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From the OMNIA oven

Rigatoni Lasagne

by Doreen Düe | Food blogger with van

I don't think I'm telling you anything new when I write: we love casseroles, lasagne and simply everything that is baked with cheese! That's why I have a special pasta dish for you today that is a fusion of lasagne and casserole: Rigatoni Lasagne!
Once again, I stole the idea from Kuriositätenladen and modified it to my liking. The result was delicious and I love the look of the rigatoni lasagne when it is cut. It makes every foodie's heart beat faster.

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Smoke and fungi

Setting up the Rigatoni semi-cook looks like more work than it really is, firstly because the pasta sticks nicely together so that they stay in place and secondly, I like to do something like that. Here you can think, for example, about what you write in the next blog post:). By the way, I used small Rigatoni from my stockpile, and with the larger ones, setting it up is of course even faster.

I discovered and cooked the veggie bogies with mushrooms for the first time years ago at the valuable Tim Mälzer. Mr Mälzer dries mushrooms for the sauce in the oven, I simply use dried mushrooms, then I save myself the detour. Something like that simply belongs in the motorhome supply ;). I have already replaced the mushrooms with lentils or chopped bean boulettes - so the recipe is a good basis for various veggie beans.

As mentioned before, I have discovered ˋsmokeˋ for the blue box kitchen. At the beginning in the form of smoked salt "Hickory" and smoked paprika powder (Pimenton de la Vera), but now I mostly use liquid smoke. Since you only need a drop of it, the 100ml bottle lasts a very long time. ˋLiquid Smokeˋ is made all "naturally", if you want to know more about it, click here.

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Ingredients

350 g Rigatoni
100 - 150 g Cheese
Bechamel sauce (recipe link)

For approx. 550 g mushroom bolognese

25 g dried mushrooms
1 carrot
1 onion
400 g passata
200 ml vegetable stock
1 garlic clove
2 tbsp olive oil
2 bay leaves
1/2 tsp rosemary
1/2 tsp thyme
1 drop of liquid smoke
Salt
Pepper

1
For the mushroom bolognese, pour 200 ml of hot vegetable stock over the dried mushrooms and set aside for 15 minutes. 
Then drain the mushrooms well, but catch the stock, it will be needed later. Then chop the mushrooms into small pieces.
2
Snip the onion small and sauté it in a pot with 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
3
Rasps the carrot, cooks it together with the finely chopped garlic and mushrooms and the cooked onion pieces and sears everything for 2 minutes. 
Deglaze with the mushroom stock and stir in the strained tomatoes. Add the rosemary, thyme and bay leaf and simmer for 30 minutes. Take the pot off the cooker, stir in 1 drop of liquid smoke and season with salt, pepper and possibly a little sugar.
4
Prepare the béchamel sauce.
5
Cook the pasta in salted water until very firm to the bite! They are baked again in the Omnia and then cook again, but should not be mushy at the end.
Drain the Rigatoni and place it upright in your Omnia baking tin.
6
Carefully spread the bolognese over the upright pasta. 
Make sure that the sauce not only stays on top, but also fills the gaps well.
7
Place the Omnia oven on the stove, heat it for minutes and then bake the rigatoni lasagne for 30 minutes.
Now, as always, it's time to enjoy! Because pasta au gratin with this spicy bolognese and creamy béchamel sauce is an absolute soul food!

Your Doreen

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I took this rigatoni lasagne in Portugal near Praia Falesia.
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