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I am Scott, How snowy.
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And I'm Angie a Rito.
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And we are the chef owners of Don and the restaurant in the West Village.
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We're both really passionate about Italian American food, and we basically put our own twist on a classic Italian dishes such as Sonya.
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Instead of doing a traditional layer lasagna, we do basically like pinwheels.
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Angie was looking at a picture on instagram of like cinnamon buns or something.
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A lightbulb went off in her head and she was like, Oh, be cool if we could make was on you in that form and it ended up being a really smart idea and also growing up, we would eat lasagne and everybody always wants, like the crispy ends, which is usually typically only the four corners.
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But when you cook it like this, the entire top gets really crispy.
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It's like the perfect bounce.
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Everybody gets like a crispy part, and then the soft part, and it's much lighter because it's not compacted, like a traditional way we make the lasagna.
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Here is we take fresh pasta sheets that we make in house way.
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Cook them briefly in boiling salted water, cool them down, then we spread a layer of Mechem ella on top.
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On top of that, we add a layer Parmesan cheese, a good amount of mozzarella cheese.
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We had a second layer of pasta.
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On top of that, we put a generous helping of our Bolognese sauce, which sort of like a typical villain.
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Easy, but we had a couple of unique ingredients to it.
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We had Italian sausage on Chett.
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We had some result of tomatoes after we spread the layer of Bolognese A.
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We add a small layer of fresh smell at the top to sort of seal the role closed once we roll it up, and at that point you roll it sealer closed.
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Uh, cool it down, and then we slice it into pinwheels and replace the pinwheels in a casserole dish with some Rosana tomato sauce, some dollops of fresh robe.
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Eola cheese.
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We decided to use Rovio cheese instead of ricotta cheese, which is typically used in most lasagnas because it has a tanginess to it, and it's also it has a very light texture, so it makes the dish overall.
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Come off is a lot lighter.
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We put in a foreign interview oven for about 12 to 15 minutes.
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When we take it out of the oven, we finish it with olive oil on fresh chopped parsley, and that's the process.
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Our style of food is a new take on Italian American food, like a modern Italian American restaurant feel like.
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Especially in New York City.
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You know, the markets a little bit saturated with time, American restaurants.
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So we wanted to do something unique and different.
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There are a couple sort of iconic restaurants in New York, you know, Don Antonio, Don Pepe, and it's always a man's name.
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So this is sort of like, you know, it's supposed to be a little bit cheeky what it's like.
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I'm the matriarch.
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We're both really passionate about what we d'oh and we both.
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I don't think I could see ourselves doing anything else, and this allows us to do it together.