Lasagna Cassamella Recipe. The ideal miocrowave lunch.

	5 Star version of lasagna		Cassamella Lasagna Recipe 7 layered
			This is a great version of this dish. It usually has 7 very thin layers which holds it together and is more pasta than usual. In one go a lot of work. But my wife makes pasta sauce in large batches and freezes it in plastic containers. So for me its make the pasta dough and bechamel sauce and it goes together quite easily. You do need a pasta maker but any decent home cook has this these days. I probably spend 30 minutes or more cutting, rolling and blanching each sheet to fit perfectly. You could do it a lot rougher but you then can't fit 7 layers in. A friend of mine makes a similar 5 layered Lasagna using the packet pasta sheets that don't come up the sides. And its good too. But I like this one, particularly when its reheated. The thin alternate layers work really well and the slightly thicker sheets on the bottom and up the sides make it sort of like a pie.
	Casamella Style lasagna		This is the Ideal microwave lunch
	1 kg Pasta sauce 500g Fresh pasta dough 1 litre Bechamel sauce Parmesan cheese Mozarella cheese		Spray a glass baking dish with oil Roll out pasta dough in long sheets to second thinnest setting. Trim sheets to fit pan. Fit two sheets together so they will form up the sides of the dish. Cook these sheets for 60 sec in boiling salted water and layout to cool on a wet tea towel. Line the bottom and side of dish with these sheets. Trim neatly and precisely to fit. I use kitchen scissors to cut and trim. Smooth a thin layer of pasta sauce. Roll out pasta on 2nd thinnest setting and then use a rolling pin to widen to the width of the pan. This will also thin it out quiet a bit. Cook in boiling water for 40 secs and cool. Trim to fit and lay onto meat sauce. Continue making a bechamel layer and then meat layer and so on till the last layers is a layer of bechamel sauce. Sprinkle with mozarella and parmesan cheese Bake at 180° covered with foil for 20 minutes then uncovered 20 minutes. Grill for 5 minutes or till browning on top. Let stand at least 30 minutes to firm up. Cut into pieces in the dish and remove to plate Note: Ideally Refrigerate overnight and then reheat to get the lasagne to set more solidly. Makes a fabulous microwave lunch.

Cassamella Lasagna Recipe 7 layered