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The two cheeses lasagna.

You can have The two cheeses lasagna using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of The two cheeses lasagna

Prepare 60 grams of chedder cheese.
It's 1 of large carrot chopped into 1cm cubes.
You need 1 of onion, chopped finely.
You need 1 of Celery stalk finely chopped.
Prepare 500 grams of minced beef.
You need 1 of Glass Italian dry red wine.
You need 400 grams of Tinned Chopped Tomatoes.
You need 1 tbsp of Tomato puree.
Prepare 1 of courgette chopped into 1cm cubes.
It's 9 of Sheets fresh lasagne each about 10x18cm.
Prepare 1 of Cold Salted butter cut into 1cm cubes.
You need 1 of salt and pepper.
You need 100 grams of Salted Butter.
You need 100 grams of plain flour.
You need 1 liter of full fat cold milk.
It's 50 grams of freshly grated parmesan cheese.
Prepare 1/4 of Freshly grated nutmeg.
Prepare 10 of Basil leaves.
You need 3 tbsp of olive oil.

The two cheeses lasagna step by step

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat and cook the onion,carrot and celery for five minutes. Add the minced beef and continue to cook for a further five minutes, stirring continuously, until coloured all over .Season with salt and pepper and continue to cook for five minutes stirring occasionally..
Pour in the wine ,stir well and continue to cook for 5 minutes until the wine has evaporated. Add the chopped tomatoes, the tomato puree, the courgettes and the basil, lower the heat and continue to cook for one hour uncovered until you get a beautiful rich sauce. Stir occasionally. After about 30 minutes taste for seasoning..
Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180C/350f/gas mark 4 and make the bechamel sauce. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in the cold milk ,reduce the heat and cook for 10 minutes whisking constantly. Once thickened stir in half of the parmesan cheese with the nutmeg. Season and set aside to cool slightly..
Spread a quarter of the bechemel sauce in the base of a deep 2.2 litre oven proof dish. Cover with 3 lasagna sheets , cutting them if necessary to fit the dish. Spread with half the meat sauce then top with a third of the remaining bechemel sauce. Cover with 3 sheets of lasagna and with the remaining meat sauce. Spread over half of the remaining bechemel sauce then add a final layer of lasagna sheets and gently spread the rest of the bechemel sauce on top ensuring the lasagna sheets are completely covered..
Sprinkle with the remaining parmesan and scatter over the cubed butter. Grind some black pepper over the whole lasagna.
Cook on the lowest shelf of the oven for 30 minutes then place the dish on the middle shelf ,raise the oven temperature to 200C gas mark 6 and continue to cook for a further 15 minutes until golden and crispy all over.
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