Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Moussaka is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Moussaka is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook moussaka using 27 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Moussaka:
- Prepare Meat
- Take large aubergine, sliced into 1cm slices
- Prepare olive oil, divided
- Get red onions diced
- Take minced lamb
- Take garlic, minced
- Get cumin
- Take ground coriander
- Prepare cinnamon
- Take cayenne pepper
- Get tin chopped tomatoes
- Make ready red wine
- Make ready water
- Prepare tomato puree
- Prepare bay leaf
- Take dried thyme
- Prepare dried oregano
- Take dried mint
- Get Maris Piper potatoes, peeled, sliced into 1cm slices
- Take White Sauce
- Get milk
- Get butter
- Make ready flour
- Take grated nutmeg
- Take crumbled feta cheese (grated Parmasan or Cheddar can be use
- Get ricotta
- Prepare egg
Instructions to make Moussaka:
- Sprinkle the aubergine with salt and leave for 30 minutes (draws out bitter juices). Then rinse aubergine in a colander and squeeze out excess liquid. Dry well with a kitchen cloth. Add to roasting tin and add 1 teaspoon olive oil. Mix to give a good coating. Roast for 30 minutes.
- Heat 1 teaspoon olive oil in a pan over medium high heat. Add mince, break up with a fork till browned. Add garlic, cayenne, cumin, cinnamon and coriander, stir for 1-2 minutes. Add herbs, wine tomatoes and puree. Stir. Turn down the heat to very low and simmer, covered for 30 minutes. Remove lid and allow liquid to reduce. Leave to rest overnight.
- Cook the potatoes in boiling water for five minutes, then drain in a colander under running water until cold.
- Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4.
- Meanwhile, melt butter in pan, then remove from heat and add flour and mix, return to heat and slowly mix in the milk. Stir over a medium heat until thickened. Season and add cheese and ricotta, stir. Leave to cool.
- Spoon one third of the meat sauce into a large, shallow ovenproof dish. Cover with a layer of potatoes and a layer of aubergines. Repeat the layers twice more, finishing with the aubergines.
- Lightly whisk egg in a separate bowl and then stir into white sauce. Top with white sauce and bake in oven for 50 minutes.
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