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Prepare the béchamel sauce for the moussaka. Use a large pan to melt some butter over low-medium heat. Add the flour whisking continuously to make a paste.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mousaka with bechamel sauce using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mousaka with bechamel sauce:
- Take 1.5 cups rice, cooked with salt and turmeric and cardimom
- Prepare 500 g mince beef
- Prepare 1 onion minced
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves minced
- Make ready 1 green pepper chopped
- Take Potatoes cubed and fried
- Get Aubergine cubed and fried
- Get Tomato paste
- Get 1 cup pasta sauce
- Make ready Salt, pepper, turmeric, cumin, curry
- Make ready Mozzarella cheese
- Prepare Parsley for decoration
- Get Bechamel sauce
- Prepare 2 cups milk
- Get 1 cup cream
- Prepare 3 spoons flour
- Take 25 g butter
- Prepare Salt, pepper, turmeric
Don't let the flour darken or burn. Pour the bechamel sauce on the ground beef mixture. 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.
Steps 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.
Then, there's the Bechamel sauce which should be thick but never lumpy. 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. Moussaka is to the Greek what Lasagna is to Italians. A rich tomato meat sauce layered with eggplant instead of pasta sheets, and topped with a thick layer of béchamel sauce, this traditional Greek recipe takes time to assemble - but it's well worth the effort.
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