How to Prepare Moussaka pie in 12 Minutes for Beginners

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, moussaka pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Moussaka Cottage Pie. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. 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.

Moussaka pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Moussaka pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have moussaka pie using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Moussaka pie:

1. Take 500 g ground beef
2. Get 2 eggplants
3. Take 2 dry onions
4. Make ready 2 doses béchamel sauce
5. Prepare 2 packets puff pastry
6. Get 3 tbsp concentrated tomato sauce
7. Make ready olive oil
8. Prepare butter for the baking tray
9. Make ready 1 egg yolk and/or a little milk
10. Prepare salt
11. Take pepper

Moussaka, undoubtedly one of the most well known classic Greek recipes, is traditionally made by layering meat and sliced aubergines (eggplant) and topped with a bechamel sauce. Moussaka, similar to lasagna, this Greek version of this mediterranean casserole is layered with ground meat, bechamel, eggplant and potatoes. Moussaka is a dish I did not appreciate until I was older, I've mentioned before why was that. I make moussaka too and no, I don't think they have too much in common.

Steps to make Moussaka pie:

1. Sauté the onion with the ground meat in olive oil until it separates (make sure it doesn't form any lumps) over medium heat.
2. Add the eggplants, peeled and cut into small cubes, the tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper.
3. Turn down the heat and cook mixing often until all the liquids are absorbed.
4. Remove from heat and add the béchamel sauce.
5. Mix until you have a well combined mixture.
6. Brush your baking tray with butter
7. And line it with the bottom filo sheet.
8. Distribute the filling evenly
9. And top it with the second filo sheet.
10. Brush with a little milk or an egg yolk diluted in milk and poke the top with a fork.
11. Bake at 180°C for 30'-40' depending on the oven
12. (until golden brown).

Shepherd pie is made with minced lamb and topped with mashed potato. This Hairy Bikers' moussaka recipe is a joy to behold, with cinnamon-spiced lamb mingling with aubergines and a delicious creamy sauce. This moussaka is mostly authentic with a couple of twists for added flavor. Traditional moussaka uses ground lamb while most modern versions use ground beef. I took culinary license to add the additional.

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