🍝 Lasagne
Also known as: Lasagna, Lasagne al forno, Lasagne alla bolognese, Lasagne verdi
A baked dish of pasta sheets layered with sauce and cheese; the Accademia Italiana della Cucina gives a recipe for lasagne verdi alla bolognese with spinach dough, ragù, bechamel and Parmigiano Reggiano.
Lasagne are a baked pasta dish in which sheets of pasta are layered with sauce and cheese. The Accademia Italiana della Cucina publishes a recipe for lasagne verdi alla bolognese, the Emilia-Romagna version, for four people.
The dough is made from 350 g of '00' flour, 2 eggs and 200 g of boiled, squeezed and finely chopped spinach, and is rolled into a light green sheet that is not too thin. The filling uses 500 g of classic Bolognese ragù, 200 g of grated Parmigiano Reggiano, 350 (g) of bechamel, 100 g of butter, salt and pepper.
The sheet is cut into rectangles of 15 x 10 cm, boiled in salted water and lifted out as soon as they float, dipped briefly in cold water and dried on a cloth. In a buttered dish they are layered with ragù, bechamel, butter flakes and Parmigiano, pricking each layer three or four times with a toothpick; there are at least six layers, finished with a sheet topped with ragù, bechamel, butter and Parmigiano. The dish is baked for about 30 minutes at about 180 °C, with the grill for no more than two minutes if a light browning is wanted, and rests for five minutes before serving in upright portions.
Facts
| Raw material | Spinach dough (flour, eggs, spinach), Bolognese ragù, bechamel, Parmigiano Reggiano, butter 1 |
|---|---|
| Region | Emilia-Romagna (Italy) 2 |
| Duration | About 30 minutes baking at about 180 °C 1 |
How it connects to Pasta
🍝 Lasagne → related → 🧀 Parmesan ← related ← 🍝 Pasta
Links
- What is used
- Lasagne sheets
- What it contains
- 🍝 Bolognese sauce, 🥚 Chicken egg
- Part of
- Pasta sauces and dishes
- In other topics
- 🧀 Parmesan, 🧈 Butter, 🥛 Milk, 🧀 Ricotta
Frequently asked questions
What are lasagne verdi?
In the Accademia Italiana della Cucina recipe the dough contains boiled, finely chopped spinach (200 g per 350 g of flour and 2 eggs), which gives a light green sheet.
How long are lasagne baked?
The Accademia recipe gives about 30 minutes at about 180 °C, plus at most two minutes under the grill for a light browning.
Which ragù goes into lasagne alla bolognese?
The recipe uses 500 g of classic Bolognese ragù together with bechamel and grated Parmigiano Reggiano.
Recipes
What to read next
- Lasagne sheets — Wide flat rectangular sheets of pasta layered with sauce and baked in lasagne; for example, Barilla makes them from durum wheat semolina and fresh eggs.
- 🍝 Bolognese sauce — A slow-cooked meat sauce from Bologna; its reference recipe was deposited by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina at the Bologna Chamber of Commerce in 1982 and updated on 20 April 2023.
- 🧀 Parmesan — Parmigiano Reggiano, a hard cheese from Emilia-Romagna and part of Lombardy, aged from 12 months.
- 🥚 Chicken egg — The egg of the domestic hen: in pasta it gives yellow colour, an elastic dough and protein, and in the EU it must be highlighted on labels as an allergen.
- 🥛 Milk — A nourishing liquid that female mammals produce to feed their young.
Similar
🍝 Bolognese sauce · 🧅 Pasta alla genovese · 🧈 Pizzoccheri alla valtellinese · 🍅 Gnocchi alla sorrentina · 🫘 Pasta e fagioli · 🍝 Carbonara
Sources
- Accademia Italiana della Cucina — Lasagne verdi alla bolognese (ricetta)
- Accademia Italiana della Cucina — Emilia-Romagna