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Super Express Lasagne

10/18/2018

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Mary Berry's express lasagne is one of our favourite recipes
This delicious lasagne recipe is by Mary Berry, a British food writer and television presenter. She's an old school family cook and many of her recipes are ingenious time savers - like this one. It's the perfect dish when you fancy a sumptuous and satisfying lasagne but not the palaver of making sauces. This recipe cuts corners cleverly but is still home cooking made from scratch - just super quick - guaranteed half the prep time of a normal lasagne! The flavour combinations are also genius - it's really quite scrumptious. 
Ingredients 
  • Pork mince - about 500 - 800g 
  • Flour - 2 tbsp 
  • Mushrooms - however many you fancy - sliced 
  • Garlic ​- crushed 
  • Sour cream or creme fraiche ​
  • Spinach 
  • Sage ​

  • ​Passata or tinned tomatoes, crushed 
  • Sundried tomato paste or ordinary tomato paste 
  • Sugar - 1tsp, muscovado if you have it 
  • Thyme - some sprigs 
  • Lasagne sheets 
  • Grated cheese - cheddar and Parmesan or similar 
  • Sesame seeds (optional) 

Cooking - meat sauce first 
Cook the pork mince in a saucepan, stirring constantly to break up and cook evenly. 
Add flour and stir through, cook on for a minute. 
​Add  the mushrooms and garlic, stir through.
Add the sour cream, spinach and sage, stir through gently. 
Season to taste and remove from the heat. 

Prep the tomato sauce next 
​Mix the passata or tinned tomatoes, sun dried tomato paste, sugar and thyme - whizzing them with a hand mixer gives a nice smooth consistency.  

Assembly and Cooking 
Mary Berry soaks her lasagne sheets in water for a few minutes before assembling. You have to get this right - too much soaking and they fall apart. It does make them nice and soft though. 

The choice is yours: start with a layer of meat mix OR grease the lasagne dish and start with a layer of pasta sheets. 
Whatever, add a layer of meat mix and then a few blobs of the tomato mix. Cover with lasagne sheets. Repeat. 

End with a layer of meat - it can have gaps in it. Top it with cheese, and I like to add a hearty scattering of sesame seeds, which brown up nicely and add a light crunch. 

Cook for 30 to 35 minutes at 180 degrees, serve with veg such as kale, broccoli or cauliflower, and enjoy! 
1 Comment
Terry
10/19/2018 08:04:04 am

Am going to try this out on the boys and then -hopefully- teach them to make it! Thanks Fiona

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