The Flying Dutchman


  Pesto lasagne — Lasagne al pesto

 



 700 g lasagne fresh or dried
 250 g pesto
 salt
 1 L béchamel (white) sauce
 salt
 knob of butter
 grated Parmesan cheese or Grana
 freshly ground pepper
 

Cook the lasagne, a few at a time in plenty of boiling water, to which you will have added a little oil. Remove the slightly undercooked lasagne with the help of a skimmer and place them in a very large bowl of cold water. This stops them cooking and sticking together and also avoids you burning your fingers later. Add the other lasagne until they are all cooked. Make the béchamel (white) sauce and, cool it a little before mixing it with the  pesto sauce. Grate plenty of Parmesan cheese or Grana. Grease a large oven dish with butter and place a layer of lasagne on the bottom, pour on a few ladlefuls of béchamel and pesto sauce and a generous sprinkling of grated cheese. Continue until you have used up all the ingredients keeping enough sauce to cover the top layer. Place it in a pre-heated oven at 180C/350F/4G for twenty minutes so that it cooks forming a lovely crust and serve either hot or warm.

    Updated 08 November, 2007 - webmaster Dirk Steine