Lasagna al Pesto con le Patate

Name: Lasagna al Pesto con le Patate (Lasagna with Pesto and Potatoes)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup unsalted butter; 3 medium potatoes, peeled; 12 sheets fresh lasagne; small leaf basil or torn basil leaves, to garnish; sea salt and ground black pepper; 60 ml/4 tbsp pesto; 115 g/4 oz/1¼ cups grated Parmesan cheese; 600 ml/1 pint/2½ cups milk; 50 g/2 oz/½ cup plain/all-purpose flour

Lasagna with Pesto and Potatoes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

About

The combination of potatoes and pesto is a classic one, and the addition of the pasta, cheese and creamy sauce here turns it all into a lovely dense, rich dish which makes a perfect vegetarian lunch or supper dish, especially during cold weather. Serve with a salad, if you like.

Ingredients

12 sheets fresh lasagne
3 medium potatoes, peeled
50 g/

Europe
Italy
Supper
Lunch
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Pasta

Method

Blanch the pasta sheets in salted boiling water and drop them into cold water to prevent them sticking to each other. Lay them out ready to use. Do not let them overlap, or they will stick together.
Cook the potatoes in a large pan of salted boiling