Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mousaka with bechamel sauce. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The creamy béchamel sauce is the most essential part for a traditional Greek moussaka recipe and probably the trickiest part too. To achieve the perfect texture for your béchamel sauce, add the milk (preferably lukewarm) a little bit at a time whilst constantly stirring. Learn How to make Traditional Greek Moussaka.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have mousaka with bechamel sauce using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mousaka with bechamel sauce:
- Get 1.5 cups rice, cooked with salt and turmeric and cardimom
- Take 500 g mince beef
- Make ready 1 onion minced
- Get 2 garlic cloves minced
- Get 1 green pepper chopped
- Prepare Potatoes cubed and fried
- Prepare Aubergine cubed and fried
- Get Tomato paste
- Make ready 1 cup pasta sauce
- Prepare Salt, pepper, turmeric, cumin, curry
- Get Mozzarella cheese
- Get Parsley for decoration
- Prepare Bechamel sauce
- Prepare 2 cups milk
- Make ready 1 cup cream
- Take 3 spoons flour
- Get 25 g butter
- Prepare Salt, pepper, turmeric
First of all, the key is to whisk the sauce constantly while pouring just a little milk at a time, allowing plenty of time for the flour to absorb the milk, so that sauce doesn't turn. In this easy moussaka recipe, cinnamon-spiced beef mingles with tender aubergine slices, a creamy cauliflower bechamel sauce and a delightful parmesan cheese crust. A healthy twist on the famous Greek Beef and Eggplant Casserole. Then, there's the Bechamel sauce which should be thick but never lumpy.
Instructions to make Mousaka with bechamel sauce:
- Fry minced beef till it browns then add onion, garlic and fry together. Then add pepper and the spices and mix. Then add tomato paste and sauce. Finally add potatoes and aubergine
- Bechamel sauce: Melt butter then add flour and mix till it becomes a smooth paste. Then slowly pour the milk while stirring at the same time. Then add the cream and keep stirring till it becomes thick. Then add salt, pepper and turmeric.
- Grease pyrex bowl with butter then add a layer of the cooked rice. On top add a layer of the mix that was prepared in previous steps. And then the bechamel sauce.
- Top with grated mozzarella then put in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Decorate with chopped parsley.
For best results, remember that each component of the moussaka must be sufficiently seasoned. If, however, you plan to use plenty of Parmesan, you may want to underseason the. To prepare the bechamel sauce, melt the butter. Add the flour and stir until bubbly. Don't let the flour darken or burn.
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