Garfield once said (while paraphrasing Will Rogers) “I never met a Lasagna I didn’t like.” This particular Lasagna is easy to prepare and tastes great. It’s basically a combination of meat base (mince meat, chopped onions, and garlic) combined with a jar of tomato based spaghetti sauce, a little oregano, layered in with grated cheese between sheets of lasagna, and topped with a Carbonara sauce and more cheese.
Ingredients (3 serves)
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 300g minced beef
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 1 packet of lasagna sheets
- 1 jar of a tomato based spaghetti sauce (for example I used a 375g jar of Bolognese Sauce)
- 450g Carbonara sauce
- 1 cups of grated cheese for the layers
- 1/2 cups of grated cheese for the top
Method
- start preheating the oven for 180 C
- heat oil in frying pan
- add onion and garlic and cook for about 5 min.
- add mince meat and oregino, mix together and cook for a further 15 min. or so until the mince meat has browned
- add the tomato-based sauce to the mix and stir though
- let the mixture simmer for a further 10 or 15 minutes stirring occasionally (note: the mixture should be semi-liquid but if your combination looks too dry just add a little water or tomato juice
- prepare the lasagna dish by coating the sides and base with butter or margarine
- spread about 1/4 of the Carbonara sauce over the bottom of the dish
- cover with the first layer of Lasagna sheets
- spread 1/4 of the meat sauce mixture over the Lasagna sheets then sprinkle 1/4 of the cheese over the top, then layer over more Lasagna sheets
- repeat the previous step another three times (bringing the total number of layers to 4)
- pour the remaining Carbonara sauce over the top, spreading the mixture evenly
- sprinkle the 1/2 cup of grated cheese over the top
- place in the oven and cook for 40 min. at 180 C