Alex lasagna is something I created when I was a teenager and had no money, and I’m documenting this solely for fun. I do not recommend you try this. Back then, all I had was a small tub of tomato sauce, some cheese, and only a few slices of actual lasagna pasta, not even close to enough to do all the layers properly.
Originally, the extra random pasta (bows, penne, whatever else was in the cupboard) was just there to compensate for the missing lasagna strips, a broke teenager’s improvisation more than an actual technique. For whatever reason, I kept adding extra random pasta even after I started having the right amount of proper lasagna strips, and at some point it just became the weird, unnecessary signature of the dish.
(Experiment 219) Alex lasagna
Ingredients
- 400-500 g mozzarella cheese
- ~400g marinara sauce* you can use bolognese or whichever you have
- 6 strips of lasagna pasta
- a handful of pasta whichever leftover you have rotini, bows.penne
- parmigiano reggiano
- Salt
Instructions
- I like to blend a bit more the sauce from Costco so there are no chunks. Be careful not to blend too much or you will end up with a watery sauce.
- Preheat oven to 425
- Heat on high a large pot with water. Once it boils, throw a tablespoon of salt in the water and add all the pasta. Cook for 5 minutes.
- While the pasta is cooking, grate your cheese.
- When the timer is up on the pasta, drain the water
- Using a Pyrex, put a thin layer of sauce on the bottom, and add 2 strips of lasagna to make a bottom. Add another thin layer of sauce and cheese.
- Add another layer of lasagna pasta + all the random pasta you cooked. Cover with sauce( a bit more sauce here but not too much) and cheese.
- Add the last layer of lasagna pasta and another thin layer of sauce. Then put all the mozzarella cheese on top.
- Grate a generous amount of parmesan on top and put in the oven for 20-30 minutes on the bottom rack.
- Itβs ready when the top is broiled.
Notes
You can make 2-3 lasagna simultaneously and freeze them. Just wait till they cooled down, cut them in pieces and put them in plastic wrap. To reheat if you can put it in the oven or if you are in a rush for a quick lunch, blast it in the microwave for 2m30.