You don’t need to boil lasagna noodles before putting them in the baking dish. Regular lasagna noodles, they don’t need to be the weird already soft ones. People overcomplicate lasagna. You can literally just dump a bunch of ingredients in a baking dish and it’s gonna be good. Sure it’s not gonna be the most gourmet lasagna you’ve ever tasted, but who cares? I don’t. I prioritize ease and time saving when home cooking. I would boil myself and then climb in the oven before I would ever waste my time parboiling pasta.
It’s not actually all that difficult or expensive and the results are seriously a lot better. You wouldn’t expect it and i didn’t until i worked at a place that made their own noodles and i can’t go back. It very much makes the whole dish like a solid 30% better. When you taste the difference you’ll know.
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You don’t need to boil lasagna noodles before putting them in the baking dish. Regular lasagna noodles, they don’t need to be the weird already soft ones. People overcomplicate lasagna. You can literally just dump a bunch of ingredients in a baking dish and it’s gonna be good. Sure it’s not gonna be the most gourmet lasagna you’ve ever tasted, but who cares? I don’t. I prioritize ease and time saving when home cooking. I would boil myself and then climb in the oven before I would ever waste my time parboiling pasta.
If you’re making your own lasagne sheets from homemade pasta dough, you’ve got to blanch them at least, otherwise it’s just going to be a chewy mess.
fair enough but I would also boil myself and then climb in the oven before I made fresh pasta from scratch
It’s not actually all that difficult or expensive and the results are seriously a lot better. You wouldn’t expect it and i didn’t until i worked at a place that made their own noodles and i can’t go back. It very much makes the whole dish like a solid 30% better. When you taste the difference you’ll know.