Italian style gratin

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 6 people, you will need:

• 1 1 onion
• 2 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 400 g minced beef
• 4 300 g courgette
• 5 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 6 2 tomatoes
• 7 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 8 300 g Bechamel sauce
• 9 100 g grated cheese
• Total weight: 1,545 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
30 min.	40 min.	1 hour 8 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Peel and chop 1 onion.
2	Pour 4 tablespoons olive oil into a large saucepan on medium heat. When hot, add the onions and cook for 2 minutes without colouring. Salt and pepper.
3	Add the minced beef and cook, stirring from time to time. Set aside.
4	Prepare 300 g courgette and slice into thin rounds.
5	Pour 2 tablespoons olive oil into a large saucepan on medium heat. When hot, add the courgettes and cook for 5 minutes, then salt and pepper. Set aside.
6	Prepare 2 tomatoes (while it is not essential to peel them, it is better), slice and fry in 2 tablespoons olive oil, then salt and pepper on both sides.
7	Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C). Begin assembling the gratin: use a buttered gratin dish and spread the sautéed courgettes in the bottom.
8	Cover with a layer of minced beef.
9	Cover with a layer of bechamel.
10	Then add the tomatoes.
11	Then a final layer of meat.
12	Finish with another layer of bechamel and the grated cheese.
13	Cook in the oven until the top is nicely browned.

Remarks

For the cheese topping, I prefer Comté, but use whatever you like. Of course, Parmesan would be more Italian.

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