Moussaka
Moussaka

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have moussaka using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Lay half of the eggplant in the pan. w. The epitome of Greek comfort food, moussaka is basically a hearty eggplant casserole with a juicy, flavor-packed meat sauce. Topping the meat is either a rich bechamel sauce- a French influence that was introduced later-or, as in today's Moussaka recipe, a cheese-based topping. Greek moussaka is a casserole made by layering eggplant and potatoes with a spiced meat filling, then topping it off with a creamy egg-enriched béchamel sauce (white sauce) and baking it to golden perfection.

Instructions 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

It is perhaps the most widely recognized of all Greek dishes and was made famous by the legendary Greek chef Nicholas Tselementes. Make our easy moussaka for an instant crowd pleaser. This classic Greek dish of layered thinly sliced potato, aubergine and lamb is topped with a creamy béchamel sauce. 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!

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