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).
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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