Lasagna! It is for sure the best meal and here we made a creamy combo of spinach, ricotta, Italian cheeses and bechamel sauce ...
Delia' shows you how to make béchamel sauce ... the sauce very aromatic and distinguishes this sauce from a plain white sauce, which might have cheese or other flavourings added to it.
Delia' shows you how to make béchamel sauce, using a mixture of butter and flour called a roux. A béchamel sauce is one of the French "mother sauces" and is a really good one to learn.
La Varenne is credited for documenting the instructions for making bechamel, but it's unclear if he created it or simply improved a pre-existing recipe. Decades later, in 1733, "The Modern Cook ...
Béchamel or a white sauce has been unfashionable for many years ... but we don’t seem so worried about this in baking. To be able to make a silky béchamel, is considered part a good cook ...
and grated cheese (saving about 1 cup béchamel for last topping), making 3 to 4 layers of pasta, finishing with ragù, béchamel, and 1/4 cup of the Parmigiano-Reggiano sprinkled over the top.