Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Moussaka is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Moussaka is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook moussaka using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:

1. Prepare 1 kg eggplants
2. Get 1 kg potatoes
3. Make ready 125 g kefalotyri cheese, grated (you can substitute it with Pecorino Romano or Parmezan)
4. Get salt, pepper, sugar
5. Get 1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
6. Prepare Meat filling
7. Make ready 1 kg ground beef
8. Make ready 350 g chopped peeled tomatoes
9. Prepare 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
10. Prepare 125 ml white wine (retsina if available)
11. Get 2 onions, finely chopped
12. Get 75 ml olive oil
13. Get 1 beef stock cube
14. Prepare 4 egg whites
15. Get 1 pinch each cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt
16. Get 2-4 cloves garlic
17. Make ready 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)

While it takes a bit of time, it's actually quite simple to make. Moussaka (/ m uː ˈ s ɑː k ə /, / ˌ m uː s ə ˈ k ɑː / or / ˌ m uː s ɑː ˈ k ɑː /) is an eggplant- and/or potato-based dish, often including ground meat, which is common in the Balkans and the Middle East, with many local and regional variations. The epitome of Greek comfort food, moussaka is basically a hearty eggplant casserole with a juicy, flavor-packed meat sauce. 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.

Steps 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.

Although moussaka is a dish most associated with Greece, it is in fact well known in many other countries in the Middle East, each having its own version of this hearty and filling casserole. 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. Scatter the breadcrumbs over the bottom of the pan. Lay half of the eggplant in the pan. Greek Moussaka recipe - A delicious taste of Greece.

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