Moussaka
Cooking time: 1 h
Difficulty: Medium recipe
Recipe yield: 6-8 servings
Greek Food Recipes
Moussaka – one of the traditional dishes of Greek cuisine, the basis of moussaka is ground beef, eggplant, cheese and tomatoes.
Moussaka Ingredients
- Eggplants 3-4 pcs
- Minced beef 700 g
- Tomatoes 3-4 pcs
- Hard cheese 200 g
- Onion 1 pcs
- Garlic 3 clove
- Red wine 50 ml
- Butter 100 g
- For the sauce
- Wheat flour 2 tbsp
- Milk 2,5 cup
- Butter 2 tbsp
- Eggs 2 pcs
Moussaka Recipe
To prepare moussaki, wash the eggplants, cut into slices, about 0.5 cm, salt and set aside for 10 minutes. After that, squeeze the eggplants and fry in oil on both sides.
Chop the onion and garlic and fry in the same pan where the eggplants were fried.
Add minced meat to the fried onions, season with salt, pepper and, stirring occasionally, fry with wine. Fry the minced meat for 10 minutes.
In a separate bowl, melt the butter and fry the flour in it, and stir in the milk without stopping.
Cook over medium heat until thickened, add ground nutmeg at the end. Remove sauce from heat and stir in beaten eggs.
Put a layer of eggplant and half of the grated cheese in a baking dish.
Then put a layer of minced meat on the eggplants, etc.
Wash the tomatoes and cut into not very thin slices. Put the tomatoes in the last layer.
Pour the sauce over the food and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
Place moussaka in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 35-40 minutes. Serve the moussaka hot.
