Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, greek mussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Greek Mussaka is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Greek Mussaka is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek mussaka using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Mussaka:
- Get 2 large aubergines (A)
- Make ready 5 medium sized white potatoes (A)
- Take 1 medium red onion (B)
- Prepare 3 tablespoons olive oil (B)
- Make ready 1 clove garlic (B)
- Get 750 grams ground beef and lamb meat (B)
- Make ready 1 TSP seven spices (B)
- Take black pepper (B)
- Take 1 TSP salt (B)
- Make ready 1 tablespoon grape molasses (B)
- Take 1 TSP vinegar (B)
- Prepare 2 bay leaves (C)
- Take 3 clovers (C)
- Prepare 1 pinch ground nutmeg (C)
- Get 1 liter milk (C)
- Make ready 80 grams butter (C)
- Get half a cup of flour (C)
- Get 500 grams grated parmesan cheese (C)
Steps to make Greek Mussaka:
- Peel, cut and salt the aubergines. Load them in a colander with a weight to remove moisture.
- Fry the aubergine slices in vegetable oil.
- Peel, cut and fry the potatoes.
- Start to prepare your Mussaka pan. The first layer consists of fried potatoes, while second layer consists of fried aubergine.
- Finely chop the onion, fry in olive oil, add minced garlic clove when onion is ready. Later add the meat. Stir on medium heat. Add the other ingredients as the meat browns and gets almost cooked.
- The minced meat comprises the third layer in the pan. Spread more aubergines to make a fourth layer.
- Boil milk with its spices in a saucepan over medium heat. In a separate saucepan melt the butter then gradually add sifted flour while continuously whisking over low heat.
- Gradually ladle milk over the butter and flour mixture whisking without interruption till the whole milk quantity is used up. Add half the parmesan cheese into the white sauce.
- The white sauce makes up the top layer (fifth layer). Sprinkle the remaining parmesan cheese on top.
- Cook for 30 min in a 180 degrees C oven uncovered. Broil for an extra 5 - 10 minutes to give the pan a golden brown surface.
- Remove from the oven and wait for 15 minutes before cutting and serving. Enjoy a premium dinner.
- Eat with yoghurt.
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