Recipe: Chicken Lasagna by Shireen Anwer

Ingredients

Chicken Filling
• ◾1 kg boneless chicken, small cubes
• ◾3 to 4 tbsp. oil
• ◾4 to 5 tbsp. finely chopped onion
• ◾2 tsp. garlic paste
• ◾1 tsp. salt
• ◾2 tsp. black pepper
• ◾1 tsp. oregano
• ◾2 tbsp. flour
• ◾200 ml. cream
Cheese Sauce
• ◾6 tbsp. butter
• ◾4 tbsp. flour
• ◾1/2 to 1 tsp. salt
• ◾1/2 to 1 tsp. white pepper
• ◾3 cup milk
• ◾1 cup water
• ◾1 cup cheddar cheese shreded
Tomato Sauce
• ◾2 tbsp. oil
• ◾2 tbsp. chopped onion
• ◾1 tsp. garlic paste
• ◾6 tbsp. tomato paste
• ◾1 tsp. salt
• ◾2.5 tsp. crushed red pepper
• ◾1 tsp. oregano
• ◾2 tbsp. sugar
• ◾1 cup water
Lasagna
• ◾6 lasagna sheets, boiled
• ◾1 capsicum, cut in stripes
• ◾1 cup cheddar cheese shredded

Instructions

Chicken Filling
1. Cut chicken in cubes and leaves aside.

2. Heat oil in a pot, add onion and fry till light brown. Add garlic paste and fry for a minute. Next add chicken, season with salt, pepper, oregano and flour. Pour about a cup of water, cover the pot and let it cook till chicken is tender. Stir in cream and close the stove after a minute.

Tomato sauce
3. Fry onion in oil till transparent, add garlic paste and mix for a minute. Season with chilli flakes and salt. Pour in a cup of water and stir in tomato paste. Once boil comes lower the flame and let it simmer for a while.

Cheese Sauce
4. Heat butter in a pan, mix in flour and cook at low flame for 2 minutes. Close the flame and pour in milk stirring simultaneously. Now restart the flame and cook at low flame stirring continuously till the sauce thickens. Now add in water to lighten the sauce consistency. Season with salt and white pepper. Now close the flame and mix in cheddar cheese immediately so that it mixes in well.

Preparing the dish
5. Boil lasagna strips and drain. Apply oil to avoid dryness.

6. Place boiled lasagna strips at the bottom.

7. Put on it the chicken filling, capsicum strips,

8. tomato paste.

9. Then again place lasagna strips and repeat the fillings.

10. Lastly cover the top with shredded cheese.

11. Now Grill for 5 to10 minutes till cheese melts.