Favorite food of the cat is Garthfield. Recipe for Lazagne

The hero of the American cartoon cat Gartfield was the world's largest lasagna lover. But many people all over the world also know the recipe for lasagna, which is the hallmark of Italy. In translation from Greek, lasagne means hot plates.

The first mention of lasagne refers to the XIV century, and cooked it from thin sheets of homemade noodles, which was boiled and sliced with cheese and various spices. The home of the dish is the region of Emilia-Romagna. From here, the lasagna spread all over Italy, and then the recipe for lasagna is very quickly known throughout the world.

Since then, the recipe for lasagna has changed a lot and today there are many different ways of cooking this dish. As stuffing can be used minced meat, sausages, seafood, vegetables, fruits and berries. Lasagne is so tasty that it is impossible to resist not to try to cook it at home.

Now we will tell you how to cook lasagna with minced meat. The most difficult thing in making lasagna is making a dough, so many people prefer to buy ready-made dough. As in any case, the preparation of a lasagna test has its secrets. The first secret is the quality of flour - for the preparation of dough flour is used only from wheat of solid sorts. To make a dough, you need to take 600 g of sifted flour, make a hole in it and pour 100 milliliters of cold water, 3 eggs, 50 milliliters of olive oil and throw a pinch of salt. The second secret is that all the ingredients need to be mixed long enough until the dough becomes plastic. But if you have a kneader, then there will not be any problems with this.

Ready to roll the dough into a bowl, cover with a towel and rest for half an hour. Then the dough should be divided into three parts and each roll out a thickness of 1.5-2 millimeters, sprinkling it with flour, so that the dough does not stick to the rolling pin. The rolled dough is cut into strips about 10 centimeters wide, covered with a napkin and allowed to dry for an hour, and then boiled until half cooked in salted water and begin to prepare the dish.

We offer you a recipe for lasagna with minced meat. Before preparing lasagna with minced meat, you need to prepare two sauces - Bolognese and Béchamel. To prepare the Bolognese sauce you need to take 400 grams of stuffing and fry in 50 milliliters of olive oil. At this time finely chop 8 cloves of garlic and two onions and also add to ground meat. Take the green pepper, enough three pods, cut and add to the frying pan. Three or five tomatoes to pass through a meat grinder, pour into a frying pan and simmer. At the end, when all the ingredients are well-tasted, add finely chopped greens and 120 milliliters of dry white wine.

To make a white Béchamel sauce, you have to melt 100 grams of butter in a frying pan and fry 70 grams of flour. The flour should darken, but not burn. Now you need to pour in a little 600 milliliters of milk and mix until smooth. Stew it on a small fire for about fifteen minutes, stirring constantly. In the end, you need to add salt and pepper to taste.
To prepare the dish, you need to take a special shape, grease it with olive oil and pour a little white sauce into it , put a piece of minced meat on top and cover with a lasagna leaf. Then again, pour in white sauce and continue in the same manner. Traditionally, sheets make six. The last layer should be a lasagna leaf. On top you need to pour 200 grams of grated Parmesan cheese and bake for 30 minutes until a golden crust is formed. It turns out very tasty.

Lasagne with vegetables is done in the same way, but instead of minced meat, you need to prepare a vegetable filling. To make a filling, take 300 grams of tomatoes, sweet pepper, zucchini, 200 grams of eggplant, 150 grams of stalks of celery and onions, 200 grams of hard cheese, vegetable or olive oil, garlic cloves, salt and pepper.

Vegetables are cut into pieces. Onions are fried, vegetables are added and stewed for 10 minutes, then spices are added and stewed for 5 minutes. Lasagne with vegetables is made from three sheets. At the top is poured cheese, grated. Bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes. When lasagna with vegetables is ready, cut it into portions and serve it on the table.