Recipe Tip: Pasta: Lasagna with Beetroot, Spinach and Goat's Cheese - Falstaff

Instructions

1. Step 1

   Melt butter and 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil in a saucepan, add potato starch and flour, whisk constantly, heat the milk separately then add to the mix.

2. Step 2

   Whisk constantly and bring to the boil with a little salt.

3. Step 3

   Remove the saucepan from the heat before the sauce thickens too much, add the goat cheese and allow to melt.

4. Step 4

   Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg and set aside.

5. Step 5

   Blanch the lasagne sheets in lightly salted boiling water. Cool in cold water. Then remove from the water, drain and cut each lasagne slice in half.

6. Step 6

   Wash the spinach leaves and sauté them in a pan with the peeled finely chopped garlic clove and a pinch of salt. Set aside.

7. Step 7

   Peel the cooked beetroot to remove the outer tough skin and cut into thin slices.

8. Step 8

   Grease a lasagne dish and layer alternatley the béchamel sauce, some spinach leaves, a few slices of beetroot and lasagne sheets until everything is used up. The top layer should consist of sauce and spinach leaves.

9. Step 9

   Cook the lasagne in the oven at 180°C for approx. 20 minutes. Allow to rest for 10 minutes prior to serving.

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