Tuesday 19 April 2016

Musaka (Moussaka)


Today we travel to Greece, with its beautiful scenery, beaches and pretty villages, to eat their fantastic moussaka, increasingly known in our country. It's delicious!

Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 1 eggplant
- 1 large potato
- 1 onion
- 1/2 zucchini
- 10 oz of minced meat
- 1 clove of garlic
- Olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce
- 2 tablespoons of flour
- 7 oz of milk
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 yolk of egg

Recipe:
- Wash and cut eggplant into slices.
- Fry in a pan with a little olive oil until golden.
- Sprinkle a little salt, pepper and thyme.
- Put them on a plate with paper towels and reserve.
- Wash, peel the potatoes and cut them into very thin slices.
- Peel the onion and cut 3/4 parts of it into julienne. Reserve the other 1/4 for later.
- In the same pan where you have fried eggplant, fry potatoes with the onion you've cut into julienne.
- Sprinkle a little salt, pepper and thyme.
- Put them on a plate with paper towels and reserve.
- Wash, peel and cut the zucchini into thin slices.
- In the same pan where you have fried eggplant, potato and onion, fry zucchini until golden.
- Sprinkle a little salt, pepper and thyme.
- Put them on a plate with paper towels and reserve.
- Cut into cubes the 1/4 onion we have left and fry with a little olive oil.
- Cut into squares the garlic clove and add to the onion.
- Sprinkle cinnamon and stir.
- Add the minced meat and tomato sauce while mixing well until the meat is ready.
- In a different pan, pour a drizzle of olive oil and heat over medium heat.
- Add the flour and a pinch of salt and stir to mix until the flour is brown.
- Pour the milk gradually, stirring until a smooth cream is formed.
- Remove from heat and add the egg yolk. Stir well until blended with bechamel.
- Mix some of the bechamel with minced meat to make it creamier.
- Start serving: first placing a layer with eggplants, over the potatoes and onions and then the zucchini.
- Put another generous layer of minced meat and end with one of bechamel.

* If you want you can sprinkle Parmesan cheese over the bechamel and grate in the oven until golden, although we have opted for lighter version ;-)

Bon appetit!

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