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Lasagna
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Lasagna

A sauce (meat or tomato) layered in a pan with no-boil lasagna sheets and with cream and cheese, baked in the oven until the cheese turns golden, sometimes covered with foil for the first part; or cooked noodles layered with the sauce, with beaten eggs poured over the top.

⏱ 1 hr 8 min🧩 2 parts
🧀 Dairy🥬 Vegetarian
Versions:Original🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Tomato sauce

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 180°C (355°F).
    ⚙ Preheating the OvenOven
    💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
  2. 2
    In a bowl, mix the tomatoes with the salt. Don't cook it: the sauce cooks on the pizza in the oven.
    ⚙ SimmeringStoveSmall saucepan
    💡Spread cooled sauce on pizza: hot sauce softens the dough even before baking.
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.

To assemble

  1. 3
    Layer in a baking pan: the tomato sauce, the lasagna sheets and mozzarella, and repeat the layers 3 times, finishing with a layer of mozzarella.
    Baking pan
  2. 4
    Bake 40 minutes, until the cheese is bubbling and golden.
    ⚙ BakingOvenBaking pan
    💡Check by the cue (until…), not just the clock: every oven bakes a little differently.
528calories
35 gprotein
36 gcarbs
27 gfat
● protein 27%● carbs 27%● fat 46%

Per serving (216 g), of 4 servings

For the Tomato sauce · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • Oven · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Toaster oven (Fits one small pan; good for small batches) · Air fryer (Small batches only, no runny batters) · Pot (Only for covered stews on the stovetop, no browning on top)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Baking pan · Also works: Glass / ovenproof baking dish (None) · Disposable pan (None)

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Lasagna sheets (no precooking) · Cream · Ricotta · Mozzarella · Beaten eggs on top · Parmesan on top · Baked covered with foil (minutes) (30) · Rest before cutting (minutes) (10) · Yellow cheese on top · Yellow cheese in the layers and on top · Mozzarella on top · Ready-made béchamel · Pan size (cm) (22 by 30) · How many sheets in each layer (three sheets) · Basil leaves for serving · Eggs in the pasta · Greasing the pan
  • Name of the sauce in the steps (the meat sauce): the tomato sauce
  • Name of the cooked pasta in the steps (the noodles): the pasta
  • How many times to repeat the layers: 3 times
  • Oven temperature (°C): 180
  • Baking time (minutes; if covered: after removing the cover): 40
  • How much filling in each layer: a third

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