Simple Lasagna - From my Mum's kitchen

   
Wee, semester break for my Semester 2 nearly finish. But today I got the chance to update my blog as a first post for Year 2013. Happy New Year everyone, I hope it's not that late to wish all of you. So, for today's post I'm going to post a recipe - Should I say my secret recipe learnt from my mum :)

Well, I love to modify any recipe that I found. Heh my habits when it comes to cooking xD
Okay people, as I said it before it is easy but needs a lot of patience.

" I'm just someone who loves to cook, not a perfect one like Anna Olson. "

To make a lasagna, you need one or two packets of minced meat. But I would suggest you in order to make a good lasagna, you can buy minced meat in the supermarket on the day you want to cook it. It's like fresh, so it will taste different from the one you have been keeping in the fridge.

Now, after you taking out the minced meat out of its plastic, make sure you washed under running tap, not 100% clean from the blood, just wash it like that. 50-50

Put the meat aside. Be creative when you cook, find something that could combine just nice with the meat, like potatoes? Peel 3-4 potatoes and cut it alike wedges-cut. As thinner as possible.

Back to the minced meat, that is left aside.Set up a frying pan with hot heated-up oil. I would prefer vegetable oil. And then pour inside the minced meat, let it boiled.

So, to be a good cook, you must do two things in one time. *chuckles. Back to the potatoes.

As you can see, I set the potatoes are boiling with herbs. This is one of my Mum's secret recipe. But I would recommend you to plant your own herbs plant like my mum did. She planted Basil, Rosemary and Mints.

So, in my case. I love to use Master Foods product. This product quite popular so don't worry, you could find it in any super market.

 Keeps on waiting for your meat to completely boiled, keeps on stirring it until turns like this one.

How to make sure of it is complete boiled? There, you can see oil on the surface of the minced meat.

And don't forget about the potatoes, make sure it is boiled too as it become soft as if we're going make mashed potatoes.

 Then back to the meat. Once it becomes like the picture above, pour in pasta sauce that you love. For me, I use Prego, Tomato Basil Garlic.

One may asks me: ' How much pasta sauce that you're going to put in? '

Well, to me, quantity of the pasta sauce is ideal blend nicely with the amount of the meat. Just add one-bit-to-one bit until you feels it is perfect enough. And don't forget to taste it, is it enough tasty or should be added more salt or something. Like this one, below. The one already half-way cook.

And need to remind, don't put too much oil. Not good for health though it is the most quality healthy oil you ever had. So this one, already half-way cook. And I did remove excess oils from this one 'cause it can give bad appearance to your lasagna.

Ahah, this minced meat already cook. Nice one isn't it?

 Get-yourself-ready, now we have come to next step, quite significant in making a lasagna. 

This, where we're going to cook the lasagna. Spread any butter or I prefer, margarine. Spread it all over  like this. Don't too much and too less, just nice.

In the meanwhile, prepare a boiling water to boil a lasagna skin. Or known as lasagna's layers.

 For the the lasagna's layers, you may use any product brand, anything will do 'cause I can't recommend which one is the best. As for my mum, she use this one. 

Teehee, don't cook overlapping like this. Just do the boiling of these skin one-by-one.

 Okay, we have come to step of layering the lasagna. To me, every layer has different ingredient inside it. Not like common lasagna you would see that everyone does. It's just for fun though. No offense to anybody. 

The G-level -- Should I say underground level? lol I put the skin as the base then layer by the minced meat.

Okay, these two are important ingredients in layering the lasagna -- Prego, Cheese & Herbs and also Cheese ( don't worry, it is a Halal product and it is not syubhah foods) . I'll tell you later, how I am going to put these into the lasagna.

This is still on the G-Level, it is just I added Prego, Cheese & Herbs sauce on it.

Then, I layer it off with minced meat, make it as packed as possible by pressing it by using spoon.

Okay, this one. I grate some cheese and sprinkle it all over the meat just now.

Then, I overlapping all the cooked-potatoes and sprinkle it back with grated cheese.

Before I cover it with meat, I layer in a lasagna's skin. Then I layer it off with meat (which is the one you see right now). 

There, I layer-in a layer of the lasagna skin.

Last step. Cover up the whole lasagna with the rest amount of Prego, Cheese & Herbs sauce.

 Then, to add the attractiveness to your lasagna, sprinkle these Parsley flakes on top of your lasagna.

Remember this last step: Cover them up with aluminium foil before bake your lasagna in the oven. The most high temperature should be kept is 250 degree Celcius and heat must be from up and down, so that even heating could be achieved. Time needed to cook is accurately just 45 mins. But it depends actually.

 Don't worry much. Keeps on baking your lasagna in the oven until it achieved like this one.
 

A perfect lasagna -- to my eyes.

 All the best trying this recipe of lasagna.

[  p/s: I used the spaghetti pasta to tie lasagna up, it may look a bit creative. All credits to my mum's teaching. ]