The White House Door
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TypeMain course
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 18, 2026
A lasagna door that blocks entry: neat outside, spicy inside.
A neatly built, closed white lasagna door of pasta and creamy sauce, with bright red tomatoes as forbidden entry signs. Polished and inviting outside, but with a spicy filling you don't expect. The silhouette of a closed door with 'forbidden' discs makes the news visible.
Ingredients
- 12 fresh lasagna sheets
- 1 large zucchini
- 2 red bell peppers
- 2 balls mozzarella
- 400 g ground beef
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 400 ml passata
- 200 ml cooking cream
- 1 tsp chili flakes
- 4 large vine tomatoes
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- handful fresh basil
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
- Slice the zucchini lengthwise, the peppers into strips, and the tomatoes into thick rounds.
- Sauté onion and garlic in 1 tbsp olive oil, add beef and brown.
- Add passata, chili flakes, salt, and pepper, simmer for 10 minutes.
- Briefly grill zucchini and peppers with some oil and salt.
- Mix cooking cream with half the mozzarella (in pieces) and some pepper.
- Grease a baking dish. Layer: lasagna, meat sauce, grilled veggies, cream sauce. Repeat until used up.
- Finish with a lasagna sheet and the rest of the mozzarella.
- Place 4 thick tomato slices on top as 'no entry' signs, centered.
- Bake for 30 minutes until golden.
- After baking, cut the lasagna into a rectangle and stand it upright on the plate to form a closed door. Place the tomato slices as 'signs' in the middle of the door.
- Garnish with fresh basil around the door.
Serving notes
- Serve upright as a sturdy lasagna door.
- Let everyone choose their own 'entry' by taking a piece.
- Serve with a green salad.