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How to make a massive five-layer lasagna…in your rice cooker

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The quest to eat all of the cheese in our office continues.

 

First there was our attempt at creating a 1,005-cheese-slice Whopper, then there was our successful rice cooker deep dish Chicago pizza concoction. Now, with tons of cheese still leftover, we bring you…lasagna.

That’s what our Japanese-language reporter and workplace chef Go Hatori came up with when he was thinking of ways to use up more cheese. An ooey-gooey lasagna would do just the trick, but would it taste just as good made in a rice cooker?

This was Go’s first attempt at making lasagna in a rice cooker, so he decided to wing the recipe. Go prepped some of the more time-consuming ingredients at home, like boiled eggs and the meat to add to the lasagna.

▼ You might be tilting your head already at the eggs, but hear us out.

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He made the meat sauce with ground meat, onions, canned tomatoes, garlic, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and basil.

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The next day, he brought his prepped ingredients and more to the office.

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Ingredients:

  • Meat sauce
  • Hard-boiled eggs
  • Lasagna noodles
  • Fresh, chopped parsley
  • Fresh basil
  • Parmesan cheese
  • Salami

First, Go boiled the lasagna noodles as per the directions on the lasagna noodle box.

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Next, he chopped up the hard-boiled eggs and the basil, then laid out the ingredients in preparation for lasagna construction.

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He started off with some meat sauce on the bottom of the rice cooker…

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…then added some hard-boiled eggs.

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He threw in some basil and salami…

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…and completed the first layer with a lasagna noodle.

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Now it’s cheese time! Yes, that’s actually how much is left in our fridge.

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Go didn’t hold back, adding slice after slice.

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He repeated this stacking process a few more times…

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…until he completed his massive five-layer lasagna.

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He closed the rice cooker lid and set the timer for 60 minutes.

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When the timer beeped, he opened the lid to see his beautiful, cheesy creation. It looked delicious!

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Go wasted no time in cutting out a thick slice.

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He used his blowtorch to crisp up the cheese a bit more.

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For garnish, he sprinkled some chopped parsley.

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Plated up, it almost looked restaurant-worthy. And on his first try, too!

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Our boss Yoshio happened to walk by at that moment, perhaps subconsciously lured by the enticing lasagna scent drifting in the air. Yoshio can be a tough critic, but as he tried Go’s creation, he had nothing but good things to say. “This is amazing…I can’t stop eating it even though I’m full from the curry I just ate.”

▼ “You know something’s really good when you want to eat it even on a full stomach.”

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His motivation fueled by Yoshio’s generous praise, Go plated up enough lasagna to feed the whole office, blowtorching each one carefully.

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He didn’t skimp on the parsley garnish, either.

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Now for the grand taste test…

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▼ “This is sooo good!”
“Delectable!”
“The cheese is even a bit crispy!”

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Not one member of our staff had a bad experience with this rice cooker lasagna. What made Go particularly happy is that Seiji Nakazawa, the team’s harshest critic, was the first one to vocalize how delicious it was.

▼ It also turned out to be Seiji’s first-ever lasagna.

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Finally, Chef Go allowed himself a taste and savored the cheesy fruits of his labor. He was not disappointed.

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So if you’ve got a rice cooker at home and a ridiculous amount of cheese, consider trying out Go’s recipe! We’re sure the SoraNews24 team will be begging him to make more.

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