Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Here is a great recipe for moussaka, a Greek dish. It includes sliced eggplant baked in a ground beef sauce and then smothered in a thin white sauce. The wonderful Akis Petretzikis has a fantastic moussaka recipe using baked vegetables instead of fried to make it that little bit lighter.
Moussaka is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have moussaka using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
- Get 1 kg eggplants
- Make ready 1 kg potatoes
- Take 125 g kefalotyri cheese, grated (you can substitute it with Pecorino Romano or Parmezan)
- Get salt, pepper, sugar
- Make ready 1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
- Make ready Meat filling
- Get 1 kg ground beef
- Get 350 g chopped peeled tomatoes
- Make ready 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 125 ml white wine (retsina if available)
- Prepare 2 onions, finely chopped
- Take 75 ml olive oil
- Make ready 1 beef stock cube
- Get 4 egg whites
- Get 1 pinch each cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt
- Make ready 2-4 cloves garlic
- Prepare herbs1 tbsp parsley, 1 tbsp mint, all chopped finely
- Make ready spices2 pinches oregano, 1 pinch each of ground cloves, ground cinnamon, ground coriander, and 1/2 of a bay leaf.
- Get 4 cups bechamel sauce (with the 4 egg yolks)
To prepare a traditional Greek Moussaka recipe, luscious layers of juicy beef mince (or lamb) are cooked in a tomato based sauce, layered with. This moussaka is mostly authentic with a couple of twists for added flavor. Many very traditional versions of moussaka use a layer of potatoes. Most modern versions do not which is a shame.
Steps to make Moussaka:
- Slice the eggplants into long slices, approximately 1 cm thick. Salt them, and let them stand for 30 minutes. Wash the salt off, strain them and pat them very dry with kitchen paper.
- Slice the potatoes into 1 cm thick slices and fry them as well as the eggplants, in plenty of hot oil. Let them strain on absorbent paper.
- Prepare the meat filling. In a saucepan, bring the oil to heat and lightly sauté the onion and the ground beef, until the ground beef is no longer pink. Add the wine and the stock cube. Add the spices, a little water and let the meat simmer for 45 minutes.
- Then add the tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, herbs, and the salt. Allow to simmer until the sauce has thickened.
- Remove from the heat and allow to cool a little. Stir in the egg whites.
- Prepare the bechamel sauce. Take care to only add the egg yolks once the sauce has cooled a little.
- In an ovenproof dish, layer first the potato slices, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with half the chopped parsley, a little sugar, and 1/3 of the grated cheese. Next layer the meat filling, and finish off with a layer of the eggplant slices, which we season as the potatoes. Spread the bechamel sauce over, sprinkle with the remaining grated cheese, and bake at 180 degrees for approximately 1 hour.
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