A rich lasagne from Yotam Ottolenghi.
Ingredients
- 30 g dried wild mushrooms
- 20 g dried porcini mushrooms
- 2 dried red chillies deseeded if you don’t like too much heat, not the extra-hot small ones
- 500 ml warm chicken stock
- 80 ml olive oil plus a little extra to grease
- 1 onion peeled and finely diced
- 3 garlic cloves peeled and crushed
- 1 carrot scrubbed clean and finely diced
- 2 tomatoes finely diced
- 200 g shimeji mushrooms finely chopped, or any other fresh
- salt and black pepper
- 600 g minced pork
- 3½ tbsp tomato paste
- 120 ml double cream
- 10 g basil leaves roughly chopped
- 350 g fresh lasagne sheets
- 40 g pecorino romano finely grated
- 40 g parmesan finely grated
Servings:
Instructions
- Put the dried mushrooms and chillies in a bowl, pour on the stock and leave to soak for 30 minutes (and up to two hours). Strain the liquid into a second bowl, then finely chop the mushrooms and chillies.
- Heat the oven to 200C/390F/gas mark 6 and grease a round 27cm-wide x 5cm-high ovenproof dish. On a medium-high flame, heat 60ml oil in a large, heavy-based pan for which you have a lid.
- When hot, fry the onion, garlic and carrot for five minutes, stirring occasionally, until soft and golden. Add the tomatoes, shimeji, and two and a half teaspoons each of salt and pepper, and fry for five minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are cooked.
- Stir in the pork, then, resisting the urge to stir more, leave it to fry for six minutes. Stir together, then leave to fry again, undisturbed, for five minutes: you want the meat to be slightly crisp and browned on the bottom.
- Stir in the chopped soaked mushrooms and chillies, tomato paste, stock and 850ml water, simmer for four to five minutes, then turn down the heat to low.
- Cover the pan and leave to simmer gently for 25 minutes, stirring a few times to make sure the sauce doesn’t catch. Remove the lid and simmer for 20 minutes more, stirring occasionally, until the sauce reduces and thickens, then turn off the heat and stir in the cream and basil.
- To assemble the lasagne, spread a quarter of the sauce over the base of the greased dish, then top with a layer of lasagne. Spread another layer of sauce on top, then scatter over a third of the cheese.
- Repeat these layers twice more, finishing with a scattering of cheese, and drizzle over the remaining 20ml oil. Cover the dish tightly with foil, bake for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for 20 minutes more, until brown and crisp on top. Set aside for five minutes before serving.
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