Who is BU, 1 or 2, lasagne building

[Stevearnottsbeard]

Lighthearted but I'm intrigued as to how everyone else puts together their lasagna... Not the ingredients or cooking but the actual 'building' of it, me and my husband disagree.
So I've been making it the same way for years, husband has never complained about it and loves it but last night was surprised to find out how I constructed it, he said he would do it differently, so which way you would agree with:

1. Meat, pasta, white sauce, repeat, cheese on top.
2. Pasta, meat, repeat, white sauce on top only, cheese

I do 2. The pasta base means that it lifts out in nice neat slices (and I’ve never had it stick - I grease the tin).

1 with 3 layers of everything

I do 2, the pasta at the bottom gives it a good base

Pasta, meat, pasta, white sauce, pasta, meat, pasta, white sauce... I like my pasta.

@TatianaBis

I hope by white sauce people mean bechamel. Much more concerned about that than the layering.

The difference being nutmeg?

Come on then @Stevearnottsbeard what way do you do it?

I do version 1

I do meat, white sauce, pasta and repeat and then dump the rest of the meat and then white sauce on the top but I’m starting to think I’m getting the white sauce/pasta layer wrong 😬

I tried 2 once and the pasta welded itself to the dish.

1. But I use cheesy sauce, not white sauce.

How do you serve it if the bottom layer isn’t pasta? Isn’t that a mess on the plate?

And yes, it should be bechamel not white sauce!!!

I would do 2 but you are definitely 1 @Stevearnottsbeard

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

Lasagne bechamel has cheese and nutmeg. And sometimes bay.

1

My recipe (loved by my Italian dh and one of the few things that he tells me is way better than his mum's version!) is:

Meat sauce

Pasta, meat sauce, bechamel, mozzarella slices, grated parmigiano, (repeat two more times)

Pasta, bechamel then grated parmigiano

I do 1 and I bet you do too, OP.

1.tiny bit of bechamel on bottom to stop it sticking
2 pasta
3 meat sauce
4 bechamel
5 pasta
6 meat sauce
7 bechamel
8 pasta
9 bechamel plus sprinkled cheese.

mmmmmm lasagne. makes shopping list.

Ooh neither. Meat, sauce, pasta x 2 then meat sauce and mosarella on the top layer.

I thought the Italian way was to have cheese sauce as the bottom layer, followed by pasta, followed by the ragu, repeat till you've used all the ragu up and ending in a last layer of cheese sauce, with cheese on top? Or maybe I made that up because I like it that way

I have to admit I use a jar of lasagna white sauce so I'm not sure what it's classed as. I have tried making bechamel sauce on numerous occasions, I just can't get to grips with it so I cheat, but I make the ragu from scratch including veg such as carrots, peppers and mushrooms.
I am 1. It never occurred to me before to make it any other way, but I do however take people's point about pasta on the bottom making it easier to serve so as I compromise next time I will do that, but I'm not cutting down on my white sauce!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂

See this thread as well for all your lasagne varieties!

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4051748-Lasagna-with-cheese-on-top

If you want pasta on the bottom, butter the cish and then put down a very thin layer of bechamel

So I do
Small sauce layer... pasta meat pasta sauce meat pasta sauce cheese sprinkled on the top

2, starting with pasta in the dish first and only one very generous topping of cheese sauce, with cheese on top. I'm intrigued at these other ways though, and will have a go next time!

Neither.

I start with a little bechamel in the bottom, then pasta meat sauce bechamel with a little sauce and repeat finishing with pasta then bechamel and cheese.

1 for sure. Keeps the lasagne creamy and a good amount of sauce. 2 makes it quite dry