Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, classic moussakas. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Classic Moussakas is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Classic Moussakas is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook classic moussakas using 26 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Moussakas:
- Take 6 large Eggplants (thinly sliced round pieces)
- Get 2 large Potatoes (thinly sliced round pieces)
- Take 800 grams minced Beef or Lamb
- Get 2-3 medium Onions diced
- Get 2 Garlic Cloves minced
- Get 4 fresh graded Tomatoes
- Prepare 100 grams White Wine
- Prepare 1 cup plain breadcrumbs
- Get 1 teaspoon fresh Parsley chopped
- Take 1 teaspoon Oregano
- Get 1 teaspoon Sugar
- Make ready 2 – 3 tablespoons of cooking Butter
- Take 1 cup shredded Cheese
- Get 2 Eggs beaten
- Take 1/2 cup Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil
- Make ready Salt
- Take Pepper
- Get 1 cup Water
- Prepare Bechamel Sauce
- Get 6 tablespoons flour
- Make ready 4 tablespoons cooking butter
- Take 4 coffee cups of Milk
- Take Salt and Pepper
- Get 2 beaten eggs
- Take 1 handful shredded cheese
- Get 8 Portions:
Instructions to make Classic Moussakas:
- In a large sauce pan, saute the onions, garlic in 3 tablespoons of butter. Add in the beef and stir until golden brown, then gradually add in the wine. Toss in the tomatoes, water, salt and pepper, parsley, oregano and sugar. Let this boil for about 1/2 hour. When the beef sauce is done take it off the stove and add in the beaten eggs, the breadcrumbs and 1/2 cup of the shredded cheese. Set it a side.
- In a large frying pan add in the 1/2 cup Olive oil or Vegetable Oil, and fry the eggplant and potatoes until lightly brown. Take a deep buttered baking pan and start layering in the potatoes, (the potatoes actually cover the bottom of your pan), and then continue layering the eggplant slices on top. Add your beef sauce on top of the eggplants and spread throughout the pan.
- In a large sauce pan, melt butter on low heat with a whisk and slowly add 1 tablespoon of flour at a time, gradually add the milk, whisk continuously. Add in all the other ingredients and stir until your Bechamel sauce has thicken. Pour on top of the meat sauce and spread.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 1 hour and until Bechamel sauce is golden brown.
- Kali Orexi!! :) Enjoy!!
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