Mama's Best Lasagna

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 36.

	this recipe	typical
cheese	158%	117%
dairy	166%	2%
fat	19%	2%
thickener	8%	0%
egg	0%	6%
salt	0%	1%
aromatics	44%	19%
different cheeses	2.0	2.0
melt idx	0.7	0.7
cheese flavor idx	0.3	0.4
stretch idx	0.8	0.6

Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

14 g	1 tablespoon olive oil
150 g	1 onion (finely chopped)
61 g	1 carrot (finely diced)
12 g	4 cloves garlic cloves (minced)
680 g	24 ounces ground beef mince
284 g	10 ounces ground pork mince (or beef)
680 g	24 ounces Passata
397 g	14 ounces crushed tomatoes
	3 tomato paste (heaped tablespoons. I use garlic and herb flavoured.)
8 g	2 beef bouillon cubes (or vegetable, crushed)
1 g	1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 g	1 teaspoon dried basil
2 g	1/2 teaspoon sugar (if desired)
2 g	1/4 teaspoon salt (season to your tastes)
1 g	1/4 teaspoon black pepper (season to your tastes)
57 g	4 tablespoons butter
30 g	1/4 cup flour (all purpose or plain)
610 g	2 1/2 cups milk
100 g	1 cup shredded parmesan (fresh )
368 g	13 ounces fresh lasagna sheets
482 g	17 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese (shredded)
12 g	2 tablespoons fresh parsley (finely chopped )

Method: 13 steps, published by cafedelites.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“This is my absolute favorite lasagna! I hate ricotta cheese so this one totally fits the bill! So creamy and luxurious everyone Raves about it! Thank you so much for a wonderful recipe! One quick question though.... I'm going to be short on time tomorrow after” — a cook, 5.0★

“This has become my family’s favorite Christmas Eve dinner! Best lasagne ever!! I like to break the cooking up and make the meat sauce in advance, helps to not be in the kitchen all day!! Do yourself a favor and make a double batch of the sauce and freeze half ” — a cook, 5.0★