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Lasagna? This Sunday let's roll them up! – Italian Cuisine

Lasagna? This Sunday let's roll them up!


Lasagna rolls are a fun way to serve the workhorse of Italian tables on Sundays for lunch. Here's how to prepare them and all the tastiest variations on the theme

Sunday lunch in Italy it rhymes with only one dish (or almost): le lasagna! Made up of simple ingredients, once removed from the oven, they conquer for their creaminess and gluttony. The lasagna Bolognese are the most classic recipe with puff pastry, ragù is bechamel that make up many layers in a pan. But if we offered you the same lasagna by the way swivel?

The preparation is the same as the traditional lasagna, you just need to improve on the technique ofrolling up. The result will be an even more crunchy crust. Here is the recipe, while in the gallery you can find 5 variants on the topic really greedy.

How to make lasagna rolls

The ingredients

We give you the ingredients to make the "real" Bolognese lasagna, the original recipe of which is deposited at the Bologna Chamber of Commerce. For the ragù you will need: 300 g of coarsely ground beef, 150 g of pork belly, 50 g of carrot, 50 g of celery stalk, 50 g of onion, 300 g of tomato sauce or peeled tomatoes, half a glass of dry white wine, half a glass of whole milk, broth, extra virgin olive oil or butter, salt and pepper to taste. For the lasagna you will need: 400 gr of white flour, 2 eggs, 250 gr of spinach. For the béchamel, finally: 100 grams of flour 00, 100 grams of butter, 1lt of fresh whole milk, fine salt and nutmeg to taste.

The procedure

Start with the ragù, which is the recipe that takes the longest. Chop the bacon and fry it with the oil, butter and the chopped celery, carrot and onion. Then, add the ground coffee and let it flavor, blend with the wine and let it evaporate. At this point, add the tomato puree and simmer everything for about two hours. After about an hour and a half, add the milk to dilute the acidity of the tomato and season with salt and pepper.

Now move on to the homemade pasta: add the flour, eggs and spinach previously boiled and sieved on a pastry board. Knead and with the help of a rolling pin, roll out the dough until you get very thin cloths of dough. Obtain large squares to boil later and let them dry on a cloth.

Now it's time for the béchamel: in a saucepan melt the butter over low heat, incorporating the flour little by little with the help of the whisk. The roux must turn golden: at this point add the milk, salt and nutmeg.

Here comes the funniest moment, that of assembly. Take your squares and stuff them first with a sauce of bechamel and then with a spoonful of meat sauce, taking care to leave the edges free. Roll the pastry on itself, then with a sharp knife cut out the roll of swivels of about 3 cm each. Take a baking dish, butter it and then pour a little béchamel on the bottom. Then garnish it with the swivels. Cover with more béchamel. Preheat the oven to 160 ° and bake for about half an hour. Remove from the oven and serve hot.

Browse the gallery for other recipes of lasagna rolls

Let's do it at home! – The Italian kitchen – Italian Cuisine


The lockdown to mitigate the second wave of Covid-19 returns at various levels. We return to stay indoors, especially in the red regions. But will we also return to cooking a lot? Here are the recipes to prepare many products in our kitchens that we usually buy already made or semi-finished

Here we go again. Unfortunately, we already knew a little. The virus circulates a lot, too much, albeit not uniformly throughout the national territory. For this reason, instead of a generalized total lockdown, this time the government has preferred to divide the Italian territory into yellow, orange and red areas. In any case, the advice, for everyone, to limit travel to the bare minimum, whatever the restriction color the region in which you live is subject. This suggests the scientific community, but also the central and peripheral government bodies. Shopping then becomes a problem. Our advice is to avoid doing it daily: rather, let's make a detailed list of things that always come in handy, especially long-term or frozen foods. We're not telling you to go raid supermarkets like there's no tomorrow, just a organize well in shopping to respect the advice that the authorities are giving us in this complicated moment of the contagion from coronavirus Covid-19.

All homemade!

And then, preparing everything that is possible at home is not just a matter of limiting travel, but also because what we prepare at home is tastier, more genuine, it makes us rediscover old customs and ancient traditions. remembering our grandmothers or mothers, it also allows us to spend some creative time with our children, as many are back at home doing remote lessons, putting them next to us to work in the kitchen. In short, you want to add the pleasure of eating the bread made by you or the brioches or, again, the bread sticks, the rusks …

Homemade: the bread!

For a beautiful loaf homemade serve 400 grams of flour (the most suitable is that of type 00), 200 ml of water, 10 grams of yeast of beer, salt and a teaspoon of honey, useful to promote leavening. Alternatively, you can choose to use some sugar. In any case, first you arrange the flour on a pastry board, pour the water, add yeast and honey and mix well, obviously with your hands, adding the salt. At this point, all that remains is to let the dough rise for at least two hours; you then put the loaf in the oven, preheated to 250 degrees, and cook it for about twenty minutes, after which it is necessary to leave the bread for another thirty minutes in cooking, but at 180 degrees. Before putting the loaf in the oven, however, don't forget to cut it with a knife. Finally, to make homemade bread more delicious, different kinds of oil seeds can be added to the leavened dough, such as sunflower, linen or Pine nuts.

Homemade: the recipes for preparing the foods we usually buy ready-made

Let's free up the spaces! 10 tips for tidying up (even in the kitchen) – Italian Cuisine

Let's free up the spaces! 10 tips for tidying up (even in the kitchen)


Because freeing ourselves from the superfluous allows us to make room for what makes us happy. Three moves and a handbook are enough to take inspiration

During the lockdown we had cleaned the whole house, we had got rid of the superfluous, cabinets and drawers were perfect, but once we got back to the routine, the chaos took over our house (and our everyday life). This is not necessarily negative: a quote says that "chaos generates life, where order generates habit". But if this is sometimes true, it is also often true tidying up the house (and not only) it can help us to put order in our life too.

How and why to free up spaces

In other words, it's good to get rid of what we don't need it for have more space for what makes us happy. With this idea, Ikea launched the first movement of Liberation of Spaces proposing a change based on three pillars of order, namely Decluttering, Organizing and Displaying. Getting rid of clutter and what is no longer needed, giving objects a second life from a circular economy perspective, is the first step to find space for new memories and for what makes us happy. We then move on to tidying up, creating a space where you can find everything exactly when you need it: green light for labels, boxes and everything that allows you to leave nothing to chaos. The final touch, displaying, then allows us to show the objects that make a house our home. Therefore, rethinking spaces becomes a need to live better, especially now that we are forced to stay indoors for a long time again. So let's get to work, maybe starting from kitchen: optimization, organization, but also creativity are needed.

10 tips for tidying up

Any advice to get started? Here is the decalogue of Manifesto of the Movement for the Liberation of Spaces designed by Ikea in a playful and ironic tone. The last point is what we like best!

1. If nothing is upside down in the house, everything will be fine. Yes, even on Monday morning.

2. Get rid of what you don't need: you will have more space for what makes you happy.

3. Give a second life to what you don't use. So, you are good for the planet!

4. Labels are your best friends.

5. Do not leave anything to chaos, not even the wardrobe.

6. Remember: if the order reigns supreme, live like a king.

7. Keep everything you care about in plain sight. Not really everything, everything …

8. Plan your way, perhaps by color.

9. Say goodnight to clutter: you will have better dreams.

10. Order everything and then reward yourself with a box. Yes, but say cookies.

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