Earth-shatteringly Great Five Meat Lasagne
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Italian
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 1.3kg beef mince
  • 450g pork mince
  • 350g chicken liver, finely chopped
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 white onions
  • 8 rashers bacon
  • 150g chorizo
  • 1 bottle red wine
  • 1 head garlic, crushed
  • 600g tinned tomatoes or passata
  • 200g tomato purée
  • 1 tbsp dried oregano
  • 10g rosemary, finely chopped
  • 250g butter
  • 250g flour
  • 1.3L milk
  • 400g strong cheddar, grated
  • 200g Parmesan, grated
  • 500g lasagne pasta sheets (dry)
Instructions
The Ragu:
  1. In a large saucepan, fry the bacon, chorizo & onion in olive oil over a medium heat until soft.
  2. Next increase the heat a little and add the beef and pork mince and cook until browned.
  3. Add livers, wine, garlic, tomato concentrate, passata/tinned tomatoes and rosemary, and reduce the heat to a simmer.
  4. Cook for 40 minutes (or as long as you can, up to around 2 hours).
  5. Add dried oregano and season to taste.
Bechamel sauce (make while the ragu is cooking):
  1. In another medium saucepan, melt the butter over a medium-high heat.
  2. Add 'enough' flour to make a paste (in our case, around 200g-250g), stirring all the time with a wooden spoon.
  3. Once it is an even consistency, begin slowly adding milk, constantly stirring.
  4. Add parmesan (saving a handful for on top), cheddar, a little salt and 'endless black pepper'. I think this measures around 4 tablespoons.
  5. Cook until it thickens into a white sauce - it should be as thick as cold custard. This will take around 20 minutes.
Construction:
  2. Pre-heat oven to 180C.
  3. Add layer of lasagna pasta into a large (30cmx40cm) baking pan in whatever tessellated pattern pleases you best.
  4. Ladle over bechamel sauce to well cover pasta.
  5. Ladle over ragu to well cover that.
  6. Pasta, rinse, and repeat until pan is full, and then crown with remaining cheese.
  7. Cook for 30 mins or until well-browned.
Recipe by Third Breakfast at https://thirdbreakfast.com/five-meat-lasagne/