Quick Easy Lasagna on a Sunday

Pretty easy lasagna

First of all you must remember it is the two sauces that makes lasagna. What sauces am I talking about? Well, it is what i call the red sauce and the white sauce.

Red sauce

What I meant by red sauce is the spaghetti sauce. Refer to my previous post on the ingredients and how to make one. http://fadzarahim.blogspot.my/2016/11/spaghetti-napolita-is-japanese.html

This is the white sauce

The white sauce is the creamy sauce where you start with melting butter in a saucepan. Stir flour (about 5 tablespoon) in the saucepan. Stir well and you have to watch out that the flour doesn't turn into lumps. Cook for 2 minutes over gentle heat. Remove from heat and stir in milk (I used  one tin of IDEAL Evaporated milk) and added water (use the same tin measurement from the IDEAL milk). 

Gordon Ramsay pours the milk three times. Every one third, he will stir and remove from heat if it starts to thicken and goes back to the heat.

So, return your saucepan to heat and keep stirring until the mixture is thick and smooth. Season the mixture with salt and pepper and add mozarella or cheddar cheese. My friend would add in the cheddar cheese slices (5 slices). Stir over low heat until cheese melt. 

The brown lumps you see in the picture is because I didn't keep stirring.

Start layering the sauces

Once the sauces are ready, prepare a baking tin. Pour in the red sauce first, Then layer it with lasagna. I used San Remo's Instant Lasagna.

Make sure the lasagna covers your red sauce. Then, pour in your white sauce.

Layer the white sauce with lasagna. Just make sure there is enough sauce to cover the layers.

Keep layering the sauces and lasagna until the white sauce is on top. Then, sprinkle a generous amount of cheese (mozarella or cheddar)

I POURED cheddar cheese

Before you bake, heat the oven at 180 degree for 40 minutes. Then, bake for 40 minutes.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy, your lasagne is ready

Try it out on a Sunday and let me know how yours turn out.

Spaghetti Napolita is Japanese?

I was watching Midnight Diner yesterday and so this main character called 'Master' in that movie was a chef. He has a diner where his regulars would come only at midnight and after. He opens from 12am to 7am.

So, in one scene he served Spaghetti Napolita to his customer and she was praising how tasty it was. It was mouth watering to me especially when it was served with scramble eggs. So today, I bought some ingredients and dashed to make my Napolita.

Of course I referred to my friend for the basic spaghetti sauce recipe. I added onions and garlics. Button mushroom, minced meat, red and green pepper, some tomatoes and a bottle of Prego Napolita sauce. I also added one bottle (the Napolita sauce bottle) of water. Then I added salt and sugar for seasoning. It seemed like it turned out well but it was watery. Perhaps I shouldn't use too much water, or perhaps I should just stick to tomato puree as advised by my friend.

Here is a picture of the Spaghetti Napolita. I used Angel Hair for the pasta.

After Isya' I decided to just find out how experts cook this dish only to find out this is a Japanese Dish. Well, that is a lesson for me. Perhaps tomorrow I will prepare some scramble eggs with the leftover Spaghetti Napolita.