Chicken Lasagna Recipe | Lasagna Recipe
Chicken Lasagna Recipe, a simple easy to put together lasagna made with chicken. This baked lasagna is made with no cook lasagna sheets, meat sauce, creamy white béchamel sauce and mozzarella cheese. This lasagna can be assembled two days in advance, bake at the time of serving for quick weeknight meal just like my red sauce pasta and white sauce pasta. We usually serve a generous slice of lasagna with side salad for a satisfying meal. But you can enjoy it with garlic bread. Learn how to make best chicken lasagna with step by step pictures and video.
Equipment
- Cooking pot, Whisk
- 9x13 ceramic baking dish
- Aluminium foil and parchment paper
- OTG or Oven
Ingredients
- 12 sheets No Cook Lasagna Sheets or as needed
- 2 cups Mozzarella Cheese grated
For Bechamel Sauce
- ¼ cup Butter
- 3 tablespoon Olive Oil
- 100 grams All Purpose Flour
- 1 litre Milk
- 1 teaspoon White Pepper Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 2 teaspoon Salt
For Chicken Tomato Gravy
- 3 tablespoon Olive Oil
- 3 tablespoon Garlic chopped finely
- 1 large Onion chopped finely
- 2 no Green Chillies chopped finely
- 1 large Carrot chopped finely
- 1 no Capsicum or Green Bell Pepper chopped finely
- 3 tablespoon Tomato paste
- 2 no Boneless Chicken Breast chopped finely
- 2 cups Tomato Puree or Marinara Sauce
- 1 teaspoon Dried Oregano
- 1 teaspoon Dried Basil
- 2 teaspoon Red Chilli Flakes
- 1 teaspoon Salt to taste
- 2 teaspoon Sugar
- 3 tablespoon Coriander leaves or Parsley
Instructions
- For making meat sauce. Heat olive oil in a pan, add onions, garlic and green chillies. Saute this for a minute. Now add in carrots and bell peppers and stir fry for 2 to 3 minutes. Now add in tomato paste and cook that for 4 to 5 minutes till the flavours deepens. Now add in chicken along with oregano, basil, red chilli flakes, salt and sugar. Now add in marinara sauce and mix well. Cover and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. Add in chopped parsley and mix well.
- Heat butter and olive oil in a pan, add flour and use a whisk to mix the flour into the butter. Cook the flour in the butter for 3 to 4minutes till raw smell leaves. now take the sauce pan from the heat, whisk in cold milk slowly so there is no lumps and keep cooking and mixing till it thickens. Now add in salt, white pepper powder, ground nutmeg and mix well. This is your bechamel sauce.
- Preheat oven to 220 degree C ( 428 degree F).
- Take a baking dish, spread meat sauce in the bottom. Place 3 lasagna sheets, spread meat sauce, Spoon some of the white sauce, sprinkle with mozzarella cheese, now place lasagna sheets on top and repeat this two more times. The top layer should be lasagna sheets with white sauce and mozzarella cheese. Cover the baking dish with a layer of parchment paper, followed with aluminium foil and cook for 40 mins in a 220 degree C ( 428 degree F) preheated oven. In the last 5 minutes of baking, remove the foil from the top, set the oven top broil mode and broil for 3 to 5 minutes.
- Remove the baking dish from oven. Allow it to rest on the counter for at least 30 minutes. Now slice and serve the lasagna.
Video
Notes
- Make sure the lasagna sheets you used doesn’t require any cooking. Some brands needs pre cooking, so pick one that doesn’t need pre cooking.
- You can use minced chicken instead of chopped chicken.
- Instead of puréed tomatoes, you can use passata or marinara sauce.
- Along with carrots and bell pepper, you can use one chopped celery.
- Any of your favourite seasoning blend like Italian seasoning can be used in the chicken filling.
- The chicken filling has to be slightly thick and gravy like, because it helps with the cooking of the lasagna sheets.
Meal Prep Ideas
You can make ahead the meat sauce and the béchamel sauce in advance and store in fridge upto 3 days. Once the lasagna is assembled in the baking dish, you can cover it well and place in fridge upto 2 days. Bake straight from the fridge when needed.Serving & Storage
We usually serve a generous slice of lasagna with side salad for a satisfying meal. But you can enjoy it with garlic bread. Leftovers can be stored in an air tight container in fridge upto 3 days. Reheat in microwave or oven before serving.Nutrition
Serving: 1servingsCalories: 733kcalCarbohydrates: 76gProtein: 25gFat: 37gSaturated Fat: 15gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 16gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 71mgSodium: 2001mgPotassium: 881mgFiber: 5gSugar: 17gVitamin A: 3622IUVitamin C: 14mgCalcium: 464mgIron: 4mg
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