Rosamund Urwin6 August 2012

What: Lasagne al Forno

Where from: £6 from Carluccio’s “at home” range, available at Sainsbury’s.

Taste assessment: If you can’t drag yourself away from the athletics long enough to make a sofa supper, Carluccio’s has come to your rescue. Their seven-layered lasagne only needs to be thrown in the oven for 35 minutes and is then ready to eat. Made with a “soffritto” base (a sautéed mix of onion and carrot) it is utterly moreish: the white sauce is wonderfully creamy and cheesy, the beef and pork are brought out with a dash of Chianti and the sheets of egg pasta have just the right level of bite. It probably won’t help you achieve the body of an Olympian though: there are a stonking 740 calories in only half the dish.

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