Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pastitsio. It is 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.
Pastitsio, my Dad's amazing - Greek Lasagna Pastitsio is a favorite traditional Greek dinner recipe. It's a Greek version of lasagna- characterized How do you make Pastitsio?
Pastitsio is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pastitsio is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Get 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
- Get 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
- Prepare butter
- Get For the mince layer
- Take 750 g ground beef
- Take 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Get olive oil
- Prepare 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
- Make ready 500 ml Passata
- Make ready salt
- Make ready pepper
- Get ground nutmeg
- Make ready 500 ml water
- Get 200 ml red wine
- Make ready For the bechamel sauce
- Get 7-8 tbsp flour
- Take 250 g butter or margarine
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 can evaporated milk
- Make ready 1 can water (use the now empty milk can)
- Prepare 300 g grated cheese (this portion is taken from the 500 g grated earlier)
- Get salt
- Take pepper
- Take 1 level tsp ground nutmeg
A delicious Greek recipe made with ziti pasta, ground meat, béchamel sauce cheeses and herbs! A baked Greek pasta with flavorful lamb (or beef) bolognese & nutmeg-infused bechamel. Pastitsio - layers of pasta and minced meat in tomato sauce, covered in bechamel, baked to crispy perfection. Pastitsio is one of my favorite baked pasta dishes.
Steps to make Pastitsio:
- Boil the pasta in salted water.
- Strain the pasta using a colander and rinse with cold water.
- Melt 2 tbsp butter in the pot and return the pasta into the pot tossing it well to coat it with the melted butter. Leave it aside to cool.
- Preparing the mince Sauté the onion and mince in the heated oil until the mince is browned.
- Add the fresh tomatoes, passata, salt, pepper, nutmeg, water, and allow to simmer for approximately 40 minutes (or until most of the liquid is reduced). Just before removing the mixture from the heat, add the wine. Let the mince mixture to cool.
- To prepare the bechamel sauce Melt the margarine in a saucepan over medium heat, and add the flour, whisking constantly till flour is lightly browned.
- While whisking constantly, pour in slowly the evaporated milk, water, eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and finally add the grated cheese. As soon as the sauce thickens, remove from heat and allow it to cool.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- In a well greased ovenproof dish, place 2/3 of the pasta to create a bottom layer. Level out and sprinkle with some of the remaining 200g grated cheese.
- Next spread the mince on top of the pasta.
- Cover the mince with the remaining pasta, and more of the grated cheese.
- Cover the whole pastitsio with the bechamel sauce, and sprinkle with the remaining cheese, which will add extra flavour as well as a golden colour to the finished dish.
- Place dish in the pre-heated over and bake for approximately 1 hour.
My husband made this recipe for us a couple of I have tried several pastitsio recipes this is by far the best and most authentic. Pastitsio is to Greeks what lasagne are to the Italians and what mac and cheese is to Americans - intensely In Greece, pastitsio is often enjoyed in February, during the weeks that precede Lent. Cinnamon and nutmeg add a warm, spicy note to noodles covered in a creamy Parmesan bechamel. See the recipe for Greek Lasagne (Pastitsio) » Michael Kraus. Pastitsio is a creamy, cheesy pasta dish that is sometimes called Greek lasagna, but it's made with large tubular pasta.
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