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Weirdest thing you've had in a lasagne?

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lasangya · 15/11/2022 21:07

My DH wants me to put carrots in a lasagne. Yay or nay? What's the weirdest or nicest thing you've put in a lasagne?

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bigfamilygrowingupfast · 15/11/2022 23:12

Yay yay yay! Always put carrots in a bolognaise, usually grated. Adds sweetness

whoknows1230 · 15/11/2022 23:14

I add whatever veg we have available - carrot and courgette (both grated), mushrooms, tinned toms, sweetcorn, peppers, spinach. I also sometimes add a handful of lentils or porridge oats to pad out the mince. When it’s cooked you can barely tell they’re in there

IDidntKnowItWasAParty · 15/11/2022 23:32

I grate the carrots into the tomato sauce - extra veg that you don't even notice

twotoedsloth · 16/11/2022 00:08

Veggie burgers. It was made by MIL.

ALongHardWinter · 16/11/2022 01:11

I'm not sure if I imagined (or dreamt!) this,but I'm sure I bought,many years ago (mid/late '80s) a lasagne from M and S that had smoked haddock in it. Very nice it was too!

BloodyMabel · 16/11/2022 02:18

Elderflower14 · 15/11/2022 22:07

I used to buy a scummy chicken and bacon lasagne from M and S. They then of course stopped making it so I now make my own...
When I was working in the school kitchen they used to serve Baked Bean lasagne!!

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Yes! I loved the chicken and bacon lasagne! Can I have your recipe please?

Owlnoises · 16/11/2022 03:43

My worst lasagne experience wasn't about went in but what was left out. My friend made a lasagne without garlic and without tomato sauce. I did identify a couple of chunks of tinned tomato. Envy I keep having to find reasons to avoid her cooking.

Qwerty111 · 16/11/2022 11:36

The canteen at work once made a veggie lasagne with leftover Christmas lunch veg.

And this teaches us the following valuable life lesson: Never put chunks of Brussel sprout into a lasagne

Suprima · 16/11/2022 11:42

Only in the tomato sauce base with onions and celery as people have said

no chunks of carrot please. No chunks of any vegetable.

lentils in mince is good as a cost saver and taste relatively neutral. I wouldn’t say that’s odd- but a good way to make mince go further. And most regions use lots of pulses and legumes…

i had a lasagne in Milan with ham, boiled eggs and peas- authentic but not for me.

PuntoEBasta · 16/11/2022 15:46

Yes, it gives me absolutely no pleasure to confirm that sliced hard-boiled eggs in lasagne are very much authentic, although more common in Naples / Sicily etc than the north. Very often 'authentic' ≠ 'good'.

Geamhradh · 16/11/2022 15:50

spidereggs · 15/11/2022 21:30

Boiled egg sliced!!! I forgot that. I think I'm also still recovering... it was the post about ham reminded me

That's a typical northern Puglia lasagne. Thankfully I'm in Puglia but further down so have never had it.

Geamhradh · 16/11/2022 15:50

PuntoEBasta · 16/11/2022 15:46

Yes, it gives me absolutely no pleasure to confirm that sliced hard-boiled eggs in lasagne are very much authentic, although more common in Naples / Sicily etc than the north. Very often 'authentic' ≠ 'good'.

Ain't that the truth. 😂

BathshebaKnickerStickers · 17/02/2023 15:30

My family bring up the day I made fish finger lasagna. It was in a recipe book.

They almost threw me out of the family

Iateallthewotsits · 17/02/2023 15:33

Mashed potatoes on top.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 17/02/2023 15:43

I once ordered courgette lasagna because it was the only vegetarian thing on the menu.

It turned out the courgette was instead of the pasta sheets, so the whole thing (luckily not much because this was at the NO) was slimy and formless.

Cookerhood · 17/02/2023 15:44

Tesco used to make a chilli con carne lasagne with tortilla chips on top. DH still moans about them discontinuing it.
I didn't like it so I've never tried to recreate it!

BertaHoon · 17/02/2023 15:49

FeelinSpendy · 15/11/2022 21:14

Smoked fish (although there was no beef).

This. A smoked haddock lasagne. It was at my friends house in the 80's. They were considered posh, so aged 10 I went with it.

It wasn't bad. But it wasn't a lasagne!

Nothing wrong with a tiny chopped carrot added to garlic and onions. Preferable to celery which I can puke from a thousand paces.

BertaHoon · 17/02/2023 15:55

Actually stewing steak (tinned).

I'm so sorry Nan waves skywards It kind of wasn't that bad. It's just you ran out of tomatoes and discovered you only had burger slice cheese.

I'll always love you. But especially. I bet you only got cremated as you were worried I'd put you on a gravestone🤣

I still miss you my love.

BertaHoon · 17/02/2023 15:57

TheYearOfSmallThings · 17/02/2023 15:43

I once ordered courgette lasagna because it was the only vegetarian thing on the menu.

It turned out the courgette was instead of the pasta sheets, so the whole thing (luckily not much because this was at the NO) was slimy and formless.

It's a well known low carb option.

Doesn't sound great!

PandaG · 17/02/2023 16:03

Baked bean lasagne was a staple in our shared house when I was a student - there was a recipe in 'Grub on a grant'. Was sauteed onions and finely diced carrot, mixed with baked beans and a good shake of mixed herbs. Layered up with grated cheese and lasagne sheets, and a standard cheese sauce on the top. If you do cheese sauce in between the pasta it's too sloppy. Sounds grim but is surprisingly tasty!

CaptainMerica · 17/02/2023 16:08

Owlnoises · 16/11/2022 03:43

My worst lasagne experience wasn't about went in but what was left out. My friend made a lasagne without garlic and without tomato sauce. I did identify a couple of chunks of tinned tomato. Envy I keep having to find reasons to avoid her cooking.

My MIL, who is usually a fantastic cook, made one without the slightest trace of tomato. It didn't have garlic either. I kept having to shush the kids, when they were insisting it wasn't lasagne.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 17/02/2023 16:10

It's a well known low carb option.

I am a stranger to the low carb lifestyle Grin

LaMarschallin · 17/02/2023 16:45

Tryfull · 15/11/2022 21:49

My friend once made a stewed apple and cinnamon lasagne with custard for the top layer! It was actually quite nice but definitely weird.

I've been given lasagne as a pudding too!
What would have been cheese sauce in a savoury one was custard, and what would have been the minced meat sauce was bananas and tinned peaches.
It was okay but not something I'd choose.

I also used to dislike big cubes/discs of carrot in lasagne until I discovered the concept of sofrito in ragu and realised it shouldn't be in big pieces.

ncedforthisone · 21/03/2023 23:43

I put a little oyster sauce in my ragu, which makes it taste very savoury.

Best lasagna I have had was a fish one, with white sauce, as a child. Wish I had the recipe. And close second, was Delia's veggie and goats cheese lasagna a flatmate once made. I really should try to find that recipe, because it was delicious.

DomesticShortHair · 21/03/2023 23:46

Horse. Thank you, Birds-Eye.