Recipe of Award-winning Moussaka

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, Recipe of Quick Moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Many things affect the quality of taste from Moussaka, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Moussaka delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.
As for the number of servings that can be served to make Moussaka is 6 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook Moussaka using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Sierra-style comfort food: moussaka with rice. Add a (small!) pinch of cinnamon to the meat sauce as an optional kick.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Moussaka:
- 3 onions
- 3 cloves garlic
- 6 TBSP olive oil
- 4 TBSP freshly chopped parsley
- 800 g minced meat (mixed, pork and beef)
- 200 ml red wine
- 1 can peeled tomatoes or 5 fresh tomatoes, chopped
- 3 TBSP tomato paste
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- 3 eggplants
- 50 g butter
- 50 g flour
- 500 ml milk
- 150 g grated cheese
Steps to make Moussaka
- Cut the eggplants into slices lengthwise. Sprinkle each side of the slices with salt and stack on a plate with layers of paper towel. Let sit until the frying step to draw out moisture.
- Dice the onions and garlic and fry in a pan with olive oil. Add the meat and let brown.
- Add tomato paste to the meat and let fry a bit longer. Add tomatoes, wine, parsley, salt, pepper, thyme and cinnamon to the meat. Let the sauce simmer for 30 min and then season to taste.
- To make the bèchamel, add the butter into a pot and melt over low heat. Add the flour and whisk to a smooth paste. Let the paste cook and bubble a bit but don't let it brown. Whisk in the milk, turn up the heat and bring to a boil while stirring constantly. Once the sauce has thickened, turn off the heat and season with salt, nutmeg and pepper. Set aside.
- Dab the eggplant slices with paper towel to remove the moisture. Fry them in a pan with olive oil, about 1 min from each side. Set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Take a large casserole dish and grease with butter. Rub the dish with half a clove of garlic.
- Assemble the moussaka in the following order: eggplant - meat sauce - bèchamel, until all components are used up. Finish off with an eggplant layer. Top off with grated cheese. Bake for 10 min. If the cheese doesn't brown quickly enough, change the oven setting to a high grill for a few minutes.
- Serve with rice and a green salad.
While that is by no means the end all be all guide to cooking easy and quick lunches it's great food for thought. The hope is that this will get your creative juices flowing so you could prepare wonderful lunches for your own family without the need to do too much heavy cooking through the approach.
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