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Lasagne Emergency!!!!

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  • 04-03-2012 11:21am
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    Medicine333
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    Hello All!:)

    I have to make Lasagne today for the family, but the recipes calls for 455g of ricotta cheese and I don't have any!!:eek::eek::eek:

    What is a suitable substitute, if any? Cottage cheese perhaps??

    Maybe Mozzarella, cream cheese??

    Please help me out, I need to start making this in the next 90 minutes!!:eek:


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    Mrs Fox
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    Cottage cheese is a perfect substitute


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    Medicine333
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    Mrs Fox wrote: »
    Cottage cheese is a perfect substitute

    Thank you so much, Mrs.Fox! I thought it was a longshot expecting an answer before 12, so you've really helped me!!:):)

    Cottage cheese it is!:)


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    Honey-ec
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    I use cottage cheese instead of ricotta in pretty much everything. Taste & texture virtually the same, calorie count significantly reduced.

    Spinach & cottage cheese canelloni - drrrrrooooooolllllll.


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    vibe666
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    if you are making lasagne and it's asking for ricotta, you can bet it's an american recipe, they seem to be the only ones who would do something like that to a lasagne and personally i really didn't like it the one time i had it like that.

    if i'm making a lasagne, i start with a simple béchamel (white) sauce with equal parts of butter & flour and then add hot milk. that's pretty much how it's done in italy (and pretty much everywhere outside of the US).

    as a personal touch (because i'm a naughty boy), i usually add a nice cheese or two to it, something like a mature cheddar, or a nice smoked applewood for some extra flavour and maybe some parmesan and a good crack of black pepper depending on my mood, although that would be less traditional. :)

    just out of curiosity, how did it turn out?


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    dibkins
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    I find those american lasagnes so dry with the cheese. i make mine with tomato sauce and bechemal and then flood the sides with tomato sauce. Nomnomnom.


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    loveisdivine
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    +1 for the bechamel. I too find it really dry when they use a cream cheese instead of white sauce.


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    Medicine333
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    Isn't it disgraceful!! I'm only getting back to ye now!:o

    Thank you very much for your help!:)

    I amazingly was able to get ricotta cheese after all, and it looked lovely! The lasagne was nice, but I will revert back to my original recipe, as it was tastier and uncomplicated!

    Happy Easter, by the way!:)


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