White sauce (for lasagne) Qs and recipes

Counting_Pennies_2

I always do Delia's all in one. It only takes ten minutes to make from scratch. There is no frantic lump removal, it is so simple I never make any other sauce!

Once cooked I just add a load of grated cheese either to the sauce or on top of each layer depending on what I feel like at the time.

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/all-in-one-white-sauce,1009,RC.html

apple_mint

By coincidence we had 'made-up' lasagne yesterday.

Layers of HM pasta,

..... bolognese mince mix (lamb mince, onion, tinned toms, boullion powder, italian herbs, teaspoon of sugar, balsamic vinegar - cooked until reduced)

... and HM sauce. The HM sauce being low fat cottage cheese mixed with greek yoghurt (just HM yogurth strained through a muslin lined sieve). Layered in dish - final layer being the 'cheese sauce'. Parmasan cheese sprinked on top.

I guessed at half an hour at 220 and it came out perfect.

It was absolutely gorgeous :drool:

fallen121

apple_mint wrote:

..... bolognese mince mix (lamb mince, onion, tinned toms, boullion powder, italian herbs, teaspoon of sugar, balsamic vinegar - cooked until reduced)

Do you add water to the boullion powder before you add it? Also out of interest, whose powder are you using?

Fresh or preserved herbs?

Just curious!

[Deleted User]

Just got back from my DD's and she asked me if I knew of any recipe for a low-fat white lasagne sauce. I said off the top of my head I didn't but I am sure one of you smashing people might know of one . She is JUST learning to become a bit more MSE and at 39 is realising the error of her high-spending ways .She seems to be permanantly dieting so what ever recipes she tries it has to be low-fat ones .
Any ideas folks , I know someone will come up with something on here:beer:

Sarahsaver

I used plain unsweetened yoghurt once and it worked. The cheap stuff about 35p for 500g from the asian grocers.

rhubarbs

Hi,

Delia does a fatless white sauce. A friend of mine says its good. I like mine with butter and cheese personally!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/fatlesswhitesauce_70005.shtml

ironed_out

I always make the sauce with the Tesco value UHT skimmed milk, with cornflour to thicken it up.

recovering_spendaholic

2oz flour, 1 pint skimmed milk, 2tbs parmesan cheese, pinch herbs, pinch mustard powder and salt and pepper to taste. You just whisk everything together and then bring to the boil slowly, whisking all the time. If it goes too thick for your taste just add a little more skimmed milk until you get the consistency you like. I make lasagne with this sauce all the time and I make the meat sauce with extra lean mince and it always tastes nice.

JillD_2

just skip the white sauce altogether. and use LF cottage cheese on the top (sounds wird, and does taste differnt, but still lovely).

If making for other people just leave one quarter or whatever sauceless and with cottage cheese.

meerkatgirl

Not quite white sauce, but try topping lasagne with cottage cheese - it tastes lovely when cooked, i promise!