introduction To Meat Lasagna

Series Summary

Lasagna is an Italian dish made of pasta layered with meat, cheese and vegetables and baked in the oven. The dish has been around for centuries and was featured in the first cookbook ever written in England. Like many pastas, it is a versatile dish that allows for many variations in ingredients. Most lasagnas include a tomato based sauce, with or without meat, ricotta and mozzarella cheese and long pieces of lasagna noodles. Many vegetables or meats can be added to lasagna, including spinach, zucchini, peppers, onions, sausage and beef.

In this free video series, our expert chef will teach you how to make a meat lasagna. You will get easy to follow steps for cooking lasagna noodles, preparing the meat, and layering the pasta. You will also get tips for adding the meat and cheese and layering each part of the lasagna for a delicious Italian meal. If you are looking for a crowd pleaser, lasagna is always a good bet, so let our expert show you how it's done with this great meat lasagna.

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Rich Buccola here in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make lasagna. Alright, lasagna. It's a great dish. I make a lot of spaghetti sauce here on Expert Village. You're going to have to make it too. With that extra big pot of spaghetti sauce, like you see there in the back, we're going to make a lasagna today. Basically, if you follow the instructions of that video here on Expert Village on how to make pizza sauce. I made about 2 pounds of meatballs and 12 sausages. For lasagna, you can use a pound of just grounded beef, but this is the way to make your meat mixture for you lasagna. Make my sauce the same way, and we're going to show you exactly everything in this video on how to make the best lasagna you've ever tasted. This was handed down from my great-grandmother. This is how far this goes back. Through the years my grandmother, my mother, everybody's been putting in their own little fix. I even put my own little fix, and you're going to have to do that as you cook it. I'm going to show you everything on cost, presentation, how to buy it, how to make it, and how to eat it of course. It's a great, great dish. It's lasagna and it's coming at you right here on Expert Village. Come back. We're making it."