Pizza Sauce

-1kg tomatoes
- handful of basil
- 2 cloves garlic
- one small onion
- teaspoon of dried oregano
-salt n pepper for taste
- teaspoon of sugar

Method:
1.Place onion, garlic and basil in TM bowl and chop for 5 sec on speed 7
2. Saute on Varoma tempreature for 4 minutes on speed 1
3. Place remaining ingredients and cook on Varoma for 20 minutes until sauce thickens
4. Blitz to smooth sauce slowly to Speed 9 for a few second. Enough for 8 large pizzas.

Bechamel Sauce

 Adapted from:

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/recipes/french-bechamel-sauce/82101

Ingredients

1 litre(s)

Béchamel Sauce, French

90 grams plain flour
60 grams Butter
750 grams milk
1 level teaspoon salt
white pepper, ground, To taste
pinch grated nutmeg,, optional

Preparation

French Bechamel Sauce

Put all the ingredients in the TM bowl & cook 7 mins/90C/speed 4.

Lasagna

Lasagna - Eggplants and spinach with minced pork

 I made the bechemel sauce from Thermomix. Took only 7 minutes. how crazy is that and it was smooth nice. I left it to stand too long so you can see the top starting to curd. the sauce was not enough, i need to make 2 batch of this next time. see recipe here

 

 The vegetables were massive. 1 large eggplant, 1 zucchini, 1 carrot and handful of spinach. Plus one onion and few cloves of garlic. All minced and mashed up like baby food in the Thermomix.

 I started browning the minced pork. Added some veggie stock and when they are almost pink i pour in the veggies. There were way too much veggies i think. I definitely overdose on this sauce. Then came in the mushrooms and the pasta sauce, tomato paste, bay leaves dried oregano and seasoning all over.
The sauce tasted so veggie. Might have trouble with Jovan eating it.

 After it is cooked for around 10 minutes, time to get ready to layer the lasagna. I bought store made lasagna sheets.

I covered the bottom with the sheets, then top up with bechemel sauce, meat sauce then bechemel sauce then grated cheese then lasagna sheets. it when on and on for 3 layers.

 in the oven it goes.

 after baking for 45 minutes. the top part was not cook as there is not enough sauce to cover it. So next time definitely need to cover with meat sauce on top. Alot of cheese went into this dish.<

Another version with fresh sheets. See how different the sheets turned out. The packed ones got burnt easily as there were not enough sauce covering the top. The fresh ones cooked nicely and have a yummy crunch. I cooked this version with fresh Latino Sheets and also their Fresh Pasta Sauce. Sauce can easily be made in the Thermomix but i just wanted to try out the Latino brand.
The fresh sheets really mark a difference and is highly recommended.
The sauce, i will make it on my own next time but it definitely taste healthier than the bottled ones.
I made this lasagna with 8 fresh sheets, 6 sheets for the big tray and 2 for the smaller ones.
Vegetables used this time, minced Kale + Carrot + Zucchini. Added more fresh tomatoes, seasoning and just taste as it goes. Mushrooms when into this lasagna as well.
Verdict: much yummier than the previous one I made. Will continue to fine tune for a not so fatty version.:)