Delicate, juicy, aromatic, nourishing - all this is about Italian lasagna. How delicious it sounds! It is doubly nice that it’s inexpensive to cook lasagna with chicken and mushrooms with your own hands.
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Simple lasagna with chicken and mushrooms
Mushrooms will give their original flavor, giving a contrast to the creamy base. And what a fragrance from them! We also buy special sheet pasta and ingredients for the sauce.
A simple Lasagna recipe involves the use of the following list of products:
- champignons, minced chicken and cheese - 300 g each;
- a little premium flour (only 50 g will be used)
- milk - 500 ml;
- butter - 100 g;
- nutmeg (look in the spice department) - 20 g.
Where's the onions and Italian herbs? We will not add them in order to avoid a harsh taste.
Lasagna sheets are different. Some need to be pre-boiled, some not. Look for the mark on the packaging.
Next, cook like this:
- Finely chop chicken and mushrooms, fry immediately together so that their juices mix. Solim.
- In a separate container, mix the butter, milk, flour, nutmeg. We heat the mixture, but do not bring to a boil.
- We form lasagna. You need to lay out a few thin layers, how much will fit. The sequence is as follows: sheets - chicken and mushroom stuffing - grated cheese. And so several times. At the end, fill the "construction" with sauce.
- Cover it with sheets from above and finally sprinkle with cheese. It will provide a beautiful appearance.
- Lasagna reaches readiness in the oven in 20 minutes at 200 ºС on the middle tier.
Whip up lavash
Lavash is easier to find than flat sheet paste. Usually 4 sheets in one package - just what we need. The role of sauce will play sour cream.
More materials:pita lasagna - recipe
Lavash lasagna products will need very little:
- sour cream - 400 ml;
- pita - 1 package;
- minced meat - 500 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- hard cheese - 400 g;
- salt pepper.
For red meat we take black pepper, for chicken or turkey - white.
Deal with the ingredients? Then proceed:
- First of all, fry the onion and minced meat with the addition of salt and pepper.
- At the same time, grind the cheese.
- At the bottom of the form we put a sheet of pita bread, grease it with sour cream. Next will be minced meat, then cheese. Thus, we form 3 layers.
- On the last sheet we do not spread the mince, just sprinkle it with cheese.
- Bring to readiness in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Minced meat take chicken, from turkey or tender red meat (veal, pork) - they are better combined with cheese than beef.
With cream sauce
Sometimes you want to diversify the usual dish a bit at the expense of the sauce, not too departing from the basic recipe.
Recall the list of ingredients:
- 300 g of ground meat (turkey, chicken, in extreme cases, pork);
- one onion;
- salt, pepper, Italian spices (ready-made mixture or basil, oregano);
- and, of course, a few sheets of lasagna.
The change is that the cheese will go not into the layer, but into the sauce.
Cream sauce will be as follows:
- 180 g butter (margarine is not suitable);
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- 40 g flour;
- half a glass of milk;
- a small pinch of salt and nutmeg.
We’ll go over the basic part of the recipe:
- Sauté the minced meat with onion, salt, pepper, add spices. It takes 5 minutes.
- Lay out layers in a baking dish, alternating sheets of lasagna and minced meat.
- The sauce is needed hot, cook it last. Melt butter in a saucepan, add flour, pour in milk. Heat the mixture so that the cheese melts in it. Do not go far from the stove, it will happen quickly. Then salt the composition, add the nutmeg and pour this “broth” lasagna.
- Almost everything is ready. It remains to suffer 20 minutes, while the dish is baked. Temperature - 180 ºС.
Pancake lasagna with chicken and mushrooms
There are not always pasta sheets in our stores, it’s difficult to make them manually from a habit, but we are familiar with pancakes. Therefore, you can experiment with the preparation of lasagna from pancakes.
We make the filling of:
- minced chicken - 400 g;
- mushrooms - 200 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- sour cream - 5 tbsp. l .;
- You will also need salt, pepper.
Prepare pancakes according to your favorite recipe, and the filling and assembly technology of the dish can be seen here:
- First, fry the onion until golden, then add the finely chopped mushrooms to it. After a couple of minutes, add minced meat, salt, pepper. Fry for 5 minutes
- Add sour cream, mix, turn off the heat. Keep the composition under the closed lid for another 5 minutes.
- We collect multilayer lasagna, alternating pancakes and minced meat. For beauty, you can trim the edges to give the dish a rectangular shape.
- In addition, you do not need to bake anything, you can immediately start the meal. If necessary, heat lasagna in a microwave or oven.
With fresh tomatoes
Want classic lasagna? Then use Ricotta, Mozzarella or Parmesan cheese for the sauce. And, of course, juicy cherry with basil - without them in Italian cuisine anywhere.
Also can not do without:
- minced meat - 400 g;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- half a pack of lasagna sheets.
The sauce for this version of lasagna will go more cheese. It is prepared from:
- half a packet of butter;
- 40 g flour;
- half a glass of milk;
- 200 g of grated cheese;
- 10 g nutmeg.
Still needed, take a pinch of salt in minced meat and sauce.
The appetite has already broken out, rather proceed:
- It is important to chop the onion finely so that the dish is tender. Large pieces coarsen both the look and the taste. Fry the vegetable with minced meat, salt.
- Lay out sheets of dough and minced meat.
- We switch to the sauce: put the saucepan on a slow fire, first spread only the butter. Once it melts, pour milk. After 1 - 2 minutes, add the flour. Pour the nutmeg last.Ready sauce in consistency resembles batter. Water them with lasagna.
- Keep the dish in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
It is interesting:minced lasagna in the oven
In tomato sauce
Red meat is better combined with tomatoes, so take not minced chicken, as in the classic recipe, but beef. It will take about 400 g.
And also prepare:
- one onion;
- a large handful of grated cheese;
- dried Italian herbs;
- salt;
- tomato paste at the rate of 1 tbsp. l on each layer;
- half a glass of water.
The dish is being prepared, as usual:
- Minced meat with onions, salt and seasonings are fried in a pan.
- The lasagna dough is boiled for two minutes.
- Lay out the layers. First is the pasta leaf, it is smeared with tomato paste. Then they distribute the minced meat, and then the cheese. The width and height of the "structure" is adjusted relative to the capacity for baking. At the end, pour it with a little warm water - this is necessary so that the climbing is not dry.
- Bake in a preheated oven to 180 ºС for 20 minutes.
Fresh basil and oregano are not recommended. Their task is only to add flavor, and fresh leaves will give a sharp taste.
How to make do-it-yourself climbing sheets
Want to do everything with your own hands from and to? Then let's learn how to make dough for this gourmet dish. Homemade lasagna, fully prepared with your own hands, will be even tastier.
It will take patience, dexterity and very few products:
- a pound of flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 100 ml of water;
- a little salt on the tip of the knife.
What kind of oil to take? According to the canons of Italian cuisine - only olive, but sunflower will also cope with the task. All that is required of him is to give the test elasticity. But what really matters is sifting the flour.
Let's start from this:
- Pour flour through a sieve onto a work surface.
- In it, make a small funnel in which pour water, oil, eggs.
- Knead the dough until smooth.
- Cut it into several parts, each roll out as thin as possible (1 mm).
- Give the servings the correct rectangular shape by trimming the excess with a knife. Scraps can be frozen - come in handy.
- Sheets can only be dried for 2 hours, and then sent to freeze.
Before preparing the lasagna, you will need to boil the sheets for 1 to 2 minutes. So what is next? And about this you already know more than enough!
