Minced meat + Macaroni (attn Qatari ladies)

Wow, ngourlay, you are a multi-talented guy!

Mandi

Thankyou dear for the details but would like some qatari lady cook to help us in sorting this as that would be easy to cook :P

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CONFUSE ............ if you cannot convince!

There's a cheffy way to prepare individual lasagne, which is nice for a change. You make a ragu fairly dry, and your bechamel in the usual way. Cook small sheets of fresh pasta (egg pasta) in boiling salted water.

Instead of baking it in the oven, layer up the lasagne in a pastry ring. Gratinate the top under a grill.

Anyway, there are a thousand variations on pasta al forno, but only lasagne seems to have made the jump into Qatar's italian restaurants. You should really buy Locatelli's book if you want to know good combinations of pasta and meat sauce.

consciouseffort when u find the recipe m waiting for my dish :)

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No no lasagne is a different thing this is clearly something else I think its like they prepare both of them separately then put a layer of macaroni then on that minced meat & so on

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CONFUSE ............ if you cannot convince!

It's a Qatari specialty, known as basta al forno (pronounced from the Arabic as lass-an-ya).

The origins of this dish are lost in the mists of time, but experts in Qatari heritage have traced it back to the families of pearl fishermen, who mixed camel meat with a dough made of unleavened bread.

The famous Qatari chef, Loc Al-Telli gives a few variations in his encyclopedic tome on local cookery: Made in Qatar.

Sounds yummie already...