Courgette Lasagna
Traditional Italian-American lasagna gets a French twist in this dish, which is loaded with rich, creamy bechamel sauce. Thinly-sliced courgettes (zucchini) add flavor and color.
Notes
Serves 4-5.
Ingredients
- 5 sheets of pasta for lasagna (either home-made, or in ready-made square sheets)
- 800 gram courgettes (zucchini)
- 150 gram onions
- 80 gram butter or margarine
- bechamel sauce
- 2 tablespoon flour
- 1/2 liter milk
- 100 gram Parmesan cheese
- olive oil, to taste
- salt and nutmeg powder, to taste
- a few basil leaves
Instructions
1. Prepare a bechamel sauce by adding milk slowly to cooked flour-butter mix, not too thick, and add a pinch of salt and nutmeg powder.
2. Put the thinly sliced courgettes together with the chopped onion, and cook them in a little olive oil. Butter a square pan, and place in it alternate layers of pasta and some bechamel with courgettes and Parmesan cheese, and then again pasta, etc., for five times. Add to the top layer of pasta, covered with bechamel and Parmesan cheese, a few pieces of butter or margarine and a few basil leaves. Cook in the oven till golden.