Two Sauce Weeknight Lasagna Bowls

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 servings
  • Total: 30 min
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Cook: 20 min
Classic lasagna in my family is made by layering thin lasagna noodles, preferable egg pasta, with layers of bechemel or white sauce, and a light meat sauce. Here, curly short-cut pasta is topped with the white sauce and topped with a rich meat sauce for mixing in.
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Ingredients

Salt

1 pound Campanelle pasta

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

1/4 pound pancetta, a couple of thick slices, chopped

3/4 pound ground beef pork and veal mix or ground beef

1/2 large carrot, peeled and grated or finely chopped

1 small to medium onion, chopped

3 cloves garlic, 2 chopped or grated, 1 peeled

1/2 teaspoon allspice, a couple of pinches

Freshly ground black pepper

1 bay leaf

3 tablespoons tomato paste

1/2 cup dry red wine

2 cups beef stock

3 tablespoons butter

3 tablespoons flour

2 cups milk

Nutmeg, to taste

1/2 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano, plus some to pass at table

A handful fresh parsley leaves, finely chopped

Directions

  1. Heat large pot of water to a boil, salt water and cook pasta to al dente.
  2. While pasta water comes to a boil, heat olive oil in a medium sauce pot over medium-high heat, add pancetta and render 2 to 3 minutes then add meat and break up as it browns. When the meat has begun to caramelize and develops a nice brown color, 4 to 5 minutes, add carrot, onion, 2 cloves of garlic, allspice, salt and pepper and a bay leaf. Cook 3 to 4 minutes more to soften onions and carrots bits then stir in tomato paste and cook for 2 minutes, then stir in wine and cook out 1 minute then stir in stock and reduce heat to simmer.
  3. While red sauce cooks, cut remaining whole clove of garlic and rub the inside of a medium sauce pot with it. Melt butter in pot over medium heat. Add in flour and whisk together a minute or so then whisk in milk and bring to a bubble, reduce heat then season sauce with salt, pepper and nutmeg, thicken 8 to 10 minutes.
  4. Toss pasta with white sauce and 1/2 cup grated cheese. Serve pasta in individual bowls and top with a ladle of meat sauce in the middle of the bowl for mixing in. Garnish with parsley.

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Carolyn J.

I'm sorry. I do usually love Rachael's recipes, but this one will not be on repeat. The pasta and cheese sauce was good, but the tomato sauce lacked a lot. I added a lot more tomato paste and some sugar because it didn't taste at all like the sauce you would usually use in lasagna. I would make it again with a different tomato sauce. Also it took closer to 60 minutes than 30.

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