Yeah, I might try this (sans ham, wtf?) and slap on a couple dollops of herbed ricotta. I make a pretty good lasagna, but it's so much effort/ time-consuming, so I will make a lasagna bowl by using elbows or rotini. Different mouth feel but tastes the same and gets the job done.

I worked in an Italian kitchen once and the chef used to put layers of ham in the lasagna

It's a regional thing. My Nonna did that too.

Oh that's interesting now I feel stupid

Don't worry, I thought the ham was the weird part as well. 😅

I have never seen it before either 🤷‍♂️

I mean now that I think about it it doesn’t sound bad. But still.

Wait until you see hard boiled eggs being put in lasagna.

That has to he illegal surely??

Totally agree, i feel NPC right now

Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase Lasagna Hams

Its very common in Brazil

My Nonna uses Spam

Mine just cut to the chase and used straight up chicken feet.

Oh yea? My other Nonna uses tripe.

Oh yea? \*My\* nonna uses cement!

MY NONNA DOESNT EVEN MAKE LASAGNA

Useless bitch

MY NONNA ISN'T EVEN ALIVE! I miss her.

same 😢

Mine used spinach instead of meat, and cottage cheese instead of ricotta. Was still good, but not even remotely the same.

So it's almost like a cross between lasagna and Greek spanakopita?  Actually doesn't sound that bad.

What about Mortadella?

What did you just call me?

Mort A. D'ella

my nonna drinks stout

I was born in Brazil, where my parents lived, it was expected to have ham in the lasagnas

Would a lasagna bowl just be pasta Bolognese

No, not at all. A common bolognese recipe would be as follows: Mirepoix (carrots, celery, garlic, onion) sautéed until translucent then you add wine to deglaze the pan. Add your mixture of pork and beef, you can vary this is as much as you like. I used to use fresh Italian sausage from a local butcher. Cook till browned Add tomato sauce and herbs (thyme, rosemary, bay leaves) Now here’s where the real distinction comes in, traditional Bolognese has Milk in it (and obviously wouldn’t have anything like Ricotta or Mozz unless you decided to put some on top I guess) Add Milk, Vegetable or Chicken Stock. Simmer for about 2 hours. (Obviously also add salt and pepper as you go)

Hot damn, bolognese. Seems like you appreciate the dish, so I will annoy you with my anecdote. I've been getting more into cooking and now using *especially good* ingredients. High quality where it counts. Homemade bolognese using high tier ingredients, just tips it over the chart of deliciousness. That was my first time making it and, since it went so well and the results were better than some solid local restaurants, I made another attempt about a month later. BUT cut some corners on the quality of some ingredients and kept everything else the same. It was a disappointment after the first one. Don't get me wrong, still better than the bland Dutch casseroles my mom made when we were growing up, but just not on the same level. TLDR; Go down the road of "quality ingredients" very cautiously. However, it will make you emmensely proud of your newfound skills at producing better product than some local restaurants who charge $50/plate for a bowl of bolognese.

So I’ve worked in restaurants over half my life. Quality is important but what is more important is how you handle it. A lot of French cuisine started from having to take cheap ingredients and create complex sauces and dishes and create techniques to bring out the most flavor out of whatever you can find.

That is VERY true, too. Those bland Dutch casseroles are actual delicious, all you have to add is some sort of spice seasonings! They are some of now go-to pity casseroles for people, haha. Good freeze ability, good reheat ability, simple, and generally all "safe" for picky eaters.

Everything this person said yea, but you can kick it up a notch by using a large can of crushed tomatoes (San Marzano ideally) instead of premade tomato sauce. A slow simmered Dutch oven of homemade bolognese sauce is a delight to taste.

The only issue I see with this is the noodles may not cook all the way through or they could potentially take too long to cook in the sauce. I've never done noodles like that though so idk. You could certainly do a lasagna in a pan though. Cook noodles in the pan, drain, then layer everything in the same pan to simmer. Noodles in water wouldn't take long and you can simmer just till the cheese melts.

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I’m the opposite, I could never get into bechamel lasagna. The ricotta’s texture is what I show up for.

I made the ricotta version, didn’t get it. Bechamel is the way.

Disliking because ricotta gang

I do the same with mini penne. Throw some shredded mozzarella, a little grated Parmesan and a couple of dollops of ricotta and I'm good to go!

There's a dish that was a staple as my kids grew up. We called it 'not lasagne'. Not sure if it's an actual known dish, but it's cooked pasta (elbow, penne, etc) mixed into a bolognaise sauce, then topped with lots of cheese sauce. Bake with grated cheese on top. It has all the components of a lasagne but ...it's not. Yummity yum yum.

Instead of ham, try mini pepperoni. Especially if you have kids.

Brazilian lasagna. Actually really good (just make sure you don't get salted ham then salt the shit out of the sauce like my MIL did)

In theory, could you get salted ham, under salt the rest, and rely on the ham to salt the dish?

Absolutely you could! She was visiting from Brazil so I don't think she was aware that the ham was already fairly salty, and the food she makes is already, generally, very salty. So this was like... Sodium explosion.

[insert video of sodium exploding in water here]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5UsRiPOFLjk

remind me why this is bad again, cause i just got hungry

Fr this looks awesome and now i want to try it

unfamiliar food = stupid food in this sub, especially if its a different variant of something people here know.

I'm no geographer but this doesn't seem that bad besides the slices of ham. Is it Lasagna? No, but will it taste the same? very likely. Plus there is no risk of burning the bottom layer of lasagna.

In Brazil it’s common to put ham in lasagna, I’ve eaten all my life this way :( it’s good I swear

Now that I think about it we put ham on pizza so it may not be that bad.

Wait that's not normal?

Prosciutto is ham and you can go to Italy and buy pasta and pizza with prosciutto on them.

I think ham would be good in lasagna 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have occasionally put ham layer on my lasagne. It’s a good twist on a classic.

Yep, family is Brazilian. My dad used to make it with ham and a sort of creamy tomato sauce instead. It was so fucking good. I really should try recreating that, mmmm. It was a really great alternative. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for traditional lasagna too. But why not mix it up sometimes?

I like my lasagna a little burnt on the bottom with crispy dry lasagna noodles that peel off like a sheet, and straight from the fridge the next day. Anyone got a hack to speed this up?

Alcohol.

Lasagne is actually the shape of the pasta, which is flat sheets. So yes, this is a lasagna. But it’s not a “Lasagne al forno” which is the classic dish we often call Lasagna. When I was in Italy we ordered Lasagne with pesto and got sheets of pasta seemingly boiled and then randomly mixed with a home made pesto. It wasn’t even layered. It was delicious though!

Exactly. Sans ham, this doesn't look half bad. Seems like a nice alternative.

First of all, shut up 😂😂😂 it’s fucking delicious, it’s a Brazilian style lasagna

In Brazil (where I live) it's very common to use ham and it absofuckinglutely does not taste bad. I have never eaten lasagna without ham and I actually thought that it was a common thing to do in other countries. Besides the cooking process, this is not stupid, you just don't like ham in your lasagna.

OP probably thinks this is the shitty ham gringos have that are square and comes in a can when in reality it's slices of a delicious ham that's selled here in Brazil and it goes very well with lasagna :)

I'm a gringo, your ham sounds delicious!

I mean if there is no ricotta, then it is not lasagne🤷‍♂️ Also ham in Lasagna italians would be very sad. This is a good looking dish but not a lasagna to be sure.

r/ItHadToBeBrazil

That doesnt look bad, nor stupid

Welcome to the sub

We call it "lasanha de panela" or "pot lasagna". It's not bad but it's only time saving.

This looks fire af. I'd eat the fuck out of this. This isn't stupid in the slightest.

Seen a lot worse on this sub. I would eat it.

This looks good and easy to make. Definitely not stupid.

Os gringos não sabem a superioridade do presunto na lasanha

Nos ensine

Irmão, confia em mim, bota exatamente os mesmo ingredientes do vídeo na lasanha e ela fica perfeita.

How is everyone caught up on the ham and not the fact that there's barely any pasta in there? That scoop at the end was just sauce and ham

Learn culture... Delete ts bro. The food isn't stupid, I think it's just you tbh.

This is how my wife makes it. She's from South America. The only difference is that she add bechamel.

If my grandma had wheels

Lashamgne.

Brazil never disappoints.

I lived with a family in my early 20s as a nanny and their grandma was from Brazil. Best effing cook I've ever met. And my own grandparents were Greeks with great cooking skills haha

I love how you're okay with the way this was prepared but not with the addition of ham Honestly this looks fine, I've never prepared lasagna but heard it takes a while AND you can burn the bottom layer, this solves both problems simultaneously and the end result actually looks good, I wouldn't say this is stupid, more like lazy or time saving

what’s so wrong about putting sliced ham? i do understand the disliking of the cooking method

Technically, it is. The lasagna is the big sheets of pasta. What you have *with* the pasta is up to you.

It's a brazilian video and in here It's common to put ham in the lasagna so...

It’s lazy lasagna. Not the end of the world.

This is the least stupid one of these I've seen

This is a bastardized version of the real thing, but I gotta tell ya... I'd definitely have a spoonful.

Some of the vids posted here are 100% food I would eat, not sure if growing up poor has anything to do with that.

Kinda looks like a lazy lasagna recipe. I mean, it's pasta, sauce, meat, and cheese. It's just not made through the excruciating process of stacking lagers upon layers. Looking kinda good too

I agree. That looks like the kind of dish I have the energy to cook, after a long day at work.

For sure. Plot stuff down in the pan, add as you go, then enjoy. Ezpz! Not all food should be "Instagram food porn" level. Simple can be very good, in many ways it often is best.

Technically speaking he is using a pasta called lasagne. So.....

I would absolutely eat the hell outta that

Usually don't eat lasagna but this looks alright.

Shut up it's really good 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Yeah I don't know what the fuck this is but it isn't lasagna but I want some like right now

That surprisingly held its shape well after cutting

Im intrigued by how easy this looks, I can't lie

The only thing stupid about this is it likely will take longer than 5 minutes to make

Looks like what goes for lasagna if you order it at a sports bar in Alberta lol, basically instead of making pans of lasagna and portioning them, they'll just build it in a disposable pie tin but there's no layering or nothing, just noodles, bolognese and maybe some other ingredients, sprinkle cheese and put in the high temp oven. It's lazy but it's actually delicious.

I've seen this. I prefer this. I hate when I order lasagna and it's a week old thing they portioned out after it was made, frozen, and then reheated. Better to make it to order like the bar or only get it from a decent Italian place that makes it fresh daily.

This looks like a struggle meal if i’ve ever seen one.

Theyre not right... but its not wrong either... kinda like a new move in chess, if it works it works but 90% of the time its a blunder

I need to try this

It basically is

Yum 🙈I’m sorry!

This doesn't look terrible. The ham is a little strange but not bad

I don’t hate this one

That looks pretty banging. Don’t really care what you call it.

10/10 would destroy

Ham? No lasagna, just ttash

Wait, did you typo or is Ttash a food I have never heard of that is essentially lasagna with ham?

New invented word by me

This is clearly garbage

I’m having a tough time determining weather the singer of the background music sounds like a grown woman or Mickey Mouse

Put some respect on Pablo Vittar's name 😤

It's LasanHAM Looks like a great why to make hamburger helper pasta in meat sauce

😳😳😳

My dad just tosses in normal egg noodles. Turns out good

Probably took more than 5 minutes.

i mean, i grew up on hamburger helper and that's pretty much what this is just with extra cheese

It's stupid because it's rich people hamburger helper

Probably the closest you can get in a super short time frame, so not bad. But it does need ricotta or something between the layers.

You know… I might try something like this with some changes. No ham for me, a broil in the oven at the end, and a little less sauce. Would smash.

lasagna is my fave food this does hurt my soul a lil bit that lunchmeat ham and shredded cheese are not good get some decent cheese and meat for a lasagna and build it properly its so worth it

If it had bechamel it would be just like a pastiche my Venezuelan homie makes.

Why is this stupid? I never thought about cooking a lasagna this way... and it honestly looks like it works. The only part that doesn't work (to me) is the deli ham... which would probably turn an off white and gross looking when you cook it.

This isn’t stupid if you want a fast lasagna. They should use a cast iron pan and then throw the whole thing in oven for 10 mins to get a decent crust.

Cest plus longe temps que 5 minutes? (This is bullshit. There's no way that's 5 minutes)

Definitely not lasagna but am definitely having this for dinner

I'll eat that.

Swap out some ingredients and it’s probably be ok. The ham wouldn’t be hammin’ in my book.

I had some with ham, others with salami, pretty fire

Ham lol

I never thought about doing it in a pan. I would need to change a little bit my recipe but I doubt it would taste better this way.

It's not traditional, but it's also not, not lasagna.

I'm going to go fight somebody over this. Who's coming with me?

Anyone else think the pasta-to-sauce ratio is way too low? This doesn't sound horrible based on the ingredients. Not to go all Italians Mad at Food™ (I am both Italian and Portuguese, lol) but calling this lasagna feels like a real stretch.

It's not a lasagna It's a lasan-ha

im not even italian but for once this subreddit made me squirm

5 minutes? The pasta sheets require at least 14 minutes if you were to just boil them in sauce.

That’s like the old Stoffers microwave lasagna 🤢

This is ballsogna

Did they learn that in Italy?

I once tried explaining to a Brazilian that hamburgers don’t need to have ham on them. We had to agree to disagree.

Unsure about ham, would swap for spicy Italian sausage and add ricotta but I would eat this. Week night, tough day at work and you need some comfort food but don’t want to wait an hour or more to cook a real one I can see this scratching the itch

I've used lasagna noodles this way. Basically no spaghetti in the house, use what you got.

I need to try this for pasta and lasagna doesn't look like it would cook for both of em but I have to see for myself

Except for the ham, those are lasagna ingredients and it looks very tasty. Someone offers me a plate of that with a salad and some garlic bread, oh man, I'd be ever so happy

I’m sorry but what’s going on with that ham there ? I could handle bending the rules and cutting corners but that HAM ?

Not lasagne but looks good but maybe lose the random ham

I'd try it.

That's probably the "lasanha" and not lasagne

Eh, it works

Do they not know lasagne needs to be oven baked and not pan fried

MY LASAGA

I know this is stupid but I'd still fuck this up lol

Not gonna lie; this looks pretty good. Not phenomenal, but highly edible.

You could get wacked if the wrong Italian grandma sees this

Would still smash Would really smash with Italian snausage

Yeah overall this is a quick way to make it but the ham was not needed lol

Ngl, had me until they slammed ham on top, then I was out

Looks like a lasagnette lasagna, which is basically an unstructured version of the lasagna. Absolutely nothing wrong with this though I do find the choice of ham to be odd but certainly not stupid

I've seen way worse in this subreddit. This isn't stupid at all, imo.

I would still eat it

Looks decent. Just used Italian sausage instead of ham. Nice little quick lasagna

I don't find this stupid at all..

It's lazaga esque?.... so sure?

No

The only part of this I take issue with is the lunchmeat. Other than that it doesn't seem like a bad idea.

You call this steamed lasagna, despite the fact that it is obviously fried.

I’d still eat it.

it says "lasagna in 5 minutes" but they forgot to mention that the beef is already cooked in the video, that alone consists of at least one hour of prep work

Looks like a good dish, I’ll try the ham too I’m not gonna be picky. Way less intensive.

I'd try this, minus the ham

I don’t see any problem in this?

It doesn’t look bad, but it has no right to be called lasagna.

I’m an absolute pig, because I’m not saying yes, but I’m not saying no, either.

To be fair when I cook lasagna I don’t boil the noodles I just put the whole thing in the oven and the noodles cook with the rest of the dish

Whatever you call it, it looks pretty nice to be fair.

Why is there HAM?!

i want to do this just to spite italy for inventing fascism

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I'd give it a shot even if the ham is a bit out of place

Easy one skillet meal? Seems pretty smart to me. Lots of places in the world add what to you or I seem to be unconventional ingredients. But that doesn't mean it's stupid. It's just means you're uncultured and close-minded. Lighten up and broaden your horizons.

This is not lasagna, this is a crime against lasagna

Lasagne is the shape of the pasta, not the way it’s prepared, so it is Lasagna :)

If this video was American the comments would be completely different.

That may or may not taste good...I am skeptical..but it is not lasagna. Maybe lasagna inspired, at best...

It should have been called an abomination because that's not lasagna that's hell

That ham was stupid, but overall it's fine. People call this lazy lasagna. It's also missing some form of ricotta or bechamel, but whatever.

Yes, that looks like lasagna.

lasagna or not imma devour that shit.

This hurt my soul oh nooo 🫣