I love to use different flours. We have lots of barley flour here in South Africa, so I tend to use it a lot! One night I wanted to try and make some barley flour pasta for my lasagna. Here are the results! At least pictorial results. I wish I could share the actual food on here as well! Anyways, I can give you the recipe and method, then you can try it yourself. I think this is made with easily accessible ingredients, so I really hope you give it a try.

Step One

Get all the ingredients! Flour is normally 100grams per 1 egg and that is good for one person. I made it for three other people, and we tend to eat smallish portions, so from 3/4 eggs and 300 grams of flour I made food for four people for two days.

Step Two

Knead the pasta for something like 10 minutes and set it aside for an hour or two; enough time to prep the ingredients for the lasagna.

Step Three

I made a vegetarian (with milk/dairy/egg) lasagna, so no meat but cheese and egg and milk.

I made some wilted spinach and cooked some canned tomatoes down until it wasn't as watery, or until it was sticky almost like tomato sauce. I also made a basic white bechamel with some extra cheese in.

Step Four

Roll out the pasta! This is the most fun part. You can be creative, you can be clinical, or you can be like me and just make random ugly pasta because you are tired from the whole day cooking and working. These won't win any beauty competitions, but it looks almost like art pieces.

Step Five

Layer the lasagna pieces in a baking dish, I like to make many layers, so my advice is don't layer the sauce or spinach too thick otherwise you won't get all those nice layers.

Bake the whole thing for 45 min or so at 180-200 C, and enjoy one of life's great pleasures!

Step Six

Done! Cut it into the desired size, and enjoy it! Please also enjoy the last couple of photographs of those beautiful layers and enjoy it if you try this!

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