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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook greek pastitsio from left over bolognese (vegetarian) using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Pastitsio from left over bolognese (vegetarian):
- Take For the sauce
- Prepare 450-500 g left over bolognese (I used vegan mincemeat)
- Prepare 1-2 teaspoon grounded cinnamon
- Take 5-6 clove buds
- Take 1 tsp sugar (small)
- Prepare 2-3 bay leaves
- Take Bechamel
- Get 50-60 g butter
- Get 50-60 g plain flour
- Take 350 ml warm milk
- Prepare Salt pepper nutmeg (to taste)
- Take Extra
- Prepare 250 g bucatini pasta (I only had macaroni at home so used that)
- Make ready 40-50 g grated cheese (or more or less depends on the taste)
If you can't find it where you live, feel free to use shorter macaroni, or bucatini, which is Italian pasta with a smaller tube. Greeks usually serve pastitsio together with a salad, to add a bit of freshness to the dish. For the vegan pastitsio recipe, I replaced ground lamb with a mix of healthy vegetables: carrots, lentils, tomatoes and, of course, authentic pastitsio spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. The vegan Bechamel sauce is actually super easy to make!
Instructions to make Greek Pastitsio from left over bolognese (vegetarian):
- Reheat the bolognese with the spices, sugar and let it simmer for about 10-15 min until is hot and the spices released the taste.
- Prepare the bechamel. Melt the butter in a sauce pan and add the flour. Fry them together until starts to smell like a toast. Gradually add the milk, bit by bit. This is a slow process. Use the whisk to make sure the sauce doesn’t become lumpy. When added all the milk add the salt, pepper and nutmeg. Cook it for 4-5 more minutes.
- Cook the pasta meanwhile. Drain it a couple minutes before it is properly cooked.
- Using a 25x 25 cm dish, start to layer your dish like a lasagne. Little bolognese sauce on the bottom, pasta, bolognese sauce, pasta bolognese sauce and on the top the bechamel and finish it with the grated cheese.
- Bake it in the oven in 180C fan until the top is golden brown. About 25min.
Pastitsio (pronounced as pa-STEE-tsee-oh) though a pasta dish is not Italian at all. It is a Greek baked pasta casserole, somewhat similar to the Italian Lasagna, layered with pasta, minced meat cooked with tomatoes and spices and topped with a white sauce and cheese. You could probably think of it as a Greek version of the Italian Lasagna. Add wine and turn heat up to medium. Cook, stirring for around a minute, until most of the wine has evaporated.
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