Lasagne with cooked ham and white sauce

This recipe for lasagne with cooked ham will enable you to discover a quick and more delicately flavoured version than the traditional recipe you are already familiar with. Follow these instructions and, in a few minutes, you will be ready to serve the traditional dish Italians love to eat on special occasions, and then sit back and enjoy the praise. If you are short for time, you can use ready-made sheets of egg pasta which do not even need to be pre-boiled. Try this perfect Sunday lunch recipe!

The Recipe:

• To make your oven-baked lasagne with ham, start by making the white sauce: cook the sieved flour and butter in a pan over a low heat.
• Mix with a hand whisk and pour on the milk very slowly in a thin trickle continuing to whisk all the time to avoid the formation of lumps. Add salt and nutmeg, bring to the boil and cook for about 10 minutes until the white sauce thickens.
• While you are cooking the sauce, never stop mixing: in this way, you will prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pan or burning. When the white sauce is ready, remove it from the heat and let it cool: in the meantime, cook the lasagne sheets in plenty of boiling water for about 5 minutes.
• Spread a spoonful of white sauce on the bottom of an oven dish and lay the first layer of pre-boiled pasta on top. Then, follow up with another layer of white sauce and the slices of ham (Dolce Vita Montorsi). Add some of the diced mozzarella cheese and cover with more pasta sheets.
• Make as many layers as you like and, when you have finished, sprinkle the top with plenty of grated cheese to make it turn crisp and brown. Oven bake for 30 minutes at 180°C.