Cheesy and Nutty Minced Meat Lasagna with White Sauce

You might have tried cheese and minced meat with spaghetti. You might also have tried nuts with minced meat. But have you ever tried a blend of minced meat, nuts and cheese? I am sure, not!

Lasagna is liked by people all over the world. It is mostly made with tomato sauce but I will be making it with white sauce. White sauce gives it a unique cheesy flavor which is quite different from the tomato sauce.

Ingredients for Lasagna

Lasagna noodles: 8-9 noodles

Oil: 1 tablespoon

Clarified Butter: 1 tablespoon

Onion: 1 medium sized (finely chopped)

Ground meat: 500 grams approximately

Salt: 1 ½ teaspoons

Pepper: ½ teaspoon

Cinnamon powder: 1 tablespoon

Nutmeg: ½ teaspoon

Ground cloves: ¼ teaspoon

Pine nuts or almonds (whatever you prefer) ¼ cup

Mozzarella cheese: 1 cup (grated)

Fresh parsley: 2 tablespoons (chopped)

Ingredients for Sauce

Butter: 2 tablespoons

All-purpose flour: 3 tablespoons

Salt: 1 teaspoon

Pepper: 1/4 teaspoon

Milk: 2 cups

Method

Let’s roast the almonds first. Grease a baking tray, place almonds in it and bake for five minutes. The oven temperature should be 350 degrees.

Let the almonds cool down and then crush them.
Don’t make them very small.

Boil water in a large skillet. Add 1 tablespoon oil and a pinch of salt. Put in the Lasagna noodles and boil for 90 seconds.
Take them out of water and spread in a dish. Grease them with a little oil if you feel like they will stick with the tray.

I am using beef for my dish. You can use whatever you like (mutton, lamb meat or pork). Grind the meat in the meat grinder. You can also use a meat processor. It also gives you a good textured meat.

Melt butter in a pan, add chopped onion and fry. Let the onion be golden brown.
Next, put in the ground meat and add salt, nutmeg, pepper, cinnamon and cloves.

Cook till the meat is no longer pink and the water in it has dried out.
Till the meat gets cooked, let’s make sauce.

Melt butter in a large saucepan. Put flour in it and cook. Add salt and pepper and blend well.
Add milk slowly and bring to boil. Cook for a minute more and let it become thick.