Lasagne cheese sauce

[LoveMyFamily]

What's an easy recipe for the cheesy sauce that takes minimal ingredients?

[redrobyn]

Cheese sauce is just flour cooked in butter you blend in milk and then add grated cheese keep stirring til smooth when I make lasagne I don't use cheese sauce I put ricotta in the layers and then put a blend of ricotta mixed with egg,milk grated cheese on top sort of like a cheesy egg custard..everyone says my lasagne is nice.

[Sparkles]

i used to use the recipe on the pasta pack..it was easy....

[redrobyn]

Do you cook sometimes Melinda?

[Naomi]

I don't measure ingredients. I melt a slab of butter in a saucepan on medium heat. When it's melted I mix in plain flour until it's approximately the right consistency (not lumpy/dry but not too runny. Kind of a 'paste' I guess). Then on low heat I add milk gradually while continually stirring, as it thickens I add more milk until it's at the right consistency then I add grated cheese at the end and mix it in before pouring it over the lasagne. I add more cheese on top as well.

I know there are super easy options using a mix of sour cream and maybe philly? but it doesn't taste quite right IMO.

Bechamel sauce isn't hard to make, it's just a complete pain to wash up the saucepan afterwards.

[Sparkles]

Do you cook sometimes Melinda?

mmmmm well i actually havent made lasagne for years but in my day it used to be one of my favs....

[happyasapiginmud]

I don't measure ingredients. I melt a slab of butter in a saucepan on medium heat. When it's melted I mix in plain flour until it's approximately the right consistency (not lumpy/dry but not too runny. Kind of a 'paste' I guess). Then on low heat I add milk gradually while continually stirring, as it thickens I add more milk until it's at the right consistency then I add grated cheese at the end and mix it in before pouring it over the lasagne. I add more cheese on top as well.

I know there are super easy options using a mix of sour cream and maybe philly? but it doesn't taste quite right IMO.


Bechamel sauce isn't hard to make, it's just a complete pain to wash up the saucepan afterwards.

This is exactly how I do it....the butter and flour mix is called a "roux"....we learn't how to do this when I went to highschool........I use gluten free plain flour and g/f San Remo lasagne sheets...and no one knows the difference...................Yum yum, piggys bum....one of the whole family's fav's

[cayte]

That is how I do it as well. I have done ricotta as well, it tastes yummy too.

[Frannie]

Try adding a touch of nutmeg as well and it justs lifts the flavour...... !

[LoveMyFamily]

Thanks, I will try it with ricotta and maybe nutmeg.