What sort of heathen starts of a lasagne with a layer of pasta?

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Watching Dinner Date (I know, I know ) and one guy is making lasagne. Am I the heathen as I always start off with a layer of the tomato based sauce?

From the top:
Cheese
White sauce
Pasta
Bolognese sauce
White sauce
Pasta
Bolognese sauce

I skim off the oily/saucy part of the bolasgnaise and cover the base of the dish with it then a layer of pasta, then bolagnaise and pasta layers maybe 2 or 3 then spinach covered in cheese sauce and then mozzarella on top.

It say to do so on my packet of lasagne sheets. But it just seems wrong so I don’t.

From the bottom

Red sauce
Pasta
Cheese sauce
Pasta
Redsauce
Pasta
Cheese sauce
Pasta
Redsauce
Cheese sauce
Grated cheese & breadcrumbs
Probably more cheese.

Pasta has to have sauce each side so it cooks properly!

Bologna's
Pasta
White sauce
Bolognese
Pasta
White sauce
Cheese on top
Herbs

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Do I use too much cheese?

No that’s silly. You can never have too much cheese.

It still stresses me out that I'm supposedly weird for 'precooking' my pasta sheets before putting them in. but yes some sauce needs to be on the bottom.

Ummmmm precook? I haven’t don’t that since the 80s when I think it was the done thing.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD- how are you getting so many layers in there? I can only fit 2 layers of pasta in mine.
Yeah OP, it would be wrong to put padta sheet straight at the bottom of dish... surely it would stick ...

I have a very deep lasagne dish. I love lasagne.

Well I don't know about the 80s thing because I was only born in '85 but yh it just made more sense to me to do this. Tastes great!

From the bottom

Thin layer of Bolognese
Pasta
White sauce
Bolognese
Pasta
White sauce
Bolognese
Pasta
White sauce
Bolognese
Pasta
White sauce
Cheese

On a good day can get five layers of pasta in but I spread the Bolognese - which has at least as much veggies as mince in it - very thin

I only put the cheese sauce on top with loads of parmesan.

Did it stick?

Italians start off with a layer of lasagne. At least all those surrounding me do, but there will be no hard and fast rules.
I usually get about 6-8 layers. I think that's the biggest difference between most pasta dishes eaten in Italy and eaten in the UK. Ours are more pasta/less sauce whereas in the UK it seems to be the opposite

No to pasta on the bottom, and another no to pre-cooking the lasagne sheets. And a big, fat no to cheese sauce. Quel horreur!

I do, from bottom to top: ragu, pasta, bechamel. Then repeat the layers twice. Finish with a generous sprinkle of parmesan on top.

It's easier to serve if there's a layer of pasta at the bottom as you can pick up the whole slice without having to go back to the dish and scoop up the remaining sauce.

We mix the meat sauce with the bechamel as well, apart from the top layer. Again though, it's down to preferences, my Sil makes hers without bechamel at all. And the most popular TV ad for lasagne (Barilla) has them putting a meat sauce layer on top.

I always start mine with a layer of pasta. And i only put the cheese sauce on the top. My lasagne is excellent (so I have been told).

Bolognese always on the bottom.I.Don't like my lasagne too sloppy

So I do
Bolognese
Pasta
Bolognese
Layer of mozzarella
Pasta
Bolognese
Proper bechamel sauce with parmesan, Dijon mustard and a grated cheddar on top
Its lovely.

Made lasagne tonight and I always put the sheets in the bottom. Makes for a really nice slice and easier to get out the dish if you have a solid sheet of pasta to get the fish slice under.

Dinner date

Well Gino's lasagne (which is fabulous btw) starts with a layer of bechamel on the bottom.

I do bolognese,pasta,cheese,pasta,white sauce,cheese,pasta,bolognese,cheese,pasta,white sauce then cheese on top

Cheese on every layer is so much better :)

www.ginodacampo.com/recipe/authentic-italian-lasagne-di-mamma/

I used to think this until I tried it on the recommendation of an Italian chef. It cooked through, didn't stick and made for better structural integrity.