Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, sophia's moussaka. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Greek eggplant casserole with a delicious meat sauce and béchamel topping. Sophia's Moussaka Moussaka is an expensive and cumbersome dish to make. So, it takes time and patience. Moussaka is an expensive and cumbersome dish to make.
Sophia's Moussaka is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Sophia's Moussaka is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have sophia's moussaka using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sophia's Moussaka:
- Get For frying
- Prepare For frying
- Make ready 2 kg potatoes
- Get 4 eggplants
- Make ready 4 large zucchinis
- Prepare For the filling
- Take For the filling
- Make ready 1 cup olive oil
- Get 1.5 kg mixed mince (beef and pork)
- Get 1 large dry onion
- Prepare parsley and dill
- Make ready 500 g tomato sauce
- Prepare 1 stock cube
- Make ready salt and pepper
- Get 1/2 kg feta cheese
- Prepare For the béchamel
- Prepare For the béchamel
- Prepare 200 g margarine
- Prepare 1 cup vegetable oil
- Take 6 tbsp flour
- Prepare 1.5 l milk
- Prepare salt - pepper
- Make ready 150 g Gouda cheese
Moussaka is one of those dishes that intimidates most as it is so time-consuming. It's the preparation that challenges us, but I have tried may different approaches to recommend only one way of preparing the eggplant, potatoes, and pumpkin so they are tasty and healthily prepared. We used to shallow fry the eggplant. Add the basil just before layering your moussaka.
Steps to make Sophia's Moussaka:
- Peel and cut the potatoes and eggplants into round shapes. Cut the zucchini first into two halves and then in slices.
- Fry everything in the evening and leave them overnight in a strainer so that the oil drains.The following day, sauté the onion in the olive oil, then add the mince, after that, the sauce, parsley, dill, the stock cube, salt and pepper. Let it boil for 15 minutes.
- To make the béchamel, put the margarine and the vegetable oil in a pot to brown, add the flour and whisk. About a minute later, add the milk, salt and pepper.
- Take a 30x40 baking tray and start the layers, beginning with the potatoes.
- Arrange the potatoes next to one another and if you have more, use them to fill in the empty spaces.
- Then, layer the zucchinis and on top of them, the mince, sprinkling 250 g feta cheese on top.
- Cover the mince and the feta cheese with a layer of eggplants then another layer of mince and the rest 250 g of the feta cheese.
- Slowly pour the béchamel over the top and sprinkle with the 150 g of Gouda.
- Bake in a convection oven at 150°C, for 1 hour.
We used to shallow fry the eggplant. Add the basil just before layering your moussaka. Make the béchamel sauce by heating the oil, adding the flour, and stirring till well mixed. Add the milk, and whisk well until thickened. Add the grated cheese, and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
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