Lasagne

Ingredients: 

• 1 big onion
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 can of chopped tomatoes or peeled plum tomatoes
• 500g of minced beef
• 2 spoons of olive oil
• 1 carrot  - optional
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 2 tablespoons of plain flour
• 1.5 cups of milk (approx 375 ml)
• 6 lasagne sheets
• some grated cheese
• salt
• pepper
• nutmeg
• a pinch of sugar (1/3 or teaspoon)
• dried provencal herbs mix (basil, thyme, oregano) - optional
• tomato pure - optional

1. Chop onion and garlic and fry on olive oil until gold.

2. Add minced meet and fry until brown

3. Add canned tomatoes and tomato pure, and chopped carrot (if using)

4. Add a pinch of sugar, salt, pepper and provencal herbs

5. Leave it for 10 mins on the smallest heat with the lid on until all the ingredients soak through. This will make Ragu.

6. Whilst meat is cooking make a bechamel sauce. Melt butter in the saucepan. Add flour and keep stirring until one consistency. Add all milk and keep stiring very briskly continuously for 5 mins until all the lumps disappear and sauce is thick. Important to focus on this and keep stirring from the beginning till the end. When you start seeing th bubbles going through - turn of the heat.

7. Add salt and pepper and grated nutmeg to bechamel sauce

8. Put all the ingredients in the lasagne dish in following order. Always put Ragu on the bottom so it does not burn the dish. Try to divide everything in 3 parts. First Ragu, then 2 lasagne sheets and then cover the sheets thoroughly with bechamel sauce, repeat it again and again. On the top sprinkle some grated cheese.

9. Put in the oven for 50 mins 180 degrees Celsius