Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Moussaka is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Learn How to make Traditional Greek Moussaka. This dish is so rich and full of flavor. layers of potatoes, eggplants, meat and béchamel sauce. Moussaka is to the Greek what Lasagna is to Italians.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook moussaka using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
- Take 1 kg eggplants
- Take 1 kg potatoes
- Take 125 g kefalotyri cheese, grated (you can substitute it with Pecorino Romano or Parmezan)
- Get salt, pepper, sugar
- Prepare 1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
- Make ready Meat filling
- Get 1 kg ground beef
- Make ready 350 g chopped peeled tomatoes
- Take 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
- Make ready 125 ml white wine (retsina if available)
- Take 2 onions, finely chopped
- Take 75 ml olive oil
- Get 1 beef stock cube
- Prepare 4 egg whites
- Prepare 1 pinch each cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt
- Make ready 2-4 cloves garlic
- Prepare herbs1 tbsp parsley, 1 tbsp mint, all chopped finely
- Prepare spices2 pinches oregano, 1 pinch each of ground cloves, ground cinnamon, ground coriander, and 1/2 of a bay leaf.
- Make ready 4 cups bechamel sauce (with the 4 egg yolks)
Moussaka by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis! It is usually followed when someone is allergic to nuts. This moussaka is mostly authentic with a couple of twists for added flavor. Many very traditional versions of moussaka use a layer of potatoes.
Instructions 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.
Most modern versions do not which is a shame. This was delicious but definitely takes a while (as I think any moussaka recipe does). This Mighty Moussaka is packed with layers and layers of eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, meat and, of course, a creamy bechamel sauce. Moussaka is an oven-to-table casserole of layers of potato slices, cheese, ground meat sauce, and a Like all moussaka dishes, this is a layered dish of sliced potatoes, a meat sauce, cheese, and a. Like most good things, moussaka takes time to make, but it feeds a crowd.
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