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MARI'S COOK BOOK
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Lasagne.
500g lasagne (either fresh or ready to use from a packet);
700g canned concentrated tomatoes or tomato passata
which usually comes in a jar;
400g minced meat (in Italy they use a mixture of beef
pork and anything else that’s going);
2 carrots;
1 stick of celery;
2 tablespoons of parsley;
1 large spring onion;
100g butter;
200g parmesan cheese;
½ litre milk;
2 tablespoons flour;
3 tablespoons olive oil;
1 chicken stock cube;
1 tablespoon basil;
chilli powder;
salt & pepper.
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Chop the vegetables and basil finely.
Heat the oil and cook the vegetables for about 10 minutes. Add the meat, crumble in the stock cube with some salt, pepper and chilli powder and cook for 10 minutes on a medium heat.
Now add the concentrated tomato passata and simmer on a very low heat for 2 hours.
Meanwhile prepare the béchamel sauce. Melt the butter, and slowly stir in the flour. Add the cold milk a little at a time whilst continually stirring it to keep it smooth. Bring the sauce to the boil gradually for 1 minute and then put it to the side.
Grate the parmesan cheese.
Now you are ready to combine everything. Cover the bottom of an ovenproof dish with a thin layer of meat sauce and then layers of the other ingredients like this: lasagna, béchamel, meat sauce, cheese. Finish with a layer of cheese.
Cook in the oven for 1 hour at 200C.
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