Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pastitsio. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pastitsio is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Pastitsio is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Take 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
- Take 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
- Take butter
- Take For the mince layer
- Take 750 g ground beef
- Prepare 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Take olive oil
- Get 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
- Get 500 ml Passata
- Take salt
- Prepare pepper
- Get ground nutmeg
- Take 500 ml water
- Make ready 200 ml red wine
- Prepare For the bechamel sauce
- Take 7-8 tbsp flour
- Get 250 g butter or margarine
- Take 4 eggs
- Get 1 can evaporated milk
- Take 1 can water (use the now empty milk can)
- Prepare 300 g grated cheese (this portion is taken from the 500 g grated earlier)
- Prepare salt
- Make ready pepper
- Take 1 level tsp ground nutmeg
Traditional Greek pastitsio (παστίτσιο, pastítsio) is an authentic Greek Lasagne - a baked dish that combines layers of pasta, ground meat and velvety béchamel sauce to create the ultimate comfort food. Bring a large saucepan of lightly salted water to the boil. While pasta is cooking, separate meat in a skillet or shallow pan. Add salt, pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon; and a little water to help cook if necessary.
Instructions 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.
While pasta is cooking, separate meat in a skillet or shallow pan. Add salt, pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon; and a little water to help cook if necessary. I'm sharing my mom's version of Greek pastitsio, a delectable, flavor-packed baked pasta. Serves a crowd, and they won't even know that it's lightened up! If I were to ask you about a dish that might have defined the holidays for you as a child, what would it be?
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