Moussaka
Moussaka

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Moussaka is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something which I have loved my entire life.

Here is a great recipe for moussaka, a Greek dish. It includes sliced eggplant baked in a ground beef sauce and then smothered in a thin white sauce. The wonderful Akis Petretzikis has a fantastic moussaka recipe using baked vegetables instead of fried to make it that little bit lighter.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have moussaka using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
  1. Make ready 1 large aubergine sliced
  2. Get 1 large potato thinly sliced
  3. Get 1 zucchini sliced
  4. Take Olive oil
  5. Take 100 gms butter
  6. Get 100 gms flour
  7. Make ready 1 large onion chopped fine
  8. Get 3-4 garlic cloves chopped
  9. Prepare 3/4 th cup milk
  10. Make ready 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  12. Prepare Salt as per taste
  13. Take 1 tsp pepper
  14. Make ready 1/2 tsp chilli powder
  15. Take 150 gms shredded gouda cheese 100 gms shredded parmesan
  16. Get 1 beaten egg
  17. Take 500 gms minced lamb meat
  18. Take 2 large tomatoes chopped
  19. Take 1 tsp oregano

Start with the meat sauce, and while that is. This moussaka is mostly authentic with a couple of twists for added flavor. Many very traditional versions of moussaka use a layer of potatoes. Most modern versions do not which is a shame.

Steps to make Moussaka:
  1. In a skillet pan fry potato, zucchini and aubergine until golden brown and set aside (you could deep fry)
  2. Place butter in a deep bottom pan and melt on medium heat, add flour stirring constantly so no lumps are formed for about a minute or two
  3. Turn heat to low and whisk in milk, continue to cook on medium heat until sauce thickens, turn heat off, now whisk 50 gms parmesan and 100 gms gouda cheese and incorporate until melted, then whisk in egg until nice and smooth, check for seasoning, add nutmeg and set aside
  4. In skillet add 1tbsp oil, add lamb and cook until brown, now add onions, garlic and continue to cook till onions are translucent appropriately 8 minutes, add chilli powder, cinnamon, pepper, oregano and 1/2tsp salt and mix well
  5. Add tomatoes, mix and let it all cook until tomatoes have disintegrated, once cooked set aside
  6. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius
  7. In a baking dish, layer potato at the bottom of the dish, top with cooked lamb, then layer aubergine, top with lamb layer, now arrange zucchini and top with lamb
  8. Pour white sauce on top of lamb, sprinkle remaining cheese and bake for 50 minutes.
  9. Cool and serve with a side of salad or garlic bread. Leftover (not likely to have any) can be refrigerated stored for 4 days in air tight container

Indulge in a Greek-style moussaka, made with aubergines and lamb, packed with herbs and topped with two types of cheese. Set aside until ready to construct the moussaka. Moussaka, undoubtedly one of the most well known classic Greek recipes, is My Greek moussaka is aubergine based, and one which I make with a yogurt based topping for a slightly lighter Moussaka. Moussaka by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis! It is usually followed when someone is allergic to nuts.

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