Recipe of Favorite Moussaka

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Moussaka is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:

1. Take 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. Make ready salt, pepper, sugar
5. Take 1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
6. Take Meat filling
7. Prepare 1 kg ground beef
8. Take 350 g chopped peeled tomatoes
9. Get 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
10. Prepare 125 ml white wine (retsina if available)
11. Get 2 onions, finely chopped
12. Prepare 75 ml olive oil
13. Prepare 1 beef stock cube
14. Prepare 4 egg whites
15. Get 1 pinch each cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt
16. Prepare 2-4 cloves garlic
17. Take herbs1 tbsp parsley, 1 tbsp mint, all chopped finely
18. Make ready 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)

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.

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