The Best Homemade Lasagna Recipe

welcome to my channel my name is benji travis and today i'm cooking one of my family's favorite dishes lasagna after lots of research and feeding this recipe to them in different variations for over like the last few years i've come up with the best lasagna recipe so let's get right into the ingredients it's split up into three different sections and the meat sauce is first so for our proteins we're using some beef we're using some mild italian pork sausage ground up also i've got some onions which i sliced in a mandolin and then minced up with a knife we've also got some pressed garlic that i prepped so it's nice and easy to integrate and of course some pasta sauce i'm just using a bottle this is super easy and convenient nothing wrong with it and this is one of my favorites it's roused from costco all right so for the white sauce which does take a little extra effort but it's absolutely worth that muscle and time that it takes because this is what makes this lasagna so delicious so let's get into the bechamel sauce ingredients so first off we've got the flour we've got the butter make sure that's room temperature we've got some milk and then i shredded up some parmesan cheese and lastly the stacking ingredients we've got some mozzarella cheese that also shredded up and then i boiled some pasta to get it ready to bake in the dish in the oven so without further ado let's go ahead and get to cooking because this does take a little bit of time but it's absolutely worth it first thing you're gonna do is get a large pot or dutch oven to start cooking up your meat sauce medium-high heat you're going to warm up your pot drop some olive oil and throw in your meat crank the heat up on high i like to cook the beef and pork separate for proper browning if your pot is big enough cook up both once it's brown go ahead and remove your meat and put it off to the side keep the heat on and some more oil in the pan toss in your minced onions and cook it for a few minutes to soften once you see slight browning go ahead and create a space add some more oil and then add your garlic and italian seasoning let that simmer in the oil for 30 to 60 seconds but don't let it burn so letting the garlic and the italian seasoning actually cook up in that olive oil is going to help bring out some of those flavors so it's really important that you do this and you don't just toss it in without doing that step go back and stir all together for a minute or so then add back your meat to the mix keep stirring until it smells amazing and cooked through at this point i gradually add my pasta sauce little by little put as much as you want till you get the right consistency not too chunky but not too runny it's all about balance all right so don't tell the italians but yes i squirt a little bit of this in here ketchup any ketchup will do this just helps with a little bit of that sweetness all right so the meat sauce is done i've moved it over to the side and it's on a low simmer make sure you keep stirring that and paying attention to it right when it hits that right flavor you can actually turn it to the lowest setting i've also put the milk into a small pot and i've turned the heat on low i just want to get that warmed up not too hot you definitely don't want to boil it and now it's time to make the bechamel sauce once warmed up toss tossing the butter and raised the temperature slightly once the butter is bubbling you will add the flour mix thoroughly into a clump remove the power pan from the heat slightly and then add your milk quarter by quarter keep stirring as you add slowly don't stop stirring and gradually move the pot back to the burner keep doing this until the milk is added and you have a silky smooth sauce so this bechamel sauce is looking awesome i've got a little bit of milk left now what's really important is that you don't ever leave this sauce you've got to always be paying attention scrape the sides scrape the bottom make sure it doesn't scorch or burn and if you're cooking your meat sauce still make sure you are constantly stirring that ideally you want to do these at separate times but for the sake of time i'm doing both at the same time but you want to keep your eyes on your bechamel for sure at this point lower the heat to the lowest setting slowly add some of the salt and white pepper add to taste until you get the right flavor then slowly add your parmesan at this point you can turn off the heat as you're mixing in the cheese so this should taste amazing smooth and definitely cheesy all right so my meat sauce done my bechamel done got my pasta ready i've got my mozzarella cheese it's time to stack but first make sure you preheat your oven to 375 degrees fahrenheit and then we'll stack our lasagna go ahead and get a baking dish and put some of the meat sauce at the bottom spread it around and then stack your first layer of pasta once the pasta is spread out go ahead and pour on your bechamel sauce sprinkle on some mozzarella cheese and repeat this again i like to do this two to three times [Music] on the last layer make sure you switch up the sauce and the bechamel so you're going to put the pasta sauce first and then the bechamel and then put the cheese on top so you can get that nice brown golden crust at the top boom the lasagna is done now all we need to do is bake it so i'm going to go ahead and cover it up with this foil throw it into the oven for about 40 minutes uncover it and then broil the top and we're good to [Music] go [Music] wow all right so this is done it's perfectly brown it's got that golden color but some of that charring because that's where the flavor's at whoa whoa whoa neda look at that wow all right so you're going to want to let this sit for about 10 minutes to let everything settle and then you can slice into it [Music] [Music] there you go lasagna is done it's been resting for well over 10 minutes now so i'm going to finally taste it but if you guys like this video hit that like button comment below when you're going to cook this for your family and uh yeah let me taste test it right now the moment of truth [Music] oh man honey you hungry what [Music] let's go try it [Music] so

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Length: 8min 12sec (492 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 27 2020