Meat Lasagna – Cooking Tips

by Mike Smith

I love cooking and eating lasagna.  However, it can be tough and intimidating, but with the right cooking tips, you can make it delicious.  Most tips that you’ve heard of before, I left out and only wanted to include tips that you probably haven’t seen before.  With these tips you are guaranteed to make a delicious lasagna.

For the meat sauce, I combine a couple types of meat.  I like to use 3 meats: beef, pork and turkey for the best flavor.  I prefer using dried noodles and I make sure to add a lot of the sauce around the noodles.  This will allow the noodles to soften up while baking and the lasagna will not be runny because I did not boil the noodles before adding them to the lasagna.

With the Parmesan cheese, I prefer the freshly grated type, for obvious reasons…taste.  As with any recipe, the better the ingredients the better the dish, but this is a dish you can cheat a little.  Again, with mozzarella cheese, you have to find the best and the freshest type of mozzarella.

Do not add liquid to your pasta sauce. You want your sauce to be thick, especially if you add veggies to your sauce. The veggies will add extra liquid to your pasta sauce.

Cover your lasagna with aluminum foil while it bakes. If not, it will burn on top. Leave it covered for most of the baking time, only uncovering it during the last 15-20 minutes of baking.

Be sure to put a little sauce on the bottom so the noodles won’t stick.  You can also spray it with pam if you choose to.

Drain meat VERY well to keep lasagna from being runny.

Eggs are a great tip and you use eggs for binder. Try three eggs with meat, spaghetti sauce, cream cheese, cottage or ricotta cheese, mozzarella, and noodles.

There are hundreds of lasagna tips on the internet, but these are the most important lasagna tips, I believe.   I tried to only include the best and most effective tips for your lasagna.  You can also make vegetarian lasagna, but I absolutely love Meat Lasagna and that’s all I usually make.  Good luck with your lasagna!

Try this delicious (http://www.recipematcher.com/index.php/recipe/show/Meat-Lasagna/) meat lasagna recipe.

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