Lasagne, also
lasagna, is both a form of
pasta in rippled sheets and also a dish, most commonly named
Lasagne al forno (meaning "Lasagne in the
oven[?]") made with alternate layers of lasagne pasta,
cheese, and
ragł[?] (a
tomato and
meat sauce).
Many recipes call for several kinds of cheese, most often ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan.
A variant is Lasagne verdi (green lasagne) which is the normal egg pasta with spinach added.
Lasagne was first recorded in the 13th century.
It is a favorite dish of the fictional cat Garfield.
- We shall feast our grape-gleaners with lasagne so tempting to swallow in slippery ropes. Robert Browning, poem, "Englishman in Italy"