Apr 29, 2006

Lasagna


Tomato Sauce
Cook the noodles

cheese, tomato sauce and spinach





















A dish made by baking pasta with layers of tomato sauce and fillings such as cheese , spinach, carrot or meat. If anyone visits Italy realizes, pasta and pizza are the famous dishes, Italian cooks have making varieties of pastas and pizzas from region to region: In America most of the people like this dish.Lots of vegetables used in this dish and easy to prepare.You can use ragu tomato sauce instead of making it.The word "lasagna" is derived from the Greek word "lasanon" meaning chamber pot. The word was later borrowed by the Romans as "lasanum" to mean cooking pot. The Italians then used the word to refer to the dish in which what is now known as lasagna is made. The word lasagna or lasagna (plural) now simply applies to the dish itself. The British generally use the plural "lasagna" to mean both the dish and the pasta while the Americans commonly use the singular "lasagna".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasagna

Ingredients
  • Chopped Spinach........ ...1 pack
  • Carrots Diced..................3
  • Garlic Cloves...................3
  • Onions Cut......................1 cup
  • Tomato Chunks...............1 can (12 0z)
  • Ttomato Paste.................2 cans(6 0z)
  • Parmesan Cheese............1/4 cup
  • Salt.................................2 and 1/2 tsp
  • Pepper............................1/2 tsp
  • Basil and Oregano.......... 1tsp
  • Pizza Cheese .................. 1/2 lb
  • Bay Leaf..........................1
  • Lasagna Noodles..............1 packet
























Method

  • Preheat the oven.
  • Heat a pan with olive oil add garlic and onions cook until becomes tender.
  • Add tomato,pepper,basil,oregano bay leaf, salt and simmer for an hour.
  • Cook noodles for 5 minutes adding little salt in the water.
  • Grease the lasagna pan.
  • Spread, in the layers of lasagna noodles,tomato sauce,carrot, spinach.
  • Repeat till the last layer noodles tomato sauce.
  • Put Parmesan cheese on the last layer
  • Bake this at 350 degree for 30 minutes.

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