I sometimes make lasagne at home.
I don’t make this so often, because I want Alexander to be a child who gets a healthy & varied diet, and learns not to be picky 🙂
Thats why I am an opponent of letting him live of the typical “child food”, parents give their kids every day – spaghetti bolognese & lasagne.
Now, he likes most food, and eats almost everything i make .. And he has learned to taste on things, before proclaiming that he don’t like it.
So now, I have started to make lasagne sometimes. The good thing about lasagne is, that there are almost always some leftovers, for the next day – in case we have a really busy day 😉
Well .. Of course my lasagne are filled with vegetables, so it becomes healthier.
If you have kids, who don’t want to eat green & healthy stuff, they will never find out that there are any of it in this lasagne ♥
Recipe
Yield: 4 persons (1 dish with 3 layers)
Ingredients:
- 450 grams of ground beef
- 2 cans of chopped tomatoes
- 1 small can of tomato paste (125 grams)
- 2 – 3 big carrots
- 1 zucchini
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 small red onion
- 2-3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Oliveoil
- Salt/pepper
- Fresh mozzarella cheese
- Béchamel sauce
- 1 package of (fresh) pasta sheets
How to make it:
- Grate the carrots & zucchini
- Dice the red onion
- Finley dice the garlics
- Slice the mozzarella
- Pour some oil in a pot and let it heat up
- Add the onions, and fry them, till the red onions are glossy
- Add ground beef and fry it until it is light brown
- Add tomato paste and mix it with the beef
- Add chopped tomato and the grated vegetables
- Mix it all well
- Add Balsamic vinegar & season with salt & pepper
- Let it all simmer for aprox. 30 minutes
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees
- When the meat is ready – build the lasagne
- In the dish you cover the bottom and the sides with a small amount of béchamel sauce, a bit meat and then lasagne sheets. Continue this way … meat, lots of béchamel sauce & lasagne sheets
- The last layer should be with lots of meat and béchamel sauce on the top
- Top with sliced mozzarella cheese
- Put it in the oven for 30 – 40 minutes
→ Serve with delicious bread or a fresh salad
