^ sounds lovely! Really, might try that after my next shop!
I looked at the list and I can't believe Lasagne isn't added! :O now, people may be thinking 'omg it's so hard to make' shh. It really isn't!
Ingredients:
Regular packet of beef mince
dolmio lasagne sauce
dolmio white lasagne sauce
dry lasagne sheets
grated cheese
Any veg you want to add (I usually add mushrooms and carrots!)
Some oil (really just a TINY bit of oil) for the frying
The amount of ingredients you use really does depend on what you like.
Utensils needed
Knife for veg (if adding any veg)
1 large frying pan
1 pot/small pan for veg
1 oven-proof dish
Chopping board (for veg if adding)
Wooden spoon for serving
Method without veg
First add a tablespoon of oil to a pan on a medium-high heat
Add the mince beef to the pan and keep stirring until brown
Once mince is brown, add the red lasagne sauce and stir until all the mince is covered
With your oven-proof dish, add roughly a third of the mince & sauce and spread it over.
Take your lasagne sheets and make sure all the mince & sauce is covered. You can break the sheets if you need to.
Again, use another third of the mince & sauce and spread over.
Repeat with the lasagne sheets then take your white sauce and use half of the white lasagne sauce and spread this over the lasagne sheets.
Put the remainder of the meat & sauce mixture over the white sauce.
With the other half of the white sauce, pour this over the meat and then with the grated cheese, sprinkle this over the top. Make sure it is covered with cheese.
Then put the oven-proof dish into the oven at a high temperature/setting.
Leave for roughly half an hour then come back and test it. To do this, put a knife or a fork in the middle. If you can hear the sheets crunching, it is not ready. The sign that the lasagne is ready is when you put the fork/knife through the middle, it should go all the way to the bottom with ease.
This can be frozen so you will have a lovely home-made lasagne for weeks! Usually gives you about 4 servings depending on the size of the dish/amount of ingredients you are using!
Method with veg:
Brown the mince as above then take off the heat. Add a tablespoon of oil to the pot/small pan and set aside.
No matter what veg you are using, you don't want chunks in lasagne. For mushrooms, I usually give them a wash, take of the stalk and then slice the mushroom. For carrots, I'd give it a wash and then grate the carrots.
About half an inch is roughly the size you're wanting for the veg.
Add these to the small pan/pot (leave the carrots if you're grating them) and cook for roughly 5-6 minutes.
Once cooked, add the veg to the brown mince and give it a good mixing. Then add the red lasagne sauce and mix it well. Continue as above.
Obviously you can change things a little. You can have this vegetarian by only adding vegetables. You can have a chicken lasagne by cutting chicken breasts about half inch pieces and continue the same as above. This is a great dish if you're wanting to impress or if you want a dish to give you more than one meal out of! Enjoy!