Marion’s Best Lasagne - Marion's Kitchen (2024)

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Marion’s Best Lasagne

Ingredients

Steps

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  For the meat sauce, heat the olive oil in a deep-frying pan over high heat. Addhalfthe beef and spread it out in the pan.Allow to sear for 4-5minutes or until you get a nice deep colour on the bottom of the mince.Season with salt and thenflip the beef over in chunks. Allow to sear another 2-3 minutes. Then add in the rest of the beef mince and stir-fry, breaking up the cooked mince with a spatula.

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  Add the garlic and cook for anotherhalf a minute. Then add the tomatoes, miso paste, tomato paste, soy sauce,star aniseand oregano. Simmer for30 minutes.

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  For the cheese sauce, whisk alltheingredients inlargebowl untilwell combined.

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  Preheat the oven to 180°C/356°F.

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  Spread 1 cup of meat sauce in the bottom of a 3L capacity casserole or baking dish (mine is about 35cm x 7cm x 25cm).Place thelasagnesheets on top, being sure to break up the sheets to that you have an even layer. Spread one-third of the meat sauce over thelasagnesheets. Then dollop over half of the cheese sauce and spread it out in an even layer. Sprinkle with a third of the grated mozzarella. Then repeat withthe anotherlayer oflasagnesheets, one-third of the meat sauce, the other half of the cheese sauce and another third of thegrated mozzarella. Then place one more layer oflasagnesheets on top. Spread over the final one third of the meat sauce.

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  Mix the remaining one-third of the mozzarella with the parmesan cheese. Sprinkle evenly over the meat sauce. Cover with baking paper and then with foil. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

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  Remove the baking paper and foil and allow thelasagneand then bake for another 5-10 minutes or until the cheese is bubbling and golden.

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  Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 15-20 minutes so that the layers set and cool a little before slicing and serving.

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  Notes:

  – Shiro Miso is a white miso paste and is commonly found in the Asian aisle of most supermarkets or from an Asian grocery store.

BeefComfort foodDinnerFamily favouritesWeekend meals

19-12no-boillasagnesheets(about 375g/13 oz)

500g (1.1lb)grated mozzarella

1 heaped cup finelygratedparmesan (about 50g/1.7 oz)

Meat sauce:

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1kg (2.2lb)beef mince

6garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 x 400g(14 oz)cans whole peeled tomatoes

1 x 400g (14 oz) crushed tomatoes

1/3cupshiromiso paste*

3 tbsp tomato paste

¼ cup soy sauce

2 staranise

½ tsp dried oregano

Cheese sauce:

500g (1.1lb) cottage cheese

2 cups finely grated parmesancheese(about 100g/3.5 oz)

1 cup cream

¼tsp finely grated nutmeg

1 teaspoon cornflour (cornstarch)

1 tsp sea salt