Do You Remove The Vegetable Peelings From The Milk For The Lasagne Of Love?

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Nigella's Lasagne Of Love (from COOK, EAT, REPEAT) has layers of pasta, meat sauce and home-made bechamel sauce. It is both comforting and a crowd pleaser. The meat sauce includes onions, garlic, celery and carrots and Nigella uses the peelings and trimmings from these vegetables to add extra flavour to the bechamel sauce.

The vegetable peelings are added to milk, which is heated and then left to infuse for about 45 minutes. At the end of step 7 it states that the infused milk should be strained into a large jug. At this point the vegetable peelings should be caught in the sieve or strainer and should be discarded. The strained, infused milk is used to make the bechamel sauce.