I love eating lasagna. Such an awesome and delicious treat. You can make a delicious lasagna with just a couple of quick tips. Are you tired of eating a soggy lasagna? Don't you wish you could make a lasagna that was easy to cut and serve nice square blocks that stay together? Making a lasagna can be a tough and intimidating task, but with the right lasagna cooking tips, you can make it delicious. Check out these tips for a better lasagna.
For the meat sauce, I combine a couple types of meat. I like to use 3 meats: beef, pork and turkey for the best flavor. I prefer using dried noodles and I make sure to add a lot of the sauce around the noodles. This will allow the noodles to soften up while baking and the lasagna will not be runny because I did not boil the noodles before adding them to the lasagna.
With the Parmesan cheese, I prefer the freshly grated type, for obvious reasons...taste. As with any recipe, the better the ingredients the better the dish, but this is a dish you can cheat a little. Again, with mozzarella cheese, you have to find the best and the freshest type of mozzarella.
Whatever you do, do not add liquid to your sauce. You want your sauce to be thick, especially if you add veggies to your sauce. Veggies will only add more water to your lasagna and then you won't be able to cut out nice squares that stay together.
Be sure to have aluminum foil on hand to cover your lasagna while it bakes. If you don't use aluminum foil, it will burn on top of the lasagna. Leave it covered for most of the baking time, only uncovering it during the last 15 minutes of baking.
Spray your baking dish AND put a little sauce on the bottom so the noodles won't stick or get tough.
Drain meat VERY well to keep lasagna from being runny.
Use eggs for binder. Try three eggs with meat, spaghetti sauce, cream cheese, cottage or ricotta cheese, mozzarella, and noodles.
There are hundreds of lasagna tips on the internet, but these are the most important lasagna tips, I believe. You can also make vegetarian lasagna, but I absolutely love Meat Lasagna and that's all I usually make. Good luck with your lasagna! - 30210
For the meat sauce, I combine a couple types of meat. I like to use 3 meats: beef, pork and turkey for the best flavor. I prefer using dried noodles and I make sure to add a lot of the sauce around the noodles. This will allow the noodles to soften up while baking and the lasagna will not be runny because I did not boil the noodles before adding them to the lasagna.
With the Parmesan cheese, I prefer the freshly grated type, for obvious reasons...taste. As with any recipe, the better the ingredients the better the dish, but this is a dish you can cheat a little. Again, with mozzarella cheese, you have to find the best and the freshest type of mozzarella.
Whatever you do, do not add liquid to your sauce. You want your sauce to be thick, especially if you add veggies to your sauce. Veggies will only add more water to your lasagna and then you won't be able to cut out nice squares that stay together.
Be sure to have aluminum foil on hand to cover your lasagna while it bakes. If you don't use aluminum foil, it will burn on top of the lasagna. Leave it covered for most of the baking time, only uncovering it during the last 15 minutes of baking.
Spray your baking dish AND put a little sauce on the bottom so the noodles won't stick or get tough.
Drain meat VERY well to keep lasagna from being runny.
Use eggs for binder. Try three eggs with meat, spaghetti sauce, cream cheese, cottage or ricotta cheese, mozzarella, and noodles.
There are hundreds of lasagna tips on the internet, but these are the most important lasagna tips, I believe. You can also make vegetarian lasagna, but I absolutely love Meat Lasagna and that's all I usually make. Good luck with your lasagna! - 30210
