Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Moussaka is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Moussaka is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Also, if possible, have a friend/child/spouse on hand to help you out. Get Moussaka Recipe from Food Network. Given that moussaka is normally a labor intensive dish, this is a relatively simple recipe, and easy to follow the steps.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook moussaka using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
- Get 1 large aubergine sliced
- Take 1 large potato thinly sliced
- Get 1 zucchini sliced
- Prepare Olive oil
- Get 100 gms butter
- Get 100 gms flour
- Prepare 1 large onion chopped fine
- Make ready 3-4 garlic cloves chopped
- Get 3/4 th cup milk
- Make ready 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare Salt as per taste
- Prepare 1 tsp pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- Make ready 150 gms shredded gouda cheese 100 gms shredded parmesan
- Make ready 1 beaten egg
- Take 500 gms minced lamb meat
- Get 2 large tomatoes chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp oregano
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. Scatter the breadcrumbs over the bottom of the pan. Lay half of the eggplant in the pan. 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.
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
It is perhaps the most widely recognized of all Greek dishes and was made famous by the legendary Greek chef Nicholas Tselementes. 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! Moussaka is definitely a labor of love. It isn't hard to make at all, but it does involve multiple steps and does take time to make.
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