Lasagne

Last night I made lasagne for the first time ever and I was extremely impressed with the results! It turned out to be an easy, cheap and tasty meal and even my boyfriend ate it without moaning… This is the recipe I followed. It is syn free on Extra Easy and contains two healthy extra A allowances.

Ingredients -- serves 6:

1 small pack of extra lean minced beef;
2 tins of chopped tomatoes;
2 tins of mushrooms;
2 medium onions;
1 box of lasagne sheets;
1 pack of quark;
90g of light mild chedder cheese (2 x healthy extra A allowance);
3 tablespoons of natural yogurt;
1 egg;
Salt;
Pepper;
2 garlic cloves;
Mixed herbs.

Method:

1) Lightly fry the garlic cloves, mixed herbs, salt, pepper, onion and beef, until the meat is brown. Then add the tomatoes and mushrooms and allow the mixture to simmer.

2) In a separate pan, add the quark, 45g of the chedder cheese, natural yogurt, salt, pepper and an egg and blend until smooth. Then lightly warm the mixture in a pan.

3) Layer the lasagne in the following way:

Add red sauce and a layer of pasta sheets --

Add the white sauce:

Add another layer of pasta sheets and top with red sauce:

4) cover the lasagne in foil and cook at gas mark 6 for 35 minutes.

5) Take the foil off, add the remaining cheese (45g) onto the top of the lasagne and allow to cook for a further 10 minutes.

This is what the lasagne looked like after we had eaten three potions (I forgot to take a picture when I first removed it from the oven).

Overall, I was very impressed with this recipe. The lasagne was really tasty and the white sauce was more cheesy then I thought it would be. I also worked out that this recipe cost me less than £1.50 per portion, which I think is pretty good value.

I definitely recommend you give this one a go. I might make another one next week and use beans instead of mince meat. This will make this recipe even cheaper and it will also be free on a green day.