Luigi’s Lasagna Al Forno Recipe

Luigi’s Lasagna Al Forno Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 chopped onion
1 celery stalk; sliced thinly
1/4 c oil (olive)
Pepper
Sugar1/2 c of wine (red)
Salt
2 c of milk
1/2 tsp of pepper (white)
3/4 pound of lasagna sheets
1/4-1/3 lbs of thinly-sliced cheese (Mozzarella)
15 ounces of cheese (Ricotta)
4 Tbsps of flour (all-purpose)
Nutmeg
1/2 tsp of salt
4 Tbsps of butter (unsalted)
Redpepper flakes
2 cans of tomatoes (plum, 28 oz each); drained
4 garlic cloves; sliced
1 peeled carrot; sliced thinly

Instructions:

For the sauce: You saute carrot, onions, garlic & celery in oil ’til all are golden. You add tomatoes, then mash them once added. Allow mixture to boil. Simmer it over low-heat w/o cover for 60 mins.

You then add pepper, salt, flaked pepper & sugar. Continue cooking for 30 more mins w/ cover. Twenty minutes before cooking is done, you add red wine.
For your bechamel sauce: Have milk simmered in saucepan. You melt butter separately then add into flour. Then cook butter-flour mixture for 2 mins. Remove saucepan from heat then pour in heated milk, whisk constantly while adding.

Put saucepan back to fire then cook at low-heat, whisk often for 5-10 mins or ’til sauce achieves a medium-thick consistency. Add nutmeg, pepper & salt.
You cook your lasagna sheets in boiling salted water w/ some oil ’til al-dente then drain.

Spoon some tomato-sauce into 9×13-inch bake dish enough to have pan’s bottom covered. Top w/ lasagna layer then w/ tomato-sauce again.
Pour over 1/3 of ricotta then 1/3 of bechamel-sauce. Have it covered w/ tomato-sauce layer then 1/3 ricotta & 1/3 of bechamel-sauce. Repeat layers ending w/ slices of Mozzarella.

Have lasagna baked at 375 degrees F for half an hour. Remove bake pan from oven then sprinkle w/ some Parmesan as desired.

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