Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really 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 well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook moussaka using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
- Prepare 4 large eggplants
- Take 2 large potatoes
- Take 600 g ground beef
- Prepare 2 medium onions, diced
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves
- Take 3 fresh tomatoes
- Get 1 tsp freshly chopped parsley
- Prepare 1 tsp oregano
- Prepare 2 tbsp butter
- Make ready 2 eggs, beaten
- Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil
- Make ready 1 pinch salt and pepper
- Prepare 1 cup white wine
- Get 1 cup water
- Get Bechamel sauce >
- Take 6 tbsp flour
- Take 4 tbsp butter
- Get 1 pinch salt and pepper
- Get 2 eggs, beaten
Start with the meat sauce, and while that is. Moussaka, undoubtedly one of the most well known classic Greek recipes, is My Greek moussaka is aubergine based, and one which I make with a yogurt based topping for a slightly lighter Moussaka. Moussaka is a traditional dish of baked sliced aubergines with a tomato and meat (usually lamb) sauce and an egg-enriched béchamel topping. It's most commonly associated with Greece.
Steps to make Moussaka:
- Gather your ingredients. Dice the onions and garlic cloves, then slice the potatoes and eggplants into thin circles
- Melt the butter in a large pot then sauté the garlic and onions for 3 mins
- Next add the beef and cook until browned
- Now add the white wine, parsley, oregano, salt, pepper and tomatoes. Cook for 30 minutes, then set aside
- Heat the 1/2 cup of oil in a large pan and fry your sliced potatoes until golden brown, then lay them out in the bottom of a large, buttered baking dish
- Similarly fry all the eggplant slices and layer them on top of the potatoes. Then evenly pour your beef sauce over the top
- In a large frying pan melt the 4 tbsp of butter, then gradually spoon in the flour 1 tbsp at a time stirring constantly
- Gradually add in all the milk, again stirring constantly along with the salt and pepper until your sauce thickens
- Spread the bechamel sauce over the meat in the baking dish evenly
- Sprinkle the grated cheese on top and place in the oven pre-heated to 180C, and bake for 1 hour
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