Monday, July 03, 2006

Lasagne

This is one of our favourites!

Serves 4

Ingredients:
1. Lean mince - approx 600g
2. Store bought (or homemade if you're feeling energetic) pasta sauce. It doesn't matter which one, but we like anything 5 Brothers the most.
3. 1 Onion - finely chopped
4. 2 cloves Garlic - finely chopped
5. Grated cheese - approx 250g
6. Sour cream - medium sized tub
7. Grated Parmesan cheese

Method:
1. Pre heat oven to 200 degrees.
2. Grease lasagne or casserole dish
3. Sauté the onion in a large frying pan with little olive oil
4. Add the mince and brown.
5. Once mince is done add the pasta sauce and let simmer as per the instructions on the jar.
6. Layer the lasagne dish with mince, then a lasagne sheet, spread a layer of sour cream over the lasagne sheet (as much or as little as you like, I like to be heavy handed with it) sprinkle the cheeses and repeat the process until your dish is full, or you've run out of mince!
7. Make sure you have a lasagne sheet as you're top layer, and cover with the sour cream and cheeses.
8. Bake in the oven for approximately half an hour, or until golden brown.
9. Leave to stand for about 5-10 minutes if you've got time - makes it a little easier to serve.

The leftovers freeze really well and as with most tomato based pasta dishes, it tastes even better the next day.

Optional extra - a layer of baby spinach leaves after the mince layers tastes good too.

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