Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, classic moussakas. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The classic spice in a moussaka is cinnamon. You might think it's strange to add what is traditionally a sweet spice to a savoury dish but it works brilliantly with rich lamb and tomatoes and gives the sauce its distinctive flavour. Classic moussaka is made by layering potatoes, eggplants, and a meaty lamb sauce, and then covering the dish in an egg-enriched béchamel sauce that crisps up and becomes golden brown in the oven.

Classic Moussakas is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Classic Moussakas is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook classic moussakas using 26 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Moussakas:

1. Prepare large Eggplants (thinly sliced round pieces)
2. Take large Potatoes (thinly sliced round pieces)
3. Prepare minced Beef or Lamb
4. Get medium Onions diced
5. Prepare Garlic Cloves minced
6. Get fresh graded Tomatoes
7. Get White Wine
8. Make ready plain breadcrumbs
9. Make ready fresh Parsley chopped
10. Get Oregano
11. Get Sugar
12. Prepare – 3 tablespoons of cooking Butter
13. Prepare shredded Cheese
14. Prepare Eggs beaten
15. Get Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil
16. Make ready Salt
17. Prepare Pepper
18. Make ready Water
19. Make ready Bechamel Sauce
20. Take flour
21. Make ready cooking butter
22. Take coffee cups of Milk
23. Make ready Salt and Pepper
24. Take beaten eggs
25. Prepare shredded cheese
26. Prepare Portions:

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Instructions to make Classic Moussakas:

1. In a large sauce pan, saute the onions, garlic in 3 tablespoons of butter. Add in the beef and stir until golden brown, then gradually add in the wine. Toss in the tomatoes, water, salt and pepper, parsley, oregano and sugar. Let this boil for about 1/2 hour. When the beef sauce is done take it off the stove and add in the beaten eggs, the breadcrumbs and 1/2 cup of the shredded cheese. Set it a side.
2. In a large frying pan add in the 1/2 cup Olive oil or Vegetable Oil, and fry the eggplant and potatoes until lightly brown. Take a deep buttered baking pan and start layering in the potatoes, (the potatoes actually cover the bottom of your pan), and then continue layering the eggplant slices on top. Add your beef sauce on top of the eggplants and spread throughout the pan.
3. In a large sauce pan, melt butter on low heat with a whisk and slowly add 1 tablespoon of flour at a time, gradually add the milk, whisk continuously. Add in all the other ingredients and stir until your Bechamel sauce has thicken. Pour on top of the meat sauce and spread.
4. Bake at 180 degrees for 1 hour and until Bechamel sauce is golden brown.
5. Kali Orexi!! :) Enjoy!!

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