Do you boil lasagna sheets before baking?
Chef's answer
Soak the lasagne sheets in a single layer in boiling water for 5 mins. (Although the packet says no pre-cook, I find soaking improves the texture.) Drain well..
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Lasagne typically need to cook in a hot oven for about 30 minutes. ... To avoid this, I usually precook the sheets in slightly-salted boiling water for one minute (I just want to soften them, not cook them).
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The brilliant thing about lasagne is, of course, that it can be treated simply as sheets of pasta. "If you parboil them briefly, so they're floppy, you can then use a sharp knife to cut them into tagliatelle," Roddy says.
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