One of the Best Homemade Lasagna Recipes Ever!

It's friday and time for another installment of fabulous food friday! When I see a recipe that says best recipe ever I am willing to give it a try. I recently made a homemade lasagna that I found from Family Ever After via Oopsey Daisy. It lived up to the hype, I really loved it.

Ingredients:

Ragu Sauce-

Olive Oil

Butter

1 onion

2 carrots

2 celery stalks

2 garlic cloves

1 lb. ground sausage

1 14oz can tomato sauce, or a handful of fresh tomatoes

1 can vegetable broth

s&p

Bechamel Sauce-

2 TB butter

1/3 cup flour

2 cups milk

1 cup cream

salt and pepper

 pinch of nutmeg

Other- 

pasta sheets (I recommend Barilla no boil)

mozzarella cheese

parmesan cheese

butter

Directions:

 To make the Ragu-

1.Wash and chop onion, carrots, celery, and garlic.

2. Heat butter and oil in pot. Saute vegetables briefly (I forgot celery so I left it out).

3. Add sausage. Saute.

4. Add tomato sauce, stock, salt and pepper.

5. Simmer on low for 1 hour.

To make the Bechamel (a white sauce)-

1. Melt butter. Add flour, stirring with a whisk, appx 1 minute.

2. Slowly add milk, then cream, stirring constantly.

3. Simmer on low until thickened, 5-10 minutes.

4. Season with s&p and nutmeg.

Assemble-

1. Preheat oven to 375.

2. In a 9x13 baking dish, spread a teeny tiny layer of the bechamel, preventing the pasta from sticking to the bottom.

3. The layers will be in this order- pasta, ragu, bechamel, mozzarella. Repeat 3 times.

4. Top with parmesan and a few pats of butter. (you don't have to do the butter, but its amazing)!

5. Bake for 40 minutes.

It really was as amazing as it looked. I am really bad at taking pictures of it nice and plated because I eat it so fast. It was fantastic. Have a great weekend!