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What is the correct order to layer lasagne in?

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breatheslowly · 04/02/2012 22:49

Please don't tell me there isn't a correct way - I need a definitive answer. I do meat, pasta, white sauce x 3 plus some cheese on the top. But I find putting the meat sauce onto the white sauce strangely disturbing (as it is lumpy so doesn't pour on).

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ShineYourButtonsWithBrasso · 04/02/2012 22:51

Meat, lasagne sheets, mince, lasagne sheets, white sauce, grated cheese and bung in the oven.

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ILoveOnionRings · 04/02/2012 22:52

I do it the same as breatheslowly

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thrifty · 04/02/2012 22:52

Meat pasta sauce pasta meat pasta sauce cheese

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MinnieBar · 04/02/2012 22:54

Yep - mince, lasagne, repeat for as long as you have enough mince and room, cheese sauce and then finally Parmesan on top.

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DontCallMeBaby · 04/02/2012 22:56

In theory - meat, white sauce, pasta, same again twice, white sauce and a little parmesan.

In practice - meat, pasta, meat, white sauce, pasta, same again, white sauce and parmesan (because I never do quite enough white sauce and only realise when I start layering).

Definitive answer? Can't imagine there is such a thing. This is Italian (ish) food we're talking about, wars have been fought over less.

(at least I now know one dinner I'm cooking this week, mm, lasagne, yum)

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ILoveOnionRings · 04/02/2012 22:56

Oh maybe that is why mine is sometimes sloppy Confused

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ohbugrit · 04/02/2012 22:56

You're doing it right breathe, but I feel your pain with the meat onto sauce dilemma, it's just not right somehow. Any time I've tried adding pasta to separate the sauce and meat it ends up yuck.

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ShineYourButtonsWithBrasso · 04/02/2012 22:57

I meant meat, lasagne sheets and then meat not plain mince.

I need more than one layer of meat and lasagne sheet but agree that sauce and meat shouldn't mix.

How long do you cook yours in the oven for thrifty?

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Grumpla · 04/02/2012 22:57

Pasta, meat, small dollop sauce, pasta, meat, pasta, rest of sauce, grated cheese.

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Hassled · 04/02/2012 22:57

sauce at the bottom so nothing sticks to the dish. But only a smear.
pasta
meat
pasta
sauce
meat
pasta
sauce.

So 2 x meat, 3 x pasta, 3 x sauce.

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rubyrubyruby · 04/02/2012 22:58

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sausagerolemodel · 04/02/2012 22:59

brain explodes

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startail · 04/02/2012 23:00

Life is to short to make lasagne. Spag bol is much easier!

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D0oinMeCleanin · 04/02/2012 23:03

Mince, pasta, bechemal, mince, pasta, bechemal, mince, pasta, bechemal, parmesan cheese.

Cover with tin foil for the first 2/3rds of cooking time, remove tinfoil to brown cheese.

Yum.

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justonemorethread · 04/02/2012 23:04

Good job you came along ruby! I thought I was the only one to start with pasta.

Pasta
Meat cooked in tomato sauce
drizzle of white sauce
Pasta
Meat in tomato sauce
white sauce
pasta
meat and sauce
white sauce
Cheese

putting the meat first and then pouring white sauce on it is the key, I think!
(not very good cook but people like my lasagne)

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Eve · 04/02/2012 23:04

Southern Italians put in a layer of sliced boiled egg.

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rubyrubyruby · 04/02/2012 23:08

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fluffylegs · 04/02/2012 23:09

I never have enough white sauce.

With 500 g mince I reckon you need a pint and a half of sauce but I always make about a pint. I usually forget how much flour to use for the white sauce / bechamel too - I interchange between flour and corn flour.

I always forget what order it should be done ( even if I'm reading the packet)

I usually forget the basil too.


IMO Italian lasagne stands up on its own and the bechamel is much thicker. Uk lasagne is sloppier.

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justonemorethread · 04/02/2012 23:11

Yes you are a social pariah now ruby

BTW I looked up a few Italian lasagne demos they all put a bit of sauce at the bottom of pan (but just a bit, as hassled said) first.

How can you eat lasagne without bechamel??? That's the best bit!

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breatheslowly · 04/02/2012 23:13

Sliced boiled egg? That's just wrong. I'm not sure I want to tell the Italians that though.

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SleepyFergus · 04/02/2012 23:14

I do
meat, pasta, white sauce, cheese,
meat, pasta, white sauce, cheese

And so on til I run out of meat. Always finish with cheese. That's how my mum does it and I just copied her!

Oh and I add nutmeg to my white sauce - yum!

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bananarama05 · 04/02/2012 23:17

I use cottage cheese mixed with an egg instead of bechamel.

As does my mum, who was instructed to do so by "a real Italian lady she worked with" when learning to cook....allegedly anyway, but then it was the 70's so who knows!

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justonemorethread · 04/02/2012 23:18

I think I'm going to have strange lasagne/bechamel/snow dreams tonight.

meat,pasta,sauce,cheese
meat,pasta,sauce,cheese

It's already forming a nightmarish drumming rhythm in my head...

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BaronessBomburst · 04/02/2012 23:18

Dab of tomato/mince to prevent pasta sticking (bit like Hassled and proper Italians), then pasta, mince, pasta, mince, pasta, bechamel sauce, cheese.

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justonemorethread · 04/02/2012 23:20

You've got to mix your white sauce and meat sauce, ladies - It's worth it!

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