I’m making Mary Berry’s sausagemeat lasagne (again !) for a couple of friends tonight. Any interesting thoughts about what to serve with it ? ( Garlic bread disagrees strongly with me)
This Mary Berry Sausagemeat Lasagne is my go-to recipe, it's not at all fatty and the sauce contains spinach and mushrooms,i it's absolutely delicious. It definitely needs crisp salad and olive ciabatta bread as accompaniments, along with a glass (or two) of Montepulciano ..
The original recipe is hardly overloaded with carbs -- about 75 grams of uncooked pasta for six people! (I'd use quite a bit more.) And I'm with a PP in that I would use Italian sausages, they are meatier but less fatty than English sausagemeat and very tasty. You can get fennel or chili flavoured ones in good delis or Italian shops in the UK . Pasta dressed with a sausage and tomato sauce is indeed authentically Italian. And Nigel Slater does a gorgeous pasta sauce made with crumbled sausage, Dijon mustard and crème fraîche. I'd serve a good salad with the lasagne but follow it with bread, cheeses and fresh fruit.
I'm curious. I've never heard of lasagna being served with chips, and think perhaps there is a language difference. When I think of chips they come in a bag, as a snack. Or do you mean chips as in french fries?
The original recipe is hardly overloaded with carbs -- about 75 grams of uncooked pasta for six people! (I'd use quite a bit more.) And I'm with a PP in that I would use Italian sausages, they are meatier but less fatty than English sausagemeat and very tasty. You can get fennel or chili flavoured ones in good delis or Italian shops in the UK . Pasta dressed with a sausage and tomato sauce is indeed authentically Italian. And Nigel Slater does a gorgeous pasta sauce made with crumbled sausage, Dijon mustard and crème fraîche. I'd serve a good salad with the lasagne but follow it with bread, cheeses and fresh fruit.
75g of cheese, not pasta. It’s 6 sheets of lasagne.
This Mary Berry Sausagemeat Lasagne is my go-to recipe, it's not at all fatty and the sauce contains spinach and mushrooms,i it's absolutely delicious. It definitely needs crisp salad and olive ciabatta bread as accompaniments, along with a glass (or two) of Montepulciano ..
Not really related but Dh had a nurse whose Italian mum made lasagne with sliced hard boiled eggs topping each layer apart from the top layer. She made us one once - it was very odd!! Xx
A pub we once went to served lasagne with chips and bread and butter (just regular white sliced). Dh had some sort of stir fry containing rice, which also came with chips and bread and butter. They clearly liked their carbs!!