# Pasticho

A delicious lasagna-like dish from the immigration of Italy to Venezuela with meat and bechamel sauce.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.5 taza olive oil
- 1 kilo ground meat
- 150 gramos golden onion
- 1 shredded small carrot
- 3 finely chopped garlic cloves
- 1 taza tomato passata
- 1 taza red wine
- a gusto salt
- a gusto pepper
- a gusto basil
- bechamel sauce
- l
mminas pasticho sheets
- a gusto parmesan cheese
- a gusto llanero cheese

## Instructions

1. Heat a pot, add olive oil, ground meat, and sauté to move and crumbling patiently. Add salt when the meat is mostly toasted.
2. Add toasted onion, sofried grated carrot with garlic, tomato passata and red wine and cook until getting a thicker texture and the wine evaporates.
3. Add pepper and cut basil.
4. Add bechamel to the recipient.
5. Add a pasticho sheet.
6. Add the meat, bechamel and the cheese mix to every layer until the top. Add some water in the bottom of the oven to provide humidity.
7. Put to the oven to 180 - 200 Celsius until it is toasted.

## Tips

- Sautee ground meat on olive oil and stir patiently until turning it into small crumbles and browning it
- Sautee the onion until golden and then put the meat
- Don't put salt at the beginning
- The pepper loses aroma on long cookings so better put it at the end

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH088E_LFqY&t=21s
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/7c481b59-f1a8-4c95-b6b1-aed02d7f16e6
- Extracted: 2025-05-17

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