Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, moussaka. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first 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. Get eggplants
2. Prepare potatoes
3. Get kefalotyri cheese, grated (you can substitute it with Pecorino Romano or Parmezan)
4. Take salt, pepper, sugar
5. Get parsley, finely chopped
6. Prepare Meat filling
7. Take ground beef
8. Prepare chopped peeled tomatoes
9. Take tomato paste
10. Take white wine (retsina if available)
11. Take onions, finely chopped
12. Take olive oil
13. Prepare beef stock cube
14. Get egg whites
15. Make ready each cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt
16. Get garlic
17. Get 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. Prepare 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. 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. w.

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.

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. Greek Moussaka recipe - A delicious taste of Greece. 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! Scatter the breadcrumbs over the bottom of the pan.

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