Cheese & bacon lasagne
By Sara Buenfeld
Cooking time
Prep: 35 mins Cook: 40 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 6This freezable, family-friendly recipe is economical and has a wonderful comfort-food feel about it
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition
- kcalories
- 425
- protein
- 23g
- carbs
- 37g
- fat
- 22g
- saturates
- 9g
- fibre
- 4g
- sugar
- 14g
- salt
- 3.03g
Ingredients
- 3 large onions, halved and thinly sliced
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 300g pack lean smoked back bacon, chopped
- 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes in rich juice
- 20 basil leaves, roughly torn, plus extra to serve if you like
- 250g pack fresh egg lasagne (check pack for cooking instructions)
For the white sauce
- 600ml milk
- 50g each butter and plain flour
- generous grating fresh nutmeg
- 50g grated parmesan
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Method
- Fry the onions in the oil for about 15 mins until golden. Add the oregano and bacon and fry for 5 mins more, stirring frequently. Tip in the tomatoes, season and bubble uncovered for 5 mins. Remove from the heat and stir in the basil.
- Meanwhile, make the white sauce. Pour the milk into a pan and tip in the butter and flour. Whisk continuously over a moderate heat to incorporate the flour, then simmer, stirring until thickened. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
- Spoon a third of the tomato sauce on the base of a lasagne dish. Top with a third of the lasagne sheets. Then top with a third sauce, a third lasagne, the last of the tomato sauce and finally the last sheets of lasagne. Pour over the white sauce and scatter with the cheese and an extra grating of nutmeg. Chill. If eating straight away, bake at 190C/170C fan/gas 5 for 40 mins until golden and bubbling. Scatter with basil, if you like, and serve with a salad and garlic bread.
- To freeze, cool completely, then wrap in cling film, then foil. Will store for 3 months. To serve, thaw for 6 hrs in a cool place. Unwrap and bake at 190C/170C fan/gas 5 for 50-60 mins until thoroughly heated through.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2009
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
Made this for my husband and we both enjoyed it, in fact he had seconds.
I fried 2 cloves of garlic with the onions and a handful of button mushrooms too. I used dried lasagne sheets which worked fine, just don't over lap them because the bit that I'd overlapped was a little tough. I also used grated mozarella instead of parmesan and put a little in the white sauce ;) It was yummy and tasted lovely warmed up for todays lunch too.
A lovely change from the usual lasagne. I added 2 chopped red peppers and more bacon to the tomato sauce. I also put some of the cheese into the white sauce so the cheesey flavour mingled in - I added black pepper and a tsp of mustard to the white sauce too. I added some porridge oats to the grated chees I sprinkled on the top for extra crunch! Yummy!
My lasagne will never have minced beef in again!
Easy to adapt and alter - we have it with mushrooms and/or courgettes, could easily try aubergine or anything else that you fancy (could easily leave the bacon out for a veggie version)
A fantastic freezer filler to - we have a couple of portions for dinner 4/6 portions go into the freezer - easy peasy.
This is the most regular meal in our family.
I have made this and found it very yummy! I scaled down the ingredients to make it for 2 and we found it was much lighter than the regular minced beef versions, so a great mid-weeker.
I added some mushrooms in when frying the bacon and also added thawed frozen spinach to the sauce with the basil. Served with salad leaves, it was yum!
im about to try this but going to use pork mince too. bought the lasagne sauces by dolmeo and was going to cheat but saw this so ill ust tins of chopped tomatoes but not got oregano or basil so will use mixed herbs and bacon and mince... (still cheating with dolmeo white sauce tho lol) fingers crossed this works out :) sounds DELISH tho will rate it when i done to let ya all know how it works out :) xxx
