Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pastitsio. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Get 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
- Make ready 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
- Take butter
- Make ready For the mince layer
- Take 750 g ground beef
- Make ready 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Make ready olive oil
- Get 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
- Make ready 500 ml Passata
- Make ready salt
- Get pepper
- Get ground nutmeg
- Take 500 ml water
- Make ready 200 ml red wine
- Make ready For the bechamel sauce
- Take 7-8 tbsp flour
- Prepare 250 g butter or margarine
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Take 1 can evaporated milk
- Get 1 can water (use the now empty milk can)
- Get 300 g grated cheese (this portion is taken from the 500 g grated earlier)
- Get salt
- Get pepper
- Take 1 level tsp ground nutmeg
A baked Greek pasta with flavorful lamb (or beef) bolognese & nutmeg-infused bechamel. Pastitsio is to Greeks what lasagne are to the Italians and what mac and cheese is to Americans In Greece, pastitsio is often enjoyed in February, during the weeks that precede Lent, and on the. Pastitsio is one of my favorite baked pasta dishes. My husband made this recipe for us a couple of I have tried several pastitsio recipes this is by far the best and most authentic.
Instructions to make Pastitsio:
- Boil the pasta in salted water.
- Strain the pasta using a colander and rinse with cold water.
- Melt 2 tbsp butter in the pot and return the pasta into the pot tossing it well to coat it with the melted butter. Leave it aside to cool.
- Preparing the mince Sauté the onion and mince in the heated oil until the mince is browned.
- Add the fresh tomatoes, passata, salt, pepper, nutmeg, water, and allow to simmer for approximately 40 minutes (or until most of the liquid is reduced). Just before removing the mixture from the heat, add the wine. Let the mince mixture to cool.
- To prepare the bechamel sauce Melt the margarine in a saucepan over medium heat, and add the flour, whisking constantly till flour is lightly browned.
- While whisking constantly, pour in slowly the evaporated milk, water, eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and finally add the grated cheese. As soon as the sauce thickens, remove from heat and allow it to cool.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- In a well greased ovenproof dish, place 2/3 of the pasta to create a bottom layer. Level out and sprinkle with some of the remaining 200g grated cheese.
- Next spread the mince on top of the pasta.
- Cover the mince with the remaining pasta, and more of the grated cheese.
- Cover the whole pastitsio with the bechamel sauce, and sprinkle with the remaining cheese, which will add extra flavour as well as a golden colour to the finished dish.
- Place dish in the pre-heated over and bake for approximately 1 hour.
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