Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, classic moussakas. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Classic Moussakas is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Classic Moussakas is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
I Made It Print Greek Moussaka recipe - A delicious taste of Greece. Greek moussaka (mousaka) is one of the most popular dishes in Greece, served in almost every tavern and prepared in every household on special occasions and big family meals and for good reason! Classic moussaka is made by layering potatoes, eggplants, and a meaty lamb sauce, and then covering the dish in an egg-enriched béchamel sauce that crisps up and becomes golden brown in the oven. Modern versions use beef, some skip the potatoes and béchamel, but most keep the meat sauce and creamy sauce on top.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have classic moussakas using 26 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve 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
- Make ready 2-3 medium Onions diced
- Get 2 Garlic Cloves minced
- Prepare 4 fresh graded Tomatoes
- Take 100 grams White Wine
- Prepare 1 cup plain breadcrumbs
- Take 1 teaspoon fresh Parsley chopped
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Oregano
- Take 1 teaspoon Sugar
- Take 2 – 3 tablespoons of cooking Butter
- Prepare 1 cup shredded Cheese
- Take 2 Eggs beaten
- Make ready 1/2 cup Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil
- Get Salt
- Get Pepper
- Prepare 1 cup Water
- Make ready Bechamel Sauce
- Take 6 tablespoons flour
- Get 4 tablespoons cooking butter
- Make ready 4 coffee cups of Milk
- Get Salt and Pepper
- Take 2 beaten eggs
- Prepare 1 handful shredded cheese
- Make ready 8 Portions:
Heat butter in a medium saucepan over medium until foaming. Whisk in warm milk and bring sauce to a boil. Classic Moussaka A timeless recipe for a Greek Cypriot classic, Georgina Hayden's authentic moussaka is as good as it gets. Comforting, plentiful and easy to prepare, this is the ultimate dish for family feasts and weekend gatherings.
Steps 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!!
Classic Moussaka A timeless recipe for a Greek Cypriot classic, Georgina Hayden's authentic moussaka is as good as it gets. Comforting, plentiful and easy to prepare, this is the ultimate dish for family feasts and weekend gatherings. I love moussaka, but, it's one of the most time consuming and fiddly Greek dishes to prepare. The preparation also creates piles of washing up, mostly pans, oily, sticky pans. A pan to fry the aubergines (Egg plant), a pan to boil the potatoes, a pan to cook the mince and a pan to cook the bechamel sauce.
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