Lasagne of Love

Name: Lasagne of Love
Yield: Makes 9–12 slices depending on how you cut it, though I wouldn’t want to feed any more than 8 with this in my house
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons sea salt flakes (or 1 teaspoon fine sea salt); Vegetable prep detritus from meat sauce, above; 1 teaspoon sea salt flakes (or ½ teaspoon fine sea salt); 1 litre full-fat milk, plus more as needed; 3 fresh bay leaves; 1 stick of celery; 3 x 15 ml tablespoons (approx. 25 g) freshly grated Parmesan; 500 ml beef stock; 250 ml red wine (good enough to drink) or red vermouth; 2 x 400 g tins of chopped tomatoes; A good grinding of white pepper; 4 fat cloves of garlic; 150 g rindless pancetta (or bacon); 1 ball mozzarella, not bufala; 100 g plain flour; 1 x 15 ml tablespoon fresh thyme leaves (or 1 teaspoon dried thyme); 3–4 x 15 ml tablespoons olive oil; A small bunch of flat-leaf parsley (approx. 20 g); 100 g unsalted butter; 125 ml full-fat milk; 4 x 15 ml tablespoons (60 ml) tomato purée; 350 g minced pork; 5 x 15 ml tablespoons (approx. 40 g) freshly grated Parmesan; 350 g minced beef; ⅛ teaspoon dried chilli flakes; 2 large-ish onions (approx. 350 g); 2 fresh bay leaves; 18–20 dried lasagne sheets; 2 carrots (approx. 250 g)

Preparation info

Makes
9–12 slices
depending on how you cut it, though I wouldn’t want to feed any more than 8 with this in my house

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cook, Eat, Repeat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 2020

About

This is what I make for my children’s birthday celebrations, for parties to send them off before they go away, and for the dinners to welcome them back when they come home again. And it’s always made, of course, in the same dish (which I have in triplicate). But then, every family has its own much-loved recipes that absolutely have to be repeated for special occasions, year in, year out, through the ages, and this is one of ours. I love the ritual of making it: the anticipation, the prepara

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Europe
Italy
Main course
Birthday
Mediterranean

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