Ingredients for Timballo

• 1 1/2 Esslöffel natives Olivenöl extra

• 230g sweet Italian sausage meat (remove casings if in links)

• 1 mittelgroße Zwiebel, fein gehackt

• 1 türkisches oder 1/2 kalifornisches Lorbeerblatt

• 1 carrot, finely chopped

• 1 celery rib, finely chopped

• 1/4 Teelöffel Salz

• 1 Esslöffel Tomatenmark

• 120ml trockener Rotwein

• 1 (14- to 425g ) can whole tomatoes in juice, forced with juices through a food mill (300g )

• Prise Zucker

• 350g ziti

• 450g green Swiss chard, stems and centre ribs discarded and leaves coarsely chopped (900g )

• 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter

• 2 Knoblauchzehen, gehackt

• 1 Esslöffel Mehl

• 240ml Vollmilch

• 1/4 Teelöffel Salz

• 1/8 Teelöffel weißer Pfeffer

• 1/8 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg

• 30g fein geriebener Parmigiano-Reggiano (80g)

• 110g fresh mozzarella (not unsalted), cut into 1/2-inch cubes (scant 240ml )

• a 2-qt soufflé dish

• Backpapier

• a 6- to 8-qt wide pot

Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté sausage, breaking up lumps with a fork, until no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Add onion and bay leaf and sauté, stirring frequently, until onion begins to brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Add carrot, celery, and salt and sauté, stirring occasionally, until vegetables begin to soften, about 4 minutes. Add tomato paste and cook, stirring constantly, 1 minute, then add wine and deglaze by boiling, scraping up any brown bits, until most of liquid is evaporated, 1 to 2 minutes. Add tomato purée and sugar and boil, stirring frequently, until thickened, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool sauce and discard bay leaf.

Cook pasta in a 6- to 8-quart pot of boiling until al dente, then transfer with a skimmer to a colander to drain (do not rinse), reserving water in pot to cook chard. Cool pasta, spread in a baking pan, to warm.

Add chard to pot and simmer, uncovered, until tender, 3 to 5 minutes, then transfer with skimmer to a bowl of ice and cold water. Drain chard and squeeze handfuls, then finely chop.

Heat butter in a 1 1/2- to 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat until foam subsides, then add garlic and cook, whisking, 1 minute. Add flour and cook, whisking, 1 minute, then add milk in a slow stream, whisking. Bring to a boil, whisking. Reduce heat and simmer, whisking occasionally, until sauce is slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Stir in chard, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons Parmigiano, then remove pan from heat.

Put oven rack in lower third of oven and preheat oven to 191°C.

Oil soufflé dish and line bottom with a round of parchment paper, then oil parchment. Cover bottom of dish with a single layer of pasta. Sprinkle 120ml mozzarella and 45ml Parmigiano over pasta, then spoon half of meat sauce in an even layer over cheese. Arrange one third of remaining pasta over meat sauce in soufflé dish and top with all of chard, then another layer of pasta (about half of remainder). Sprinkle with remainder of cheeses, then spoon remaining meat sauce over cheese. Top with remaining pasta. (You may have pasta left over.) Cover pasta with an oiled round of parchment (oiled side down) and cover dish with foil.

Bake in a in wide 6- to 8-quart pot until bubbling and a metal skewer or thin knife inserted in centre of timballo comes out hot to the touch, about 1 hour. Remove soufflé dish from water bath and let stand, covered, 15 minutes. Remove foil and parchment and run a knife around edge of timballo to loosen, then invert a platter over soufflé dish and invert timballo onto platter. Remove soufflé dish and remaining parchment.

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