Mousaka with bechamel sauce
Steps Cook Recipes Mousaka with bechamel sauce using 18 ingredients and 4 steps
Mousaka with bechamel sauce - Pour the bechamel sauce over the top, and sprinkle with the nutmeg. First, if you have never prepared Greek food before (ESPECIALLY moussaka) this recipe is very poorly written - it's way too. In this video we make béchamel sauce. This sauce is used to make a coating on moussaka. You can also add in the béchamel some grated hard cheese.
I've been seeing food geniuses doing amazing things with cauliflower I finally settled for a creamy cauliflower bechamel sauce adapted from Lindsay's recipe and it was perfect for this healthy, easy moussaka recipe!
Moussaka is to the Greek what Lasagna is to Italians.
You can have Mousaka with bechamel sauce using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients make Mousaka with bechamel sauce
- Prepare 1.5 cups rice, cooked with salt and turmeric and cardimom.
- You need 500 g mince beef.
- Prepare 1 onion minced.
- You need 2 garlic cloves minced.
- Prepare 1 green pepper chopped.
- You need Potatoes cubed and fried.
- You need Aubergine cubed and fried.
- It's Tomato paste.
- Prepare 1 cup pasta sauce.
- It's Salt, pepper, turmeric, cumin, curry.
- You need Mozzarella cheese.
- Prepare Parsley for decoration.
- You need Bechamel sauce.
- Prepare 2 cups milk.
- Prepare 1 cup cream.
- You need 3 spoons flour.
- It's 25 g butter.
- Prepare Salt, pepper, turmeric.
Mousaka with bechamel sauce instructions
- 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..
Mousaka with bechamel sauce - The bechamel sauce on top is a bit different to lasagna bechamel, too. You make it in a similar way, but then you add parmesan cheese (or pecorino Was always scared to try a Moussaka with all the frying of aubergines, but baking them is brilliant! Absolutely delicious & now a regular feature at home. While moussaka can be time-consuming to prepare, it's worth the effort. It is hearty and filling so you won't need many side dishes to accompany it. Whether you've had moussaka before or this is a first time experience, you're going to LOVE this moussaka recipe with it's incredible depth of flavor and luxuriously creamy bechamel sauce topping! Sun-kissed white stone buildings juxtaposed against a sea of sapphire blue, the sound of old church. Thank you and good luck