Lasagna: calories, recipe, cooking tips

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-02 16:12

Lasagna is a type of Italian pasta that has become popular all over the world. First, lasagna is easy to prepare. Secondly, this is a very satisfying and nutritious dish. Thirdly, the calorie content of lasagna allows you to include it even in diets, albeit with a few reservations. Now about everything in order.

We will need

Lasagna is a layered noodle casserole with sauces: bolognese (meat) and bechamel (creamy). To prepare six servings of this dish, you will need the following set of products:

• dry lasagne sheets (8-10 pieces);
• 500 grams ground beef;
• five ripe tomatoes (or 400 grams of tomatoes in their own juice);
• one hundred milliliters of dry white wine;
• 150 grams of soft cheese;
• two onions;
• two cloves of garlic;
• basil greens;
• 800 milliliters of milk;
• 100 grams of butter;
• 100 grams of flour;
• nutmeg, s alt, ground black pepper.

Let's get startedcooking

Preparing lasagna is quite simple, but still a bit long. It takes even more time to prepare all the ingredients of the dish than directly baking in the oven.

First you need to prepare the bolognese sauce. To do this, finely chop the onion and fry it in butter for several minutes until it becomes transparent with a golden tint. A minute before the onion is ready, you need to add finely chopped garlic, then remove it all from the heat.

In another pan, you need to start frying the ground beef without oil. Some use it along with pork, but this makes the dish even fatter. This means that the calorie content of lasagna increases dramatically. When the meat begins to darken, you need to add onion and garlic to it along with the oil in which they were fried. Then mix thoroughly and fry over medium heat until tender.

When the aroma from minced meat with vegetables fills the entire kitchen, you need to add tomatoes to the meat.

If you use tomatoes in their own juice, then you need to remove the skin from them and pass through a blender. If fresh, then they need to be blanched, and only then pureed.

After a few minutes, pour wine into the minced meat, mix, cover and simmer for 20-30 minutes over low heat. At the end, add finely chopped basil or parsley - whatever you like.

While the minced meat reaches the condition, let's get on with the bechamel sauce. To do this, melt 80 grams of butter in a saucepan, where you gradually introduce flour, constantly stirring the mixture. Then gently pour in half of the milk.(cold) and bring to a homogeneous consistency. Then add the rest of the milk.

At the end, add s alt, pepper and nutmeg on the tip of a knife. No need to boil the sauce.

Boil the lasagna sheets until half cooked and remove from the water. We dry them with paper towels and proceed to laying out the lasagna in a mold. We coat the bottom with bechamel sauce, then put the dough, then the filling, again the creamy sauce and again the lasagna sheet. Keep doing this until you run out of ingredients. The final layer should be sheets smeared with bechamel. Sprinkle them with grated cheese and send them to the oven for 40 minutes, until golden brown. Please note that lasagna should be served slightly chilled. A hot dish will not be cut into portions.

Memo to those who are on a diet

To lower the calorie content of lasagna, you can use a little less bechamel.

The trick with minced meat is mentioned above. Also, sometimes the filling is replaced with a less fatty one - chicken is mixed with vegetables and mushrooms, it turns out even tastier. Lasagna with minced poultry is also significantly lower in calories.

Bechamel can also be replaced. For example, by mixing low-fat sour cream with kefir and garlic. This will help reduce the calorie content of the lasagna.

If there are two or three layers of the dish, then the energy value of one serving will become more modest.

Lasagna calories and energy value of the classic recipe:

• calories - 200;
• proteins - 10 g;
• fats - 7g;
• carbohydrates - 17g;

_{approximate energy value and calorie content of lasagna per 100 grams.}