Dan's Favourite Lasagne

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 500 g beef mince
• 1 large onion
• 1 garlic clove (1 tsp garlic salt or paste)
• 2 carrots, peeled and chopped
• 250 g mushrooms
• red pepper
• orange bell pepper
• green pepper (i buy these mixed in frozen packs in frozen packs)
• 350 -700 ml passata (sieved toms-amount depends on how many people and if you like the lasagne to be juicy)
• 340 g canned tomatoes with basil (or fresh tomatoes without skin)
• oregano
• parsley
• 1 teaspoon rosemary
• thyme (dried mixed herbs are also fine)
• 1 -2 beef bouillon cube (or 2 tsp beef granules)
• 100 g cheddar cheese, to sprinkle over the top 300g lasagna sheet
• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
• 25 g plain flour
• 1/2 pint milk
• 25 g cheddar cheese, grated

Recipe

• 1 firstly add the oil to a deep frying pan and heat up.
• 2 add the garlic and onions and cook until soft. you can add some water if you find that the oil dries out too much.
• 3 add carrots; mince and cook whilst browning. add rosemary and one beef cube; cook until brown.
• 4 at this point i drain the mince to get rid of some of the oil.
• 5 add the peppers, mushrooms and herbs then the passata and tinned tomatoes; cook for 15 minutes.
• 6 in a separate pot add the butter to melt, then stir in the flour add the milk; whisk if it becomes lumpy then take it off the heat. stir until thickened.
• 7 you must take pan off heat, add in the cheese and stir.
• 8 preheat oven to 180°.
• 9 grease your dish and add a layer of the red sauce. add lasagne sheets to cover, then a layer of sauce.
• 10 on top of this add a layer of red(it doesn't matter if it mixes) cover the top with lasagne sheet, add another layer of and sprinkle with cheese.
• 11 put in oven for about 30 minutes.
• 12 if you like this spicy then add some jalapenos to the red sauce once cooked.