Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, the perfect moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have the perfect moussaka using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make The perfect moussaka:
- Take 3-4 eggplants
- Make ready 3-4 zucchinis
- Prepare béchamel sauce
- Take For the ground meat
- Get 300 g to 350 g ground beef
- Get 2 tomatoes blended in the food processor
- Make ready salt, pepper
- Take 1 little sugar
- Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
- Take 1 onion, finely chopped
- Make ready grated kefalotyri (traditional Greek hard salty yellow cheese)
To achieve the perfect texture for your béchamel sauce, add the milk (preferably lukewarm) a little bit at a time whilst constantly stirring. The perfect béchamel sauce for your moussaka should be smooth and creamy. The key is to whisk the sauce constantly to allow each time the flour to absorb the milk, so that it doesn't get lumpy. The perfect moussaka Finally, a recipe for a light moussaka, that isn't "drowning" in oil!
Instructions to make The perfect moussaka:
- Cut the eggplants and the zucchinis into thin slices.
- Spread them out in a baking sheet, sprinkle with olive oil and season lightly with salt.
- Plae the baking sheet in the oven at 170°C - 180°C on the first rack for about 40 to 50 minutes so that vegetables dry from their liquids.
- Prepare the béchamel sauce.
- As soon as you prepare the béchamel sauce, cover it with cling film to prevent a skin from forming.
- Ground meatSauté the onion lightly in olive oil or if you want a lighter taste, just boil it together with the ground meat.
- Add the ground beef to the oil and brown it.
- Add the tomato, salt, pepper, cinnamon and water, though not too much.
- Simmer until all its liquids are absorbed.
- Place one layer of eggplants and one layer of zucchinis in a baking tray.
- If you still have extra slices, repeat the process.
- Spread the ground meat mixture over everything, distributing it evenly.
- Spread the béchamel sauce evenly on the top.
- Sprinkle with the cheese.
- Bake at 200°C until the béchamel sauce is golden brown and the cheese has melted.
The perfect moussaka is light and fluffy, with a golden crust, resting on thick, silky layers of roasted aubergine and minced lamb. Like most recipes originating from the Ottoman Empire, it has different variations all throughout the Balkans, the Levant and Greece. Moussaka Moussaka is a traditional Greek meal with the key ingredients of lamb mince and aubergines, topped with melting cheese that create a mouth-wateringly tasty family meal. The aromatic spices and herbs cooked with the lamb in this moussaka recipe give it a wonderful aroma and fantastic taste. There's nothing quite like this classic dish.
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