Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Also, if possible, have a friend/child/spouse on hand to help you out. Given that moussaka is normally a labor intensive dish, this is a relatively simple recipe, and easy to follow the steps. I didn't have allspice, so I substituted cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove.
Homemade Moussaka is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Homemade Moussaka is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook homemade moussaka using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Moussaka:
- Prepare 500 gr beef mice or lamb mince
- Make ready 150 gr mushroom
- Make ready 1 can chopped tomatoes
- Make ready 1 tbsp cinnamon
- Get 2 tsp all spice
- Make ready 1 brown onion
- Make ready 6-7 potatoes
- Get 1 clove garlic
- Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 50 gr butter
- Make ready 50 gr plain flour
- Make ready 400 ml milk
- Make ready Bay leave
- Prepare Nutmeg
Food is served just warm or at room temperature (but cooked that day - otherwise it is reheated. Greek moussaka (mousaka) is one of the most popular dishes in Greece, served in almost every tavern and prepared in every household on special occasions and big family meals and for good reason! Get Moussaka Recipe from Food Network. The epitome of Greek comfort food, moussaka is basically a hearty eggplant casserole with a juicy, flavor-packed meat sauce.
Instructions to make Homemade Moussaka:
- Heat the olive oil and add onion until it’s soft and then add garlic, mushroom cook about 3 mins. After that add mice and cook until it’s brown. Add tomatoes can, cinnamon, all spices and seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Cut potatoes into thin slice and boil about 5mins
- Make the bechamel. Melt the butter in a medium heat and add flour and whisk it. Slowly add milk into it. Whisking all the time. Seasoning with salt and pepper and add bay leaves and nutmeg until it’s thicker
- Layer some slice potatoes in a pan 25*16 and add some of the mixed beef. Drizzle the bechamel. Repeat it again until finish and top with the bechamel.
- Preheat the oven 200 degree and cook about 40-50 mins until the bechamel is golden.
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. Use olive or coconut oil or a vegan butter to replace the regular butter. It will not taste exactly the same but it will still make for a creamy topping for your moussaka. Veggie layers: Moussaka is a recipe that is widely spread in the Mediterranean and almost everyone has his own recipe for it. I grew up to a simpler version without the bechamel layer.
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