Lasagne with Minced Beef

Minced beef lasagna is a classic version of the famous Italian dish. True, according to this recipe, the meat filling, that is, the bolognese sauce, is prepared much faster than according to the canonical one, but no one will bother you to simmer it longer, so that all the ingredients are saturated with each other's tastes and aromas. In this case, the dish will turn out to be even more delicious. Many people ask what the texture of the bolognese should be. We answer: not too liquid, but also not thick, after all, this is a sauce with which the leaves are soaked in the same way as with white (béchamel). Cooking lasagna with minced beef is not very difficult: having done it once, you can easily repeat the dish as often as you or your loved ones want.

Ingredients

• 12 sheets of lasagna
• olive oil - 1 tablespoon
• 1 tsp dry thyme
• garlic - 1 clove
• 2 tbsp. l. grated parmesan
• 150 g tomatoes in their own juice
• 450 g boneless beef
• 3 tbsp. l. dry white wine
• onion - 1 onion
• 1 tsp dry oregano
• salt
• butter - 50 g
• 1/4 cup flour
• nutmeg
• 900 ml milk
• grated parmesan - 2 tbsp l.

Directions

1. Prepare the lasagna bolognese sauce. Peel and chop the onion and garlic. Pass the meat through a meat grinder to make minced meat. Heat oil in a frying pan, fry the onion, 2 minutes. Add minced meat and garlic, cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Salt and pepper.
2. Pour in wine, cook for 2 minutes. Add dry herbs and tomatoes. Stir in the meat lasagna sauce, knead the tomatoes with a spoon, and remove from heat. Cover and set aside.
3. Prepare white lasagna sauce. Heat the milk. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add flour and cook, stirring occasionally, for 2 minutes. Gradually pour in hot milk, stirring constantly with a whisk. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook while stirring. Add parmesan, nutmeg, salt and pepper.
4. Boil water in a wide saucepan, add salt. Place a bowl of cold water next to it. Dip the lasagna sheets in boiling water for 2-3 minutes. and immediately transfer to cold.
5. Preheat oven to 190 ° C. Place a layer of lasagna sheets in a baking dish, then part of the minced meat and part of the white sauce. Then put the lasagna sheets, minced meat, sauce again. Continue stacking in this way until all ingredients are used up. The top layer should be lasagna sheets. Sprinkle with Parmesan. Place in the oven and bake for 35 minutes.
6. Remove the finished lasagne from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Then cut into large pieces and arrange into portioned plates. Lasagna can be served with tomato sauce mixed with ricotta.