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.

