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[PASTITSIO] A few summers ago, some friends from America were staying at my house in Paros. I made pastitsio and baked it in the wood-fired oven. I have never had a tastier pastitsio!

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pastitsio with vegetables by argyro - awesome using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio with vegetables by Argyro - Awesome:

1. Prepare 12 sheets lasagna, I used 500 g rigatoni
2. Get 3 colored peppers -not green- I used yellow, orange and red
3. Get 2 eggplants
4. Prepare 2 zucchinis
5. Take 1/2 cup olive oil
6. Prepare 2 1/2 cups graviera (Greek traditional hard cheese) or kasseri ( Greek traditional medium-hard pale yellow cheese)
7. Make ready half a cup of kefalotyri (Greek traditional hard salty yellow cheese)
8. Prepare For the sauce
9. Get 1 kg tomato coarsely chopped
10. Prepare 1 clove garlic
11. Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil
12. Prepare salt
13. Take pepper
14. Make ready parsley and a little oregano
15. Prepare For the béchamel sauce
16. Take 3 tbsp butter or olive oil
17. Take half a leek, finely chopped
18. Prepare 3 full tbsp flour
19. Get 750 g tepid milk
20. Make ready half a cup kefalotyri
21. Take salt

Pour on cream sauce and spread to completely cover ziti. Test Kitchen Tips; To save time and avoid dirtying a dish, feel free to skip the draining step after cooking the beef and onions. The sauce will be slightly richer, but sirloin is fairly lean so there shouldn't be much fat in the pan. Cook the pasta to al dante according to package instructions.

Steps to make Pastitsio with vegetables by Argyro - Awesome:

1. Sauté all the vegetables, finely chopped, in the olive oil until they are nicely tender.
2. Boil the sauce for about 10 minutes with the oil, the salt, pepper and the clove of garlic that you add whole to simply let out its flavor.
3. Remove the clove of garlic ten minutes later and add a little oregano.
4. Spread plenty of sauce on the baking tray, then the pasta, unboiled, then the vegetables and finally the cheeses.
5. Do this twice, to make two layers in the same order.
6. Prepare the béchamel saucesauté the finely chopped leek in the butter or olive oil until tender.
7. Then add the flour and mix constantly so that it cooks nicely.
8. Remove the pot from heat and add the tepid water gradually mixing well so that the sauce thickens and doesn't get any lumps.
9. When you have added all the milk boil it for a while to thicken but not too much, then add the kefalotyri and after you have stirred it for a while so that the cheese is incorporated, pour it over the last layer of the baking tray making sure it is evenly distributed.
10. Bake at 200°C without the fan for about an hour, depending on your oven. I baked it for an hour and a quarter because I chopped my vegetables into slightly larger pieces. It is divine!

Be sure to add salt and olive oil to the boiling water. While meat is simmering, boil the pasta to al dente. Remove, drain and shock in cold water. Pastitsio can be made without meat and only with vegetables, with a ragù (meat with sauce) and Béchamel topping, without the Béchamel but an egg based custard, with a topping of Riccotta cheese, etc. In fact, one can find versions of Pastitsio not just within Greece but throughout the Mediterranean.

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