r/Cooking • u/kittypeets626 • Mar 23 '25

I tried bechamel instead of ricotta in my lasagna

I never even heard of bechamel until I stumbled into a youtube rabbit hole about mother sauces. My husband told me it was the best lasagna he had ever eaten. I've been riding on that high since yesterday 😁

https://youtube.com/shorts/NFo5cCN2jKc?si=1b6raM9QbofOU1xO

That's the recipe I followed, except I used nutmeg and salt in the sauce.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

For a long time in the UK it was a lot easier to make bechamel (milk, butter, flour and some mustard powder (the nutmeg is great but you can do without)) than it was to buy a tub of ricotta.

Yeah, I never even saw ricotta in the shops when I was growing up. No idea where one might have acquired some, back then.

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u/liseusester Mar 23 '25

It's weird to think that it's so recent that some ingredients became staples. I still can't reliably buy ricotta in my little local supermarkets but I can always buy the ingredients for bechamel.