Ragu, if you are following Meal Plan 7, use 1/3 of the ragu for this recipe

If you are not following Meal Plan 7, make a ragu with these ingredients.

• Sauté the onion until transparent.
  100 g onions
• Add the mince, bacon and carrot. Sauté gently, covered, until the vegetables are soft.
  166 g beef mince, 20 g bacon, 100 g carrots
• Add the red lentils, tomatoes and about half the amount of the weight of tomatoes in water. Simmer gently for 15 minutes.
  40 g red lentils, 133 g tomatoes
• If there is too much moisture in the pan, boil quicker until the level is right.
• Season well with salt and pepper.

Lasagna

• Put the smaller amount of flour of the flour in a saucepan and mix to a paste with a little of the milk.
• Add the rest of the milk and whisk well to incorporate. Now heat the milk mixture either in a saucepan or in the microwave until it thickens.
• Season with salt and pepper. Add a little mustard if you have it.

Pasta

• Put the larger amount of flour in a bowl and add enough cold water to make a pastry like dough. Knead a little.
• Divide into 3. Roll out one third to the thickness of a credit card and approximately the shape of your dish.
• If you don't want to make pasta like this, use dried pasta sheets
• In an ovenproof dish, the one I used is 9"/23cm x 7.5"/18cm,  place one third of the ragu, top with one quarter of the white sauce.
• Cover with the rolled out pasta.
• Roll out another third of the pasta dough.
• Repeat... Ragu, white sauce, pasta

  Repeat... Ragu, white sauce, pasta
• Now top the final layer of pasta with the last quarter of the white sauce. Everything else is cooked, we just need to cook the pasta through.
• Bake in a medium oven for 30-35 minutes until the top is browned.

Optional additions

• If you have any Parmesan, grana padano or cheddar, sprinkle a tiny bit on top of each layer of white sauce.

  I added a dollop of grainy mustard to ours, otherwise, it was the recipe here. I wanted to see what it would taste like.

  Because of the restriction of ingredients on the meal plan, we are missing butter in the bechamel and cheese in the layers. I could taste that they weren't there, but it was a tasty dinner anyway. Filling and satisfying. If you have them available, add a big knob of butter to the bechamel, and a sprinkle of cheese on top of the ragu in each layer as you assemble the lasagna.