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Lasagne
Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil, 500 g minced beef, 500 ml tomato sauce, 100 ml beef
stock, 150 g dried lasagne sheets, 1 onion (chopped), 200 g grated
cheese, 1 tbsp each of dried parsley flakes, oregano, basil
Directions
Prepare tomato meat sauce. Heat the oil in a frying pan, then cook the
minced beef and chopped onion for about 10 min until browned all over.
Pour over the tomato sauce and beef stock, add the dried herbs. Bring
up to the boil, then simmer for 30 min.
Cook lasagne noodles according to package directions. Layer the lasagne
noodle, meat sauce, and cheese then repeat. Then sprinkle evenly with
remaining cheese on the top of layer of noodles and bake.
Apple pie
Ingredients • Pastry
: 275 g flour,
1
/
2
tbsp salt, 125 g white castor sugar, 8 g vanilla
sugar, 175 g cold butter, 1 egg(beaten)
• Filling
: 750 g firm whole apples, 1 tbsp lemon juice, 40 g sugar,
1
/
2
tbsp cinnamon, 50 g seedless raisins, 2 tbsp bread crumbs
Directions
Sift the flour with the salt above a big bowl. Sift the castor sugar and
vanilla sugar with it. Cut with 2 knives the butter through the flour in
small cubes. Add
3
/
4
of the beaten egg. Knead all the ingredients in the
food processor until a crumbly mass appears. Form the dough into a
ball with your hands. Wrap it in plastic foil and leave it chilled for about
30 min.
Grease the spring tin (24-26 cm diameter) and dust the surface with
flour. Roll out
3
/
4
of the dough till 5 mm thickness. Put it in the tin
(bottom and sides).
Peel and core the apples. Cut them in cubes of about
3
/
4
x
3
/
4
cm.
Sprinkle the apples with lemon juice and mix well. Wash and dry the
currants and raisins. Add sugar, cinnamon, raisins and currants. Mix well
and sprinkle the bottom of dough with bread crumbs. Press slightly.
Roll out the rest of the dough. Cut the dough in small strips and put
them cross wise on the filling. Brush the pie evenly with the rest of the
beaten egg.
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