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#WFD – Chicken Lasagne

Cover with foil and bake in oven for 30 minutes, until golden and bubbling.

POLOKWANE – Ah, the age old lasagne!

Originating in Italy, lasagne commonly refers to a dish made with several layers of lasagne sheets alternated with sauces and other ingredients, such as meats and cheese.

What’s for Dinner says if you want to try something different, cook their tasty classic chicken lasagne recipe. Creamy, comforting and full of flavour this is the perfect dish to serve to the family, and a great way to get the kids to eat more vegetables.

Ingredients

  1. 30ml olive oil
  2. 4 skinless, boneless chicken thighs
  3. zest of half a lemon
  4. 30ml sage, chopped
  5. 1 clove garlic, crushed
  6. 200g button mushrooms, halved
  7. 1 leek, chopped
  8. 500ml low fat milk
  9. 30ml dried porcini mushrooms
  10. 15ml corn flour, mixed with a little water
  11. 1 x KNORR Chicken Stock Pot
  12. lasagne sheets, cooked and drained
  13. 100g parmesan cheese or cheddar, grated

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  2. Heat half of the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook the chicken for 5 minutes on medium-high heat, stirring continuously until the chicken is evenly browned. Add the garlic, lemon zest and sage and cook for a further 3 minutes until garlic has softened.
  3. Stir in 300 ml of the milk and Knorr Chicken Stock Pot. Bring to the boil, add dried porcini mushrooms and simmer on low heat for 10-15 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, in a separate pan heat the remaining olive oil. Add the mushrooms and leeks. Cook on medium heat for 5-6 minutes.
  5. Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside. Pour the liquid through a sieve and back into a saucepan, top back up to 500 mls. Add the cornflour and the remaining milk and simmer on very gentle heat for 5-6 minutes.
  6. Grease a medium sized baking dish and place one layer of lasagne sheets to cover the base. Spoon one third of the leeks and mushrooms onto the lasagne. Add one third of the chicken pieces and 2 ladles of the sauce, sprinkle with one third of the grated Parmesan. Add the 2nd layer of lasagne, repeating the process and then the 3rd layer, again repeated the process.
  7. Add one more layer of lasagne on the top and then the remaining sauce. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
  8. Cover with foil and bake in oven for 30 minutes, until golden and bubbling.
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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard

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