Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, moussaka. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Moussaka is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook moussaka using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
- Prepare 1 kg eggplants
- Make ready 1 kg potatoes
- Prepare 125 g kefalotyri cheese, grated (you can substitute it with Pecorino Romano or Parmezan)
- Make ready salt, pepper, sugar
- Get 1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
- Prepare Meat filling
- Take 1 kg ground beef
- Make ready 350 g chopped peeled tomatoes
- Prepare 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 125 ml white wine (retsina if available)
- Make ready 2 onions, finely chopped
- Make ready 75 ml olive oil
- Prepare 1 beef stock cube
- Make ready 4 egg whites
- Prepare 1 pinch each cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt
- Make ready 2-4 cloves garlic
- Take 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.
- Take 4 cups bechamel sauce (with the 4 egg yolks)
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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