making bolognaise sauce from scratch

Suewre

I made a bolognaise base with mince last night, I added a tin of baked beans to pad it out, and on the top I put a mix of grated cheese, eggs, milk, salt and pepper and baked it, and served it with potato wedges. It went down very well.

98jdougl

thanks for all the ideas folks, i always seem to hve problems with lasagne, love it but it never tastes right but will give it another shot- orry if i sound thick but what is bechamel sauce?

dealwithdebtdot

Hi, I stuff peppers or pancakes with bolognaise sauce. Red peppers are best i think, with some salad and garlic bread. Pnackaes either roll them up with a couple of spoonfulls of sauce a bit like canelloni or fold them up itno pacakges or triangles. Put them in a pyrex dish or soemthing similar. Top the pancakes with bechemel sauce (white sauce made with milk and a roux) and then sprinkle with cheese.

Peppers are good when you have succumbed to a bag of mixed value ones, and pancakes are good to use up yorkshire pudding mix! also dried up ends of cheese get used!

frugalswan

I love toasted sandwiches made with bolognese sauce. I just use the sandwich toaster, butter the bread and lay it butter-side down on the hot plates, then spoon on some bolognese sauce and sprinkle on some grated cheese. Put the other piece of bread on, butter-side out so it gets toasty, and close it. A few minutes later, you have lovely bolognese toasties.

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x Frugalswan x

sillyvixen

top with mash for an italian style shepherds pie. or use to top jacket potatoes with grated cheese for any easy tea.

artichoke

put bolognaise onto tortilla's roll up and put in a lasagne dish, cover with grated cheese and a spicy salsa if desired and bake in oven..

Debt_Free_Chick

98jdougl wrote: »

thanks for all the ideas folks, i always seem to hve problems with lasagne, love it but it never tastes right but will give it another shot- orry if i sound thick but what is bechamel sauce?

A classic white sauce - but please, don't think about using a packet mix. One suggestion (from Delia, of course!) here

kamperkat

frugalswan wrote: »

I love toasted sandwiches made with bolognese sauce. I just use the sandwich toaster, butter the bread and lay it butter-side down on the hot plates, then spoon on some bolognese sauce and sprinkle on some grated cheese. Put the other piece of bread on, butter-side out so it gets toasty, and close it. A few minutes later, you have lovely bolognese toasties.

Frugalswan I'm so pleased I found someone else that does this - I thought I was weird!!:j

Other idea for leftover bol sauce - bung in a tin of kidney beans, some cooked peppers and chillis/chilli powder....

Kkxx

sparklylime

As an emergency tea one night (nothing else in!!!) I split open a baguette, spread a layer of bolognaise on, covered it in grated cheese and popped under the grill untill all the cheese was melted. Called them pizza sticks

sillyvixen

98jdougl wrote: »

thanks for all the ideas folks, i always seem to hve problems with lasagne, love it but it never tastes right but will give it another shot- orry if i sound thick but what is bechamel sauce?

i aways use chees sauce - i am veggie so usually make veg or lentil lasagne, but if my parents are coming for tea i make them a meat lasagne - my dad loves the sauce and says it is better as a result than the shop bought lasagne my mum buys (admidly she camt make cheese - or white - sauce, if i go round to her house for sunday lunch she normally makes a veg lasagne from scratch but i have to make my own sauce:rotfl::rotfl: