Don't throw away your Halloween Pumpkins! You can use the pulp of them for a yummy risotto! Follow the recipe and enjoy it!
PS Pumpkin is an excellent natural fertiliser. Even when the pulp has gone bad, it can be used to feed the garden.
Lasagna is one of Italy's most succulent pasta dishes.
The secret lies in selecting tasty ingredients and alternating them with the pasta sheets and béchamel sauce.
We always make our lasagne both traditional, i.e. with meat sauce, and vegetarian with vegetables and cheese.
We like to make the béchamel sauce with extra virgin olive oil, which we are experts in, so it is less fatty than using butter.
To make a vegetarian lasagna, the milk for the béchamel sauce can also be oat milk.
Here are all the steps to make your own lasagne at home.
Many ingredients can be found in our shop.
Enjoy and let us know how your lasagna turned out by posting a photo and tagging egro_london.
Here the Ingredients you need for 8 - 10 servings.
Finely chop the carrot, celery and onion and sweat slowly with a little olive oil in a large, deep skillet or pan.
Once you've sauteed the veggies, add the meat and brown whilst breaking it up with a wooden spoon.
Add the red wine and reduce by half. Once the wine has reduced, add the sieved tomatoes, tomato paste, bay leaf, 4 cups of the beef stock and a pinch of salt and pepper. Stir everything together and leave to simmer on a low heat for 2.5-3 hours uncovered. Add the rest of the beef stock half way through.
Add the butter (or Evoo) to a saucepan and cook until melted and bubbling.
Add the flour to the melted butter and stir to form a paste. Let the flour cook for 1 minute.
Slowly whisk half of the milk into the butter and flour constantly whisking to avoid any lumps. Once it has started to thicken add the rest of the milk, nutmeg, parmigiano reggiano and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Continue to heat the sauce whilst stirring until thickened enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. Take off the heat and set aside
To assemble the lasagne, spoon a small amount of ragu on the very bottom of the baking dish. Top with and even layer of lasagna pasta sheets.
Add a few more spoons of ragu so the pasta is completely covered followed by white sauce.
Repeat the layers of pasta, ragu and bechamel sauce finishing with a layer of pasta topped with bechamel sauce (you should have 4-5 layers of pasta). Cover the top layer of the lasagne with torn mozzarella and then bake in the oven until bubbling and golden.
You can use dry or fresh pasta sheet!
Did you know that the name Amatriciana comes from a small village in Lazio, 1 hour from Rome, called Amatrice?
Over time, it has become a true cornerstone of Italian gastronomy just like Carbonara and Cacio e pepe; since 2020, this Italian excellence has been officially recognised by the EU as a 'Traditional Speciality Guaranteed' (Stg) against possible imitations and fakes.
Here is what we consider the perfect recipe for preparing Pasta alla Carbonara as they serve it in Rome, rich and creamy!
Very few ingredients are needed to prepare the real Carbonara. In fact, Carbonara, according to the original recipe, is prepared with pasta, which can be spaghetti, rigatoni or mezze maniche (as is the custom in Rome), seasoned PDO Roman pecorino cheese, guanciale (not bacon) and black pepper. And the water for cooking, just to be precise!
