Lasagna

Ingredients

500g mince

1 small onion chopped

1 clove garlic crushed

1 tsp mixed herbs

2tsp parsley

1 tub tomato paste

1/4 C tomato sauce (Alternatively, use tin tomatoes)

1 Cup beef stock and/ or red wine

White sauce:

2tb plain flour

2tb butter

1 1/2C milk

200g cottage cheese

1/4 Cup grated cheese

1/2 Cup grated cheese extra

Lasagna sheets

Directions

1tb oil in saucepan (better than frypan) and fry onion and then add mince and brown. Drain off excess fat

Add rest of the ingredients for bolognaise sauce and simmer while making white sauce

Melt butter in a different saucepan.

Take off heat and stir in flour.

Back on heat (low) and mix milk in slowly.

Stir over low heat until thick.

Add grated cheese and stir till melted. Stir in cottage cheese off the stove.

Put a tiny bit of meat sauce on the bottom of the dish, just so the lasagna sheets won’t stick. Layer lasagna sheets, then meat and white sauce 3 times (or you can put a lasagna sheet in after every meat/sauce layer) Finish with a white sauce layer and sprinkle with extra cheese.

For veggie lasagna:

Chop up assorted veggies to pieces eg: sweet potato, pumpkin, zucchini, potato, capsicum, carrot, broccoli, beans. Microwave veggies but leave a little crisp. The starchy ones can be then crisped up in the oven or in a fry pan. Add to a tin of tomatoes, mixed herbs, parsley and garlic and use instead of meat sauce.