Lasagnelasagne Milanese With No Tomato Sauce Recipes

NO TOMATO PASTA SAUCE

Steps:

• Place carrots and beets, one can at a time, into a blender and blend until smooth. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir garlic and onions until onions are translucent. Stir in pureed carrots and beets then add the bay leaf, Italian seasoning, and red wine vinegar. Cover and cook until the sauce begins to boil. Remove lid and reduce heat to low. Simmer for up to 4 hours, or at least 30 minutes.

NO-FUSS LASAGNA

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Add tomato paste, water, spaghetti sauce mix, sugar, parsley, salt, garlic powder and pepper. Simmer, partially covered, for 20 minutes. Stir occasionally. , In a bowl, combine eggs with cottage cheese, half of the cheddar cheese and half of the mozzarella. Set aside. Spoon a third of the meat sauce into a 13x9-in. baking dish. Place half of the uncooked noodles over sauce. Top with a third of meat sauce and press down. Spoon cottage cheese mixture over all. Cover with remaining noodles and meat sauce. Cover and refrigerate overnight., Bake, covered, at 350° for 1 hour. Uncover; sprinkle with remaining cheddar and mozzarella cheeses. Bake an additional 15 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting. Freeze option: After assembling, sprinkle lasagna with remaining cheddar and mozzarella cheeses. Cover and freeze unbaked lasagna. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven to 350°. Bake lasagna as directed, increasing time as necessary to heat through and for a thermometer inserted in center to read 165°.

MEXICAN LASAGNA - NO LASAGNA NOODLES!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch casserole dish.
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and stir in ground beef. Cook and stir until beef is crumbly, evenly browned, and no longer pink, about 10 minutes. Drain and discard any excess grease. Add water and taco seasoning; cook and stir until mixture has thickened, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Arrange 3 tortillas in the bottom of the casserole dish; spread about half the can of refried beans and half the ground beef atop the tortilla layer. Sprinkle 1 cup Colby-Jack cheese over ground beef layer. Arrange 3 more tortillas over the cheese. Spread in the remaining 1/2 can refried beans and half the jar of taco sauce; sprinkle with 1 cup Colby-Jack cheese. Arrange 3 more tortillas and top with remaining ground beef and 1 cup Colby-Jack cheese. Top with last 3 tortillas and remaining 1/2 jar taco sauce.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top tortilla layer begins to brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Sprinkle 1 cup Colby-Jack cheese over lasagna.
• Turn on oven's broiler.
• Place lasagna under the broiler until Colby-Jack cheese is melted and bubbling, 3 to 5 minutes.

LASAGNE.....(LASAGNE MILANESE, WITH NO TOMATO SAUCE)

Steps:

• Cook carrots,onions,celery in butter until vegetables are tender. Remove set aside. In the same skillet brown sausage and ground beef gently for 20 minutes,drain. Stir in wine,salt and pepper, then add the vegetables. Cook until wine evaporates then add tomatoes,simmer for 1 hour.
• Prepare the white sauce using butter,flour,salt, and milk. Cook in a saucepan over low heat until smooth stirring as you go and set aside.
• Cook lasagne noodles according to package. Using a ladle, add 2 ladle's scoops to the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish. Place 1/3 of the noodles on top of the first layer of sauce.Add mozzarella cheese on top noodles.
• Sprinkle Parmesan cheese. Ladle on 2 scoops of sauce,Repeat same as above. Dot with butter. bake at 425 for 35-45 minutes or until top is golden brown and bubbly.
• Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

LAZY LASAGNE WITH TOMATO-BASIL SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Cook garlic in butter in a large heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, 1 minute. Add tomatoes with purée and half of basil and simmer sauce over moderate heat, uncovered, stirring, 20 minutes. Stir in orange juice and salt and pepper to taste.
• While sauce is cooking, stir together ricotta, parmesan, remaining basil, oregano, and salt and pepper to taste. Separate won ton skins and add to a saucepan of salted boiling water, then immediately transfer with a slotted spoon to a shallow dish filled with cold water.
• Spread 1/2 cup tomato sauce evenly in bottom of a buttered 13- by 9- by 2-inch glass baking dish. Arrange 4 won ton skins, drained briefly on a kitchen towel, in 1 layer on top of sauce. Divide half of ricotta mixture evenly among squares in pan and top with 4 more squares, drained briefly. Spoon remaining ricotta mixture evenly on top of squares in pan and top with remaining 4 squares, drained.
• Spoon several tablespoons sauce over each stack and bake, uncovered, in middle of oven until bubbling and heated through, about 10 minutes.

NO WHITE-SAUCE LASAGNA/LASAGNE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large frying pan.
• Add the chopped shallots and crushed garlic, heat until the shallot is soft.
• Add the minced meat, stir thoroughly.
• Add the milk to the meat, cook the meat until it is brown all over.
• Add all the tomatoes and sugar, stir well.
• Add the herbs.
• Add some of the red wine and worcestershire sauce, stir.
• Add the mushrooms (if using), stir.
• Simmer on a low heat and let the liquid reduce.
• When the liquid has reduced add more worcestershire sauce and red wine. Simmer.
• Repeat this stirring, adding liquid, simmering and reduction process for at least two hours. The meat should end up very glossy and gloopy. It almost looks like it is one large blob rather than minced meat.
• Meanwhile, mix the grated parmesan and pepper into the creme fraiche, leave aside.
• Preheat the oven to 200°C.
• When the meat is ready add a thin layer to cover the bottom of an ovenproof dish. Add lasagne sheets, then a thicker layer of meat. Repeat - I always end up with three layers of lasagne sheets.
• On the final layer of lasgne sheets spread the creme fraiche mixture.
• Cover the creme fraiche mixture with the grated cheddar.
• Bake in the oven until golden (30-45 minutes).