Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Moussaka is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something that 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. Learn How to make Traditional Greek Moussaka.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook moussaka using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
- Take 1 large aubergine sliced
- Make ready 1 large potato thinly sliced
- Take 1 zucchini sliced
- Make ready Olive oil
- Make ready 100 gms butter
- Take 100 gms flour
- Take 1 large onion chopped fine
- Make ready 3-4 garlic cloves chopped
- Make ready 3/4 th cup milk
- Make ready 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Take Salt as per taste
- Take 1 tsp pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- Prepare 150 gms shredded gouda cheese 100 gms shredded parmesan
- Make ready 1 beaten egg
- Prepare 500 gms minced lamb meat
- Make ready 2 large tomatoes chopped
- Take 1 tsp oregano
Moussaka by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis! Are you ready to try one of the most amazingly delicious Authentic Greek Moussaka. It is usually followed when someone is allergic to nuts. This moussaka is mostly authentic with a couple of twists for added flavor.
Steps to make Moussaka:
- In a skillet pan fry potato, zucchini and aubergine until golden brown and set aside (you could deep fry)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Add tomatoes, mix and let it all cook until tomatoes have disintegrated, once cooked set aside
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius
- 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
- Pour white sauce on top of lamb, sprinkle remaining cheese and bake for 50 minutes.
- 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
Traditional moussaka uses ground lamb while most modern versions use ground beef. I took culinary license to add the additional. Indulge in a Greek-style moussaka, made with aubergines and lamb, packed with herbs and topped with two types of cheese. Greek Moussaka recipe - A delicious taste of Greece. To prepare a traditional Greek Moussaka recipe, luscious layers of juicy beef mince (or lamb) are cooked in a tomato based sauce, layered with.
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