Preparing lasagna before hand?

[juliaemma]

Im having friends over tomm, and one is vegi. So im making one vegi lasangna and one normal...this will take a while to prepare, so can i do both erlier on and leave them in the fridge until cooking time? Or is that not going to work? Will it still taste as fresh?

yep, no problem for both, you can leave them in the fridge for the night if you make them the day before. In fact it tastes better IMO !

agree with fredly usually tastes better when left.

always do this if I'm having lasagne

I don't tend to make it up before hand (ie build the layers..) - sometmes the pasta can suffer if you do that - but frequently leave dp with a pile of roasted veggies and the cheese sauce and tell him to bung it together and sling it in the oven when ready!

sorry to crash - can I just ask.. can you freeze uncooked lasagne in a pyrex dish and then cook it from frozen? would that work?

I wouldn't

moisture levels and thawing and all that, don't have a specific reason for it, though, just wouldn't

What you could do is to make up the vegetable, neat and cheese sauces today, and keep those in the fridge until you're ready to put them all together tomorrow.

Or maybe you could consider doing vegetable lasagne for everyone? My (very much meat-eating) dh and dd really like veg lasagne with lots of chunky mushrooms, courgettes and peppers in.

I have a recipe that gives an option of, once you've made it up, putting it into the freezer and then cookinh iot from forzen (double the time - but from memery, it acually needs longer). Not sure if the pyrex dish can take it though!

I always do

LAsagne is ok frozen, used to work in a kitchen and the lasagne was made into individual portions and put in freezer although they used to cook for a short time in microwave before putting them in the oven