Sunday, September 30, 2007

Lasagne

These are the traditional Lasagne (Lasagne alla Bolognese). To make it you need to prepare before Bolognese sauce and Bechamel. A lot of variant can be invented only replacing changing the Bolognese sauce with something else, like a mushrooms or spinach cream.

Ingredients (for 6 people):
  • Gianky's Bolognese
  • Gianky's Bechamel
  • Salt
  • 200 gr. of cooked ham
  • 500 gr. of Lasagne
  • 200 gr. of Mozzarella cheese
  • 100 gr. of Parmesan cheese


Preparation
:

Boil the water and turn on the oven at 200 °C. Chop the cooked ham. Add the salt to the boiling water and put in there the lasagne for three minutes. Make a layer of bolognese in a baking pan and alternate layers of lasagne, bolognese, bechamel, chopped ham, mozzarella and Parmesan. Over the uppermost layer of lasagne put only bolognese, bechamel, mozzarella and Parmesan. Cook into the oven for 20 minutes.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Bechamel

This is the second basic ingredient for my lasagne as well as a lot of other types of oven-cooked pasta (pasta al forno).

Ingredients:
  • 50 gr. of butter
  • 2 spoons of flour
  • 500 gr. of milk
  • Nutmeg
  • Salt


Preparation:

Melt the butter in a pot then turn off the stove and add the flour. Blend the flour until make the mixture homogeneous. Turn on the stove and add slowly the milk, meanwhile add a bit of nutmeg and salt. Cook approximately for 5 minutes until reach the desired thickness.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Bolognese Sauce

This is one of the most famous Italian sauces to use with spaghetti, penne or whatever kind of pasta. It is also the first part of my Lasagne's recipe.

Ingredients:
  • Half an onion
  • A carrot
  • A celery
  • 200 gr. of chopped pork meat
  • A cup of oil
  • 500 gr. of tomato sauce
  • 2 cups of water
  • Salt


Preparation:

Chop the onion, the carrot and the celery. Then fry them all with the chopped meat in the oil already heat. Add the tomato sauce, the water and the salt. Cook for 1 hour approximately until reach the desired thickness.

Here we are...

Hello and welcome to everybody. I'm proud to announce that the Gianky's recipes project has started and soon new recipes will be added to this blog, together with their video recording.
The idea is to post all that traditional Italian recipes that my friends like so much and that I use to cook to spread Italian culture over the world :P.
By the time I must thank my friend Carlos for his help and support, who made possible the development of the first gk-recipe, Italian Lasagne.
Thank U for the visit and have a nice time!