I’m Zain, better known among friends as Zee. I’m 26 and although cooking is seldom a hobby for people of my age, it was only after I completed my Engineering and was jobless for around five months that I developed interest in cooking by watching cooking shows on tv! I have watched and tried many dishes and have sharpened my skills according to my own taste and also by continuously thinking of ways to improve the usual recipe and create something new. So today I give you my customized Chicken Lasagna recipe which is quite popular among my family and is one of my personal favorites. There’s an interesting story related to this Recipe. During my job interview at the Telecom Company I now work for, the HR interviewer asked me about my hobbies. I told her how much i loved cooking. So she went on asking me about any recipe of my liking and I told her this whole recipe of Chicken Lasagna just like that! So this dish will always remain a fond memory as it helped me get my first job =) Here you go!

 

Serves: 3-4 people
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 35 mins

Chicken Lasagna - Ingredients:
• Chicken mince ½ kg or can be chopped into small pieces because that will also do
• Lasagna sheet 1 packet
• Mozzarella cheese 1 packet (grated)
• Onions 2 (small)
• Capsicums 2
• Tomatoes 3
• Garlic and Ginger paste 1 tsp
• Milk ½ liter
• Tomato paste ½ cup
• Plain white flour ½ cup (Maida)
• Oil ¼ cup
• Black pepper powder 1 ½ tsp
• Salt to taste
• Soya Sauce
• Chinese Salt
• Butter (Desi or Margarine)
• Red Chilli ½ tsp

Chicken Lasagna – Method:
1. Finely slice onion, capsicum, tomato
2. Then heat oil in a pan and sauté finely sliced garlic& ginger paste until it turns golden brown.
3. Now add chicken mince to it and when mince is cooked, add half of the chopped vegetables.
4. Also add salt, black pepper powder, red chilli,tomato paste and soya sauce.
5. Mix together until all ingredients are well combined and cover the pot for 5 minutes so that chicken gets cooked properly on slow heat
6. Boil lasagna sheets in hot water and keep aside.
7. In other pan, add butter and plain white flour and fry it until its color is changed (Shouldn’t be brown) and then take it off the stove and cool it
8. Add milk into it after the mixture has cooled off because adding milk in hot mixture would result in clots in the final chicken lasagna
9. Cook it till it thickens
10. Layer lasagna sheet in a wide oven proof dish and oil it so that lasagna doesn’t stick from the bottom, pour white sauce and add a layer of mincemeat and little grated cheese
11. Repeat the layers so that all the sauce, mincemeat, cheese and lasagna sheets are layered up.
12. Then top it with grated mozzarella cheese and bake in a preheated oven at 200 c for 8 to 10 minutes.
13. When cheese looks golden, tempting Chicken Lasagna Cake is ready to serve.