Get ready to enjoy a traditional lasagna with ground beef and cheese that your family will love. This is an easy recipe you just need a little time to prepare it.
This recipe is also in Spanish: Lasaña con carne molida
I have made this recipe several times and my children love it. I usually use a regular box of lasagna noodles and that is enough for five or six people. We always paired it with Italian salad and garlic bread.
You will need: A medium pot to cook the pasta, a medium frying pan to cook the meat, and a rectangular oven-safe pan to accommodate the lasagna.
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Classic Ground Beef Lasagna
Ingredients
- 1 lb lasagna noodles
- 4 liters of water
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon of salt or chicken bouillon powder
- For the filling:
- 2 lbs of ground beef (1/2 kg)
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 2 medium cans of spaghetti sauce
- ½ cup of water or white wine
- 15 oz of ricotta or cream cheese
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup of mozzarella cheese
- 1 tablespoon of dried basil (basil) or oregano
- Salt and pepper to taste
Heat the water, add a tablespoon of oil, you can also add salt or chicken bouillon. Bring to boil and add the lasagna noodles, mixing a little just to separate them.
The boiling water should cover the pasta.
Let cook the pasta approximately 7-8 minutes or until smooth.
Meanwhile chop the onion and garlic. Separate.
After lasagna noodles are cooked, drain and separate.
Heat the oven to 375F
For the filling:
Heat a frying pan, add olive oil and fry the onion and garlic, until the onion turns clear.
Add the ground beef and fry it until brown.
Incorporate a half cup of wine or water, a can of the spaghetti sauce, basil, salt, pepper. Lower the heat and bring to a boil. Remove from the stove. Separate
Now grease a rectangular pan, add half a can of spaghetti sauce to cover the bottom.
Arrange about three pieces of lasagna noodles in the bottom of the pan. Now start making layers. Place a layer of lasagna, top with a part of the meat mixture, ricotta cheese, and parmesan cheese. Repeat layering until the pan is full.
Pour some of the remaining spaghetti sauce over the top of the lasagna.
Cover the lasagna with aluminum foil and bake it for thirty minutes.
Remove it from the oven, uncover and add some quesadilla cheese along with any other remaining cheese.
Take it again to the oven uncovered for five minutes or just until the cheese melts.
Remove it from the oven and let it rest for five minutes before serving, so that it does not fall apart.
I hope you enjoy and your family this ground beef lasagna recipe! Please leave a message if you do (or if you don’t!).
Buen Provecho!
LASAÑA CON CARNE MOLIDA
Equipo
- Oven
Ingredients
- 1 lb pasta para lasaña 1/2 kg
- 4 litros agua
- 1 cucharada aceite
- 1 cucharada sal o consomé de pollo en polvo
Para el relleno:
- 2 lbs de carne molida 1 kg
- 1 pieza cebolla mediana picada
- 2 dientes ajo picados
- 1 cucharada aceite de oliva
- 2 latas salsa para spaghetti medianas
- ½ taza agua o vino blanco
- 15 oz queso ricotta o queso crema
- ½ taza queso parmesano rallado
- 1 taza queso para quesadilllas
- 1 cucharada albahacar
- 1 cucharada sal
- 1/3 cucharada pimienta
Instructions
- Calentamos el agua (4 litros) con una cucharada de aceite, podemos agregar sal o consomé de pollo. Cuando empiece a hervir, agregamos las láminas de pasta y mezclamos un poco solo para separarlas. El agua debe de cubrir la pasta.
- Dejamos cocer aproximadamente 7-8 minutos o hasta que la pasta este suave. (Mientras puedes ir picando los vegetales que vamos a utilizar para el relleno).
- Pasado este tiempo, escurrimos y separamos.
- Calentamos el horno a 375F o 190 C.
Para el relleno.
- Calentamos un sartén, agregamos aceite de oliva y freímos la cebolla y el ajo, hasta que la cebolla quede acitronada (transparente).
- Incorporamos la carne molida y freímos.
- Agregamos la media taza de vino o agua, una lata de la salsa de spaghetti, el albahacar, sal, pimienta y bajamos el fuego, dejamos hervir. Retiramos del fuego.
- Aparte, engrasamos un refractario rectangular, agregamos la mitad de una lata de salsa de spaghetti para cubrir el fondo del molde.
- Acomodamos las láminas de lasaña, haciendo capas. Colocamos una capa de lasaña, una parte de la mezcla de carne, queso ricota queso parmesano. Repetimos hasta que terminemos con la pasta.
- Encima de la última capa, agregamos salsa de spaghetti.
- Tapamos con papel aluminio y metemos al horno por treinta minutos.
- Sacamos del horno y cubrimos con queso quesadilla y agregamos cualquier queso que haya sobrado.
- Metemos al horno sin tapar por cinco minutos o hasta que gratine o derrita el queso de encima.
- Sacamos del horno y dejamos reposar por cinco minutos antes de servir, para que no se desbarate.
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