BUDGET LASAGNE
BUDGET LASAGNE
BUDGET LASAGNE

Ingredients
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 250g/9oz beef mince
  • 1 onion
  • diced
  • 3 carrots
  • grated
  • 75g/2½oz butter
  • 75g/2½oz plain flour
  • 1 tsp English mustard
  • 750ml/1â…“ pint milk
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • crushed
  • 2 x 400g/14oz tin tomatoes
  • 250g/9oz lasagne sheets
  • salt and pepper
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6
  • Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat and add the olive oil. Once hot
  • add the mince along with a good pinch of salt and pepper. Brown the mince for 5-6 minutes until coloured all over and beginning to crisp. Remove the mince from the pan and set to one side.
  • Add the onion and carrot to the frying pan along with a pinch of salt. Cook gently for 10 minutes
  • or until everything is softened.
  • Meanwhile
  • melt the butter in a saucepan over a medium heat. Once melted
  • add the flour and mustard
  • stir to mix well. Leave to cook over a medium heat for two minutes
  • or until the mixture makes a paste.
  • Pour the milk in batches into the saucepan
  • whisking as you add to create a smooth white sauce. Once all the milk is added season with a pinch of salt and black pepper
  • turn the heat down and leave to simmer very gently for seven minutes.
  • Once the onions and carrots are softened
  • add the garlic to the frying pan and cook for two minutes. Return the meat (plus any juices) to the pan and add the tomatoes. Mix everything together
  • cover with a lid and simmer the sauce for 10 minutes until thickened slightly.
  • To assemble the lasagne
  • place a quarter of the tomato sauce into the bottom of a small/medium baking dish. Top with a layer of lasagne sheets. Spoon over another quarter of the tomato sauce and top with a third of the white sauce. Repeat this twice more
  • finishing at the top with the last layer of white sauce. (You should have three sets of layers of lasagne
  • tomato and white sauce
  • all on a bed of tomato sauce.)
  • Place into the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes or until bubbling and the top is golden-brown. Serve the lasagne in slices while hot.