LASAGNETTA WITH ASPARAGUS, LEEKS & PROVOLONE
Ingredients
- 400 g oven-ready lasagne sheets
- 1 half-moon cheese piccante (provolone)
- 1 handful of asparagus
- 1 leek
- 50 g butter
- 150 liquid béchamel sauce
- black pepper
- salt
Preparation
Slightly peel the asparagus along the stem using a potato peeler and, bending it between the fingers, break it off at the point where the stem is hardest (you will notice that it will break on its own). Cut up the stems into small disks and leave the tops whole.
Meanwhile stew the finely sliced leek in a saucepan together with the butter, add a little water in order to keep the temperature low until you get a creamy mixture and then season to taste with salt and pepper.
Parboil the asparagus disks for one minute, strain them and add them to the leek.
In the same water now parboil the asparagus tops.
In a buttered Pyrex baking tray, assemble your lasagne alternating the pasta sheets, the leek/asparagus/butter mixture, the grated Provolone, the asparagus tips and the béchamel sauce.
In the same water now parboil the asparagus tops.
In a buttered Pyrex baking tray, assemble your lasagne alternating the pasta sheets, the leek/asparagus/butter mixture, the grated Provolone, the asparagus tips and the béchamel sauce.
Top the lasagne with a generous sprinkling of grated Provolone and bake it in the oven at 180°C for 25 minutes approx.
Rest for 10 minutes, then serve.
Rest for 10 minutes, then serve.
Ideal accompaniment:
TARTUFO BIANCO - white wine Agricola Marrone - ALBA
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Tartufo bianco evokes emotions...
It is enjoyed at its best with a group of good friends and it matches wonderfully traditional dishes. It is also ideal as aperitif wine. To be tasted at 8-10°C.
Tartufo bianco is a young, low alcohol and refreshing wine. It is tastes at its best when paired to light dishes, starters, vegetables, plain pasta, fresh cheeses or as aperitif.
The colour is straw yellow with slightly green reflections. At the nose notes of flowers and fresh fruits, give it a pleasantly smooth and fresh taste.