Lasagna Bolognese

Name: Lasagna Bolognese
Prep time: 4 h 45 min
Cook time: 4 h 45 min
Total time: 4 h 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 57 grams diced pancetta, finely chopped; 1 medium Spanish onion or yellow onion, finely chopped; 1 stalk celery, finely chopped; 1 carrot, finely chopped; 4 Tbsps unsalted butter; 312 grams ground beef; 113 grams ground pork; 113 grams ground Italian sausage; 1 freshly ground clove; 1 Dash freshly ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 907 grams peeled and chopped tomatoes (or 1 28-oz can whole peeled tomatoes); 237 milliliters whole milk; 1 teaspoons sea salt; 473 milliliters whole milk; 59 milliliters unsalted butter; 59 milliliters all-purpose unbleached flour; 9 inches Enough lasagna noodles to make four layers in a 13x baking pan with the lasagna pieces overlapping each other a little bit; 16 sheets Recommended of De Cecco brand Italian lasagna noodles; 237 milliliters freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Lasagna Bolognese is a sauce that serves 8. This recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 694 calories, 30g of protein, and 36g of fat. Plenty of people really liked this Mediterranean dish. If you have pancetta, enough lasagna noodles to make four layers in a 13x baking pan, ground sausage, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 4 hours and 45 minutes. Users who liked this recipe also liked Lasagna Bolognese, Lasagna Bolognese, and Lasagna Bolognese.

Instructions

Prepare the Bolognese Meat Sauce

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Meat

Combine pancetta, onion, celery, and carrot in sauté pan with butter and cook over medium heat until onion turns pale gold.

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Pancetta

Butter

Carrot

Celery

Onion

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Add the beef, pork, sausage to the soffritto, and increase the heat to high; cook until browned.

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Sausage

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Sprinkle with the ground clove, cinnamon, and pepper.

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3 Stir in tomatoes, bring to a simmer and reduce the heat to medium. Cook over medium heat for 15 minutes. If you are using whole canned tomatoes, break them up as you add them to the sauce.

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Add milk and season with sea salt. Then turn down the heat and let simmer for 2 and 1/2 hours. Stir at least every 20 minutes. Whenever the sauce simmers down to the point that it is sticking to the bottom of the pan, just add 1/4 cup of water and scrape up the browned bits from the bottom and continue to cook.

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Sea Salt

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Water

Milk

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Make the Béchamel sauce

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Sauce

5 Make the roux:

Heat the milk until almost boiling in a heavy bottomed sauce pan.

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Milk

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In a separate pan melt the unsalted butter with the flour over low heat. Stir rapidly with a spoon. Cook this for 1 minute and then remove from the heat. (See Wikipedia on Béchamel Sauce for more information on this sauce.)

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Unsalted Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sauce

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6 Slowly add half the milk to the roux: Slowly add half the hot milk to your butter and flour mixture. During this process stir constantly.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Add remaining milk, thicken the sauce: Return the milk, butter, flour mixture to low heat until the sauce begins to thicken.

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Add the remaining milk slowly while stirring working it into the thickened sauce. Continue to stir until it comes to a boil.

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8 Season, stir: Season with some sea salt, and continue stirring until the right consistency has developed. If any lumps form, beat them out rapidly with a whisk until they dissolve.

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Sea Salt

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Whisk

Remove from heat.

Prepare the Lasagna

9 Cook the lasagna noodles: Preheat oven to 375°F. Cook the lasagna according to instructions. About 8 minutes in 6 quarts of boiling salted water.

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Lasagne Noodles

Water

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Oven

Drain, rinse with cold water.

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Water

Lay the individual lasagna noodles out on kitchen towels, not touching, so they do not stick together while you layer the casserole.

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Lasagne Noodles

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Spread a little olive oil around the inside of a 13x9-inch baking pan. Make sure your baking pan is non-reactive - pyrex or stainless steel. Do not use an aluminum pan as it will react with the acidity of the sauce and ruin the flavor.

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