Lasagna

There are several famous and delicious dishes, foods out there in the world that everyone could try. May that be the most famous which is pizza, that every person in the world knows about, tortillas, spaghetti, moussaka, baklava, bolognese or else that many people praise and enjoy. 

One of those foods that as they say in our country “ligi da ti potecat”  (saliva to leak) is favorite choice of many, and that is lasagnа. 

According to wikipedia lasagnа is an Itаlian dish made of several layers of lasagnа sheets and in between there are other ingredients. Which could be different kinds of meat, tomato or other kind of sauce, sausage, cheese, different vegetables, onions, potatoes, oregano, garlic and other.

Also the most quality and tasteful lasagnа has some great quality ingredients. For example some of the top quality cheese like ricotta, mozzarella or parmigiano and the  most important part in the lasagnа making is the sauce, which some people keep secret because it gives the lasagnа it’s main flavor and makes people amazed.

There are three theories on the internet of the origin of lasagnа. 

The first one is that it comes from ancient greek dish called “laganon” which is flat pasta dough cut into strips.

The second one is that comes from the roman dish called “lasanum” which means cooking pot. 

And the third one is that this dish was invented by an English recipe called “loseyn” in 14th century during the reign of Richаrd II.

However the first modern recipe was created in Nаples, Itаly and there it became a traditional and very delicious italian dish. 

From Itаly lasagnа came to America with the italian immigrants that immigrated to look for better life in bigger more developed country. From America the recipe for this dish spread across the whole world. 

And now everyone in every place in the world prepares some kind of lasagnа.

How did lasagnа get so popular is unknown. But maybe the comic book or the cartoon character Garfild had some influence on the popularity of this dish, by constantly requiring certain amount of lasagnа or lasagnаs to be given by his master.

There are hundreds restaurants which serve this kind of special dish lasagnа. Each of them with different kinds of sauces and ingredients that gives it’s different taste and special flavor, depending on the people that eat and the chef that is preparing the dish.