Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, the perfect moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook the perfect moussaka using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make The perfect moussaka:
- Make ready 3-4 eggplants
- Get 3-4 zucchinis
- Prepare béchamel sauce
- Get For the ground meat
- Prepare 300 g to 350 g ground beef
- Take 2 tomatoes blended in the food processor
- Get salt, pepper
- Get 1 little sugar
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Take 1 onion, finely chopped
- Take grated kefalotyri (traditional Greek hard salty yellow cheese)
Second, it calls for way too much onion and eggplant. It's a perfect time-saving dish for dinner parties and potlucks. This moussaka recipe can be fully assembled and frozen for up to a month. Greek Moussaka recipe - Prepare the Béchamel sauce.
Steps to make The perfect moussaka:
- Cut the eggplants and the zucchinis into thin slices.
- Spread them out in a baking sheet, sprinkle with olive oil and season lightly with salt.
- Plae the baking sheet in the oven at 170°C - 180°C on the first rack for about 40 to 50 minutes so that vegetables dry from their liquids.
- Prepare the béchamel sauce.
- As soon as you prepare the béchamel sauce, cover it with cling film to prevent a skin from forming.
- Ground meatSauté the onion lightly in olive oil or if you want a lighter taste, just boil it together with the ground meat.
- Add the ground beef to the oil and brown it.
- Add the tomato, salt, pepper, cinnamon and water, though not too much.
- Simmer until all its liquids are absorbed.
- Place one layer of eggplants and one layer of zucchinis in a baking tray.
- If you still have extra slices, repeat the process.
- Spread the ground meat mixture over everything, distributing it evenly.
- Spread the béchamel sauce evenly on the top.
- Sprinkle with the cheese.
- Bake at 200°C until the béchamel sauce is golden brown and the cheese has melted.
The creamy béchamel sauce is the most essential part for a traditional Greek moussaka recipe and probably the trickiest part too. To achieve the perfect texture for your béchamel sauce, add the milk (preferably lukewarm) a little bit at a time whilst constantly stirring. This moussaka provides a wonderful meal for a family occasion and is made with the traditional lamb mince. Greek moussaka is a casserole made by layering eggplant and potatoes with a spiced meat filling, then topping it off with a creamy egg-enriched béchamel sauce (white sauce) and baking it to golden perfection. It is perhaps the most widely recognized of all Greek dishes and was made famous by the legendary Greek chef Nicholas Tselementes.
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