Lasagne recipe kit

Package up a homemade lasagne kit to give as a gift to those who need a culinary confidence boost or keen cooks who need a break from the kitchen

Now make the béchamel sauce. In a large saucepan, melt the butter over a medium heat. Add the flour and mix really well. Add the milk gradually until you have a smooth sauce then add the bay...

Ingredients

• 250g pack dried lasagne sheets
• 2 x 400g tin whole cherry tomatoes (I used Biona organic)
• 2 x 187ml bottle red wine
• 2 x 80g packs grated Parmesan Parmesan parm-ee-zanParmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
• 4 tbsp dried wild mushrooms
• 2 tsp fennel seeds Fennel seeds feh-nell seedsA dried seed that comes from the fennel herb, fennel seeds look like cumin seeds, only greener,…
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp paprika Paprika pa-preek-ahA spice that's central to Hungarian cuisine, paprika is made by drying a particular type of…
• 1 tsp light brown sugar
• 1 tsp dried oregano Oregano or-ee-gar-noClosely related to marjoram, of which it is the wild equivalent, oregano has a coarser, more…
• 4 tbsp olive oil Olive oil ol-iv oylProbably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
• 2 onions Onion un-yunOnions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia… , sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, crushed
• 100g butter Butter butt-errButter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
• 100g plain flour
• 1l whole milk
• 2 bay leaves
• grating of nutmeg
• sticky tape
• string or ribbon and wrapping paper
• gift tags and a pen, for labelling
• 2 x 18 x 25 x 6cm lasagne dishes
• 2 x 135ml jars
• 2 x 500ml jars