Lasagna ... This dish is not only loved by the popular singer Natalia Oreiro, but also incredibly tasty. There can be a great many recipes and variations; each country adds something of its own to the cooking method. We will describe some of them.
Waiting for guests or preparing a hearty dinner?
In any case, you will be helped out by climbing with mushrooms or with another equally tasty filling. This is a very satisfying dish, so your guests certainly will not leave hungry. The most important thing for cooking is sheets from a special dough, similar to pasta, and the presence of an oven. You can come up with any filling - hot with red pepper or tender with cream, meat or vegetarian, as well as sweet.
For meat lovers
Are your guests mostly from the stronger sex? Then let's find out how to cook simple and delicious lasagna with mushrooms and minced meat. Such a fragrant dish of Italian cuisine certainly will not leave anyone indifferent.
You will need champignons, onions, lasagna leaves, a pound of tomatoes, a few cloves of garlic, 300 grams of minced meat (beef or pork), dried oregano, 1 tablespoon of tomato paste, hard cheese, salt and black pepper. To make the sauce, take some butter, 50 grams of flour, half a liter of milk, Parmesan cheese and salt.
Now we will learn how to cook lasagna with mushrooms and minced meat. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil. Lay out the first sheet of lasagna. In a heated pan, put the previously thawed minced meat, later add the mushrooms, diced, tomato paste and tomatoes. In another pan, fry the garlic and onions, add pepper and salt. Put the minced meat on the top layer, cover with a leaf on top, then put the onion with garlic and cover the leaf again. We prepare bechamel sauce: melt the butter in a pan, then put the flour, which absorbs it into itself. Reduce heat and pour out milk. Stir so that there are no lumps left until thickened, add oregano. Pour lasagna, sprinkle with parmesan top. Now put the dish in the oven for 1 hour.
Mushroom Filling with Chicken
Lasagna with mushrooms and chicken is prepared similarly to meat, but there are some nuances. It will take a pound of chicken fillet, a pound of champignons, onions, lasagna sheets, a pound of cheese, 200 grams of liquid sour cream, a liter of milk, 5 tablespoons of flour, butter, vegetable oil, salt, spices.
Lasagna with mushrooms and chicken is prepared as follows: boil the chicken for half an hour. Finely chop the onion and fry until brown in a very hot pan. Pour mushrooms into cubes and simmer until excess liquid evaporates. Cut the boiled fillet into small pieces, add to the onion and mushrooms. Simmer no more than 5 minutes. Prepare bechamel sauce as described in the previous recipe. Lubricate the mold so that the lasagna does not stick. Lay out the sheets. Put 1/3 of the toppings on top, sprinkle with cheese and fill with sauce (a little). So alternate sheets, toppings, cheese and sauce. Put in the oven for 40 minutes, but before that, heat it to 180 degrees. Lasagna is ready when you notice a golden crust on top.
Aromatic mushroom lasagna
In order for the aroma of this dish to be more saturated, and the taste to be refined, choose not mushrooms, but porcini mushrooms. They are much tastier! And the sheets can be prepared independently.
You will need 1 chicken egg, flour, water, salt and 1 tablespoon of squeezed lemon juice for the test. For the filling, take porcini mushrooms and onions - a win-win combination! Sauce: flour, butter, sour cream, milk, white pepper, salt, grated nutmeg.
How to cook lasagna with mushrooms? The dough must be kneaded to a steep state. Prepare the filling. To do this, fry the onion half rings, pour the mushrooms cut into cubes, fry the filling until light golden color. For the sauce, fry flour in butter, add sour cream and then mix everything well until the lumps disappear. Add pepper, salt and grated nutmeg to taste. Divide the dough into 5 pieces and roll each thinly with a rolling pin. In the greased form, put the first sheet of dough, on it a filling of fried mushrooms and onions, then sauce and cheese. And so lay out all five sheets with the filling, do not forget to pour the sauce and sprinkle with cheese on top. Sent to the oven until ready.
For lovers of piquancy - ham or smoked meats
Lasagna with mushrooms and ham tastes more interesting, as it has a different flavor. You can replace the ham with slices of smoked sausage.
You will need 12 sheets for lasagna, a pound of mushrooms (any), a pound of ham, 7 tomatoes, an onion head, 100 grams of leek, a clove of garlic, parsley, 200 grams of hard cheese, salt, spices (for example, a mixture of Italian herbs), olive butter, a liter of milk, flour, butter.
How to cook? Heat olive oil in a pan, lightly fry the onion, sliced in half rings, and garlic. Add diced tomatoes, leeks and greens. Stew until thick. Now you can add mushrooms. Extinguish until liquid evaporates so that the mixture remains thick. Salt and pepper, add Italian herbs. Make bechamel sauce as described above. Fold the diced ham or sausage into a separate bowl. Place the lasagna sheets in a greased refractory bowl. Next, put half of the vegetable filling and half of the ham. Pour sauce, grate cheese on top. So alternate the sheets and the filling. The top layer, covered with a sheet, should be sprinkled with cheese. Bake for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.
With pieces of meat
Many will like this hearty lasagna with meat and mushrooms. Here is a filling with a more pronounced taste than the one in which the stuffing is present. Bechamel sauce is replaced with tomato.
You will need carrots, pork, hard cheese, salt, mushrooms, lasagna sheets, sugar, onions and tomato paste.
Cooking technology: cut the pork into pieces and chop in a food processor. Grate the carrots so that you get a medium-sized straw, cut the onions into rings, and the mushrooms into cubes. Salt the pork and mix with chopped vegetables. Dilute the tomato paste with hot water, add sugar and salt. The consistency should resemble tomato juice. Pour a little sauce to the bottom and lay the lasagna sheets tightly together. On top cover them with the filling, then again the sheet and the filling again. Pour in tomato sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake for half an hour in the oven at 200 degrees. Lasagna can be served, previously cut into portions.
Replace sheets with pita
If suddenly there were no sheets at hand, and the guests on the doorstep - buy pita bread at a nearby store. Pita lasagna with mushrooms and shrimp is tasty in its own way, and it is even easier to cook!
What do you need? Champignon mushrooms, 1 pita, shrimp, cream, cheese and seasoning for seafood.
How to cook? Lay out the pita bread, put the mushrooms on it, on top - a layer of shrimp, generously cover with a layer of grated cheese, sprinkle with seasoning for seafood. Add fat cream. Place in the oven until a delicious crust forms.
Vegetarian Lasagna
For vegetarians, you can use the usual lasagna recipe with mushrooms, but try to diversify it not only with other products, but also cook without an oven.
You will need: olive oil, flour, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, salt, red pepper, lasagna leaves, mushrooms, avocado, cucumbers, olives, bell pepper, butter and cheese.
Let's make tomato sauce. To do this, fry flour and garlic in olive oil, add the tomatoes chopped in a blender, pour tomato paste, previously diluted with water and salt and red pepper. Boil over low heat until thickened. Boil the lasagna sheets. Cut cucumbers, avocados, mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, olives and onions into small pieces. Melt the butter in a pan. Put the first sheet, the filling on top, then the grated cheese and sauce - and so on until the sheets run out. Cover the pan and let stand for 5 minutes.
With spinach
Everyone will certainly enjoy the mushroom lasagna. A recipe with a photo will simplify cooking even further. Adding spinach to the dish will add freshness and juiciness, and pine nuts and goat cheese - an incredible sophistication of taste.
You will need a liter of milk, sheets for lasagna, instant thickener Maizena, a pound of frozen chopped spinach, 100 grams of goat cheese, some pine nuts, hard cheese, black pepper and salt.
Cooking technology: let the milk boil and add 2 tablespoons of thickener. Make a mixture of milk and spinach, pepper and salt. Pour some spinach sauce into the ceramic bowl and place the first sheet of lasagna. Alternate layers until the sheets run out, just remember to add a little grated cheese and nuts to each layer of the filling. Sprinkle with hard cheese and put in the oven for an hour at a temperature of 170 degrees.
Filling with cheese, broccoli and mushrooms
Lasagna with mushrooms and cheese is already a classic. And if you add broccoli, it will turn out very unusual.
You need to take sheets for lasagna, 700 grams of broccoli, butter, 2 large onions, garlic powder, salt, dried basil, mushrooms, white pepper, feta cheese, vegetable oil, 3 cups of milk, nutmeg, hard cheese.
How to cook? Cut onions and mushrooms, fry in vegetable oil. Disassemble broccoli for inflorescences and boil in salted water. Then mix it with spices and onions. Make bechamel sauce as described above. Lubricate the mold, pour a little sauce, put the first sheet, then the filling. Alternate toppings with grated feta cheese and sauce. Garnish with grated hard cheese on top and cover with foil. Bake for 40 minutes at 200 degrees.
Mexican Hot Climbing
It can be cooked like regular lasagna with mushrooms, only with the addition of hot pepper in a decent amount. Add zucchini and red wine, and instead of sheets we will use lumaconi.
You will need lumaconi, olive oil, onions, cheese, minced beef, dry red wine, carrots, tomato paste, ground chili, salt, milk, flour, butter.
Cooking technology: Heat a frying pan with olive oil, add diced carrots and onions, then minced meat and tomato paste. Salt everything, season with spices and fry. After this, pour a little water and wine, simmer until the meat is ready. Make bechamel sauce (as described earlier). Boil lumaconi in salted water until ready. Put them in a pre-greased form, fill each one with the filling. Pour over the sauce and sprinkle with cheese. Only half an hour is enough in the oven, and the bright Mexican-style dish is ready!
Sweet apple lasagna for kids!
Is mushroom lasagna trivial? Try the sweet counterpart. Kids will come in indescribable delight!
Ingredients: a pound of apples, sour cream, lasagna sheets, soft curd cheese, ground cinnamon, 2 eggs, 100 grams of butter and sugar.
How to cook apple lasagna? Boil the lasagna in boiling water. Wash the apples and cut into medium sized slices. Fry them in a pan with pre-melted butter. Curd cheese needs to be grated. Beat eggs with cinnamon and sugar. This mixture must be added to the grated cheese. Now mix everything until smooth. Put apple slices in the resulting mixture and mix everything thoroughly again. Take heat-resistant dishes. Lubricate the bottom and lay out the first sheet of lasagna, spread the filling on top, then the next sheet and again the filling. The last sheet needs to be greased with sour cream on top. Bake for half an hour in a preheated oven, and sprinkle with cinnamon when serving.
And finally ...
As you can see, lasagna with mushrooms is not the only option for this popular Italian dish worldwide. You can invent your own unique fillings and discover new tastes. Sweet Lasagna is a great dessert for tea or coffee. In addition to apples, try using bananas, chocolate, different fruits and berries. Be sure - you will want to cook this dish again and again!