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Making Bolognese Sauce for Lasagna

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Making Bolognese Sauce for Lasagna

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Making Bolognese Sauce for Lasagna

Ingredients

Pasta:
2 lbs of All-purpose Flour
10 Eggs
A pinch of Salt
Extra virgin olive oil

 

Bechamel Sauce:
1 quart of Milk
4 ounces of Butter
4 ounces of Flour

 

Bolognese Sauce:
2-2 1/2 pounds of Ground beef
Tomatoes
1/2 a Carrot
1/2 an Onion
Celery
Cloves of Garlic
Extra virgin olive oil
Glass of Red Wine
Rosemary
Sage

Instructions

1. Pour flour on work space. Make a whole in the middle and put eggs, salt, and olive oil in it. Work the dough until it is smooth.


2. Cut a piece of dough and use a pasta rolling machine or rolling pin to flatten the dough into thin sheets.


3. Place the pasta sheets into a tray with parchment paper underneath and some Semolina flour to prevent the dough from sticking to the pan.


4. To make the Bolognese sauce, put half an onion, celery, half a carrot and a couple of cloves of garlic into a food processor to chop them finely.


5. Pour some extra virgin olive oil into a pot, warm it up a little bit. Pour all of the vegetables inside the pot, start stirring and fry the vegetables for a couple of minutes.


6. Add the ground beef to the pot, cook until it is browned. Pour a glass of red wine into the pot and let it evaporate. Pour in peeled tomatoes.


7. Let the sauce simmer for an hour to an hour and a hlaf then add salt and pepper.


8.  To make the bechamel sauce, start boiling the milk in one pot and the butter in another. Add salt, pepper and a bit of nutmeg to the milk.


9. When the butter has melted, pour the flour in and let it cook for a couple of minutes.


10. When the milk starts boiling, add it to the flour and butter. Use a whisk to mix them together.


11. Boil water with a little salt and oil and place the pasta sheets in it. Cook the pasta for several mintues and then remove them and cool them down with ice water. Strain the pasta into a colander.


12. Start to layer the lasagna by putting bolognese sauce on the bottom, followed by a layer of pasta then bechamel and bolognese mixed together with some parmesan cheese. Repeat this several more times and finish with a bolognese and bechamel topping.

 

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Davide Megna: Hello, I am Davide Megna from Amici Miei Ristorante in Rockville, Maryland. Today I am showing you how to make Lasagna and right now we are going to prepare out Bolognese sauce. We start with chopping half of a big onion, I like to chop it in big pieces, some celery, some carrot about half of carrot and a couple of cloves of garlic, fresh garlic. We are going to put all these vegetables inside a food processor and we are going to leave the processor on until we obtain a fine chopped vegetables. I am going to remove the vegetable from the side of the bowl, so that everything gets chopped the same way.

Okay, now we have chopped our vegetables and then I am going to make a little bunch of sage and rosemary. I am going to tie it altogether with a regular twine. Okay, now we have our bunch of herbs, we are going to turn our pot on for cooking our sauce. I am going to pour some extra virgin olive oil into the pot, make it warm up a little bit. Okay we are pouring all of our vegetables inside the pot, start stirring a little bit and fry the vegetables for a couple of minutes. After that we are going to add our ground beef for the Bolognese, I choose ground beef, that is, with a percentage of 80% and 20%, we use about two pounds of ground beef, to two pounds and a half ground beef.

I am going to let it cook it until it gets brown. And now that we have finally browned our meat, we are going to pour a glass of red wine, we can use any table red wine. We are going to let it evaporate. Okay, once the red wine is completely evaporated we are going to add our bunch of herbs and we are going to pour in and cover with Italian peeled tomatoes. And after that we are going to let it simmer for about an hour to an hour-and-a-half and then after we simmer for an hour, an hour-and-a-half, we are going to add salt and pepper to our sauce and then it will be ready for making our Lasagna and that is how you make a Bolognese sauce. Next I am going to show you how to make Bchamel sauce for lasagna.

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