Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Speedy Moussaka

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Moussaka is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Moussaka is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook moussaka using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:

1. Take 1 kg eggplants
2. Prepare 1 kg potatoes
3. Take 125 g kefalotyri cheese, grated (you can substitute it with Pecorino Romano or Parmezan)
4. Make ready salt, pepper, sugar
5. Make ready 1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
6. Get Meat filling
7. Prepare 1 kg ground beef
8. Get 350 g chopped peeled tomatoes
9. Get 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
10. Make ready 125 ml white wine (retsina if available)
11. Make ready 2 onions, finely chopped
12. Get 75 ml olive oil
13. Make ready 1 beef stock cube
14. Make ready 4 egg whites
15. Take 1 pinch each cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt
16. Get 2-4 cloves garlic
17. Prepare herbs1 tbsp parsley, 1 tbsp mint, all chopped finely
18. Take spices2 pinches oregano, 1 pinch each of ground cloves, ground cinnamon, ground coriander, and 1/2 of a bay leaf.
19. Make ready 4 cups bechamel sauce (with the 4 egg yolks)

Instructions to make Moussaka:

1. Slice the eggplants into long slices, approximately 1 cm thick.  Salt them, and let them stand for 30 minutes.  Wash the salt off, strain them and pat them very dry with kitchen paper.
2. Slice the potatoes into 1 cm thick slices and fry them as well as the eggplants, in plenty of hot oil.  Let them strain on absorbent paper.
3. Prepare the meat filling.  In a saucepan, bring the oil to heat and lightly sauté the onion and the ground beef, until the ground beef is no longer pink.  Add the wine and the stock cube.  Add the spices, a little water and let the meat simmer for 45 minutes.
4. Then add the tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, herbs, and the salt.  Allow to simmer until the sauce has thickened.
5. Remove from the heat and allow to cool a little.  Stir in the egg whites.
6. Prepare  the bechamel sauce.  Take care to only add the egg yolks once the sauce has cooled a little.
7. In an ovenproof dish, layer first the potato slices, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with half the chopped parsley, a little sugar, and 1/3 of the grated cheese. Next layer the meat filling, and finish off with a layer of the eggplant slices, which we season as the potatoes.  Spread the bechamel sauce over, sprinkle with the remaining grated cheese, and bake at 180 degrees for approximately 1 hour.

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