add 1 beaten egg.
• Combine all ingredients well. Set aside.
• Lasagna Assembly.
• In large 11 by 15 GLASS baking dish, spray with original flavored Pam or any other non stick non flavored cooking spray.
• Ladle 1 cup red sauce or enough to coat the bottom of the entire baking dish.
• Arrange 1st layer of Noodles to cover bottom of pan.
• Add layer of Ricotta mixture .
• Cover with Mozzarella cheese.
• Ladle red sauce until cheese mixture is covered.
• Arrange 2nd noodle layer to cover.
• Add a thin layer of Ricotta mixture.
• Using a separate ladle than the red ladle in a layer of white sauce to cover the ricotta mixture.
• Spoon the sausage onto the white sauce to cover.
• Cover the sausage with the Italian blend cheese mix.
• Arrange 3rd noodle layer to cover.
• Add layer of Ricotta mixture .
• Add a layer of Italian blend cheese.
• Cover with red sauce .
• Add final noodle layer.
• Cover noodle with red sauce then a thick coating of Mozzarella cheese .
• Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.
• Allow Lasagna to stand at room temperature for at least 45 minutes to set up before cutting into it.

RED, WHITE, AND GREEN LASAGNE

Steps:

• In a large non-stick skillet heat oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté bell peppers, stirring, until crisp-tender. In a bowl stir together bell peppers and ricotta, stirring until combined well. In a vegetable steamer set over simmering water steam broccoli, covered, until crisp-tender, 3 to 5 minutes, and stir into ricotta mixture with salt and pepper to taste.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Pour 1 cup tomato sauce into a baking dish, 13 by 9 by 2 inches (sauce will not cover bottom completely), and cover with 3 lasagne sheets, making sure they do not touch each other. Drop about 1 1/2 cups ricotta mixture by spoonfuls onto pasta and gently spread with back of a spoon. Sprinkle 3/4 cup mozzarella and 1/3 cup Parmesan over ricotta mixture and make 2 more layers in same manner, beginning and ending with pasta. Spread remaining cup tomato sauce over pasta, making sure pasta is completely covered, and sprinkle with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan.
• Cover dish tightly with foil, tenting slightly to prevent foil from touching top layer, and bake in middle of oven 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake lasagne 10 minutes more, or until top is bubbling. Let lasagne stand 5 minutes before serving.

CLASSIC LASAGNA

Steps:

• Make the sauce: Heat oil in a large, heavy bottomed pot over medium heat. Add sausage, if using, and cook, stirring occasionally, until it's starting to brown but not yet crisp, about 5 minutes.
• Add onion and garlic and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is totally softened and translucent (without letting it brown), 8 to 10 minutes. Add tomato paste and continue to cook, stirring until the tomato paste has turned a deeper brick red color, tinting the oil and onions a fiery orange color, about 2 minutes.
• Using your hands, crush the whole tomatoes into smaller, bite-size pieces and add them and the crushed tomatoes, stirring to scrape up any bits from the bottom of the pot. Fill one of the tomato cans halfway with water and add it to the pot. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomato sauce has thickened and flavors have come together, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Make the lasagna: Heat oven to 375 degrees and set a large pot of salted water to boil.
• Set aside 1 cup mozzarella. In a medium bowl, combine remaining mozzarella, ricotta, 1 cup Parmesan and cream; season with salt and pepper and set aside.
• Cook lasagna noodles in the large pot of salted boiling water until just softened (before they are even aldente), about 4 minutes. Drain and separate any noodles that are trying to stick together, slicking them with a bit of olive oil to prevent them from sticking further.
• Spoon a bit of sauce on the bottom of a 3-quart baking dish and top with a layer of noodles, avoiding any heavy overlap.
• Top with about 1 ¼ cups of sauce, and dollop ¼ of the cheese mixture over. Top with another layer of noodles and repeat three more times, ending with the last of the noodles (depending on size of the noodle/shape of the baking dish, you may have a few extra noodles) and the last of the sauce. Top with reserved 1 cup mozzarella and more Parmesan, if you like.
• Cover loosely with aluminum foil and place baking dish on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet (to prevent any overflow from burning on the bottom of your oven).
• Bake until pasta is completely tender and cooked through and sauce is bubbling up around the edges, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove foil and increase temperature to 450 degrees. Continue to bake until lasagna is golden brown on top with frilly, crispy edges and corners, another 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool slightly before eating.

LASAGNE

Steps:

• First, make the béchamel sauce. Put the milk, onion, bay leaves and cloves into a large saucepan and bring very gently just up to the boil. Turn off the heat and set aside for 1 hr to infuse.
• For the meat sauce, put the oil, celery, onion, carrot, garlic and pancetta in another large saucepan. Gently cook together until the veg is soft but not coloured.
• Tip in the beef and pork mince, the milk and chopped tomatoes. Using a wooden spoon, stir together and break up and mash the lumps of mince against the sides of the pan. When the mince is mostly broken down, stir in all the herbs, the stock cubes and the red wine, and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook for 1 hr, stirring occasionally to stop the bottom catching.
• Uncover and gently simmer for another 30 mins-1 hr until the meat is tender and saucy. Taste and season.
• To finish the béchamel sauce, strain the milk through a fine sieve into one or two jugs. Melt the butter in the same pan then, using a wooden spoon, mix in the flour and cook for 2 mins.
• Stir in the strained milk, a little at a time - the mix will thicken at first to a doughy paste, but keep going, adding milk gradually to avoid lumps. Bring to a gentle simmer, stirring constantly (if you have lumps, give it a quick whisk). Gently bubble for a few minutes until thickened. Season with salt, pepper and a good grating of nutmeg.
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Spread a spoonful of the meat sauce over the base of a roughly 3.5-litre baking dish. Cover with a single layer of dried pasta sheets, snapping them to fit if needed, then top with a quarter of the béchamel. Spoon over a third of the meat sauce and scatter over a little of the parmesan.
• Repeat the layers - pasta, béchamel, meat and parmesan - two more times to use all the meat sauce. Add a final layer of pasta, the last of the béchamel and remaining parmesan. Sit the dish on a baking tray to catch spills and bake for 1 hr until bubbling, browned and crisp on top.

CHICKEN LASAGNA WITH WHITE AND RED SAUCE

Steps:

• In saucepan, combine tomatoes, garlic, bay leaf, thyme, cayenne pepper, olive oil, sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Cook lasagna noodles in boiling salted water for about 10 minutes, or until just tender. Drain and run cold water over them to stop the cooking; pat dry.
• In a cup, stir a few tablespoons of cold water into the 3 tablespoons flour. Stir until a smooth paste forms.
• Place chicken broth and milk in a saucepan and heat. Add flour mixture to the liquid; add salt and pepper to taste, then stir in parsley. Continue to cook, stirring, until mixture is thickened and bubbling. Pour a thin layer of tomato mixture into a large 13x9x2-inch baking dish. Top with a layer of lasagna noodles placed side-by-side. Add a layer of chicken; sprinkle some of the mozzarella cheese over chicken. Top with a layer of chicken broth white sauce. Add another layer of lasagna, more tomato sauce, another layer of chicken, mozzarella cheese, and white sauce; repeat until all ingredients are used or dish is full, finishing with a layer of lasagna noodles. Sprinkle chicken lasagna with the grated Parmesan cheese. Bake chicken lasagna at 375° for 25 to 35 minutes, or until browned and bubbly.