Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pastitsio. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pastitsio is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pastitsio is something that I have loved my entire life.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pastitsio using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Get 1/2 cup Olive Oil
- Make ready 2 lb Ground Beef
- Prepare 1 cup Dry White Wine
- Make ready 14 oz Tomato Puree
- Make ready 1 large Yellow Onion
- Make ready 3 tbsp Chopped Fresh Parsey
- Get 1/2 tsp Ground Allspice
- Get 1 1/2 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
- Prepare 3 tbsp Breadcrumbs
- Take 1 packages Elbow Macaroni
- Get 4 Egg Whites
- Prepare 1 Unsalted Butter
- Make ready 1 Salt and Pepper to taste
- Prepare 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- Get Bechamel Sauce
- Take 1 cup Unsalted Butter
- Take 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- Get 1 quart Milk, warmed
- Prepare 8 Yolks, lightly beaten
- Get 1 pinch 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:
- Heat olive oil in large saute pan. Add ground beef and cook over medium heat. Add onions and cook until translucent.
- Add wine, tomato sauce, parsley, allspice, cinnamon, salt and pepper. Allow to simmer over low heat 10 minutes. While sauce is simmering cook pasta.
- Rinse noodles to cool slightly.
- Stir breadcrumbs into meat sauce to absorb extra liquid. Remove from heat.
- Melt 1/2 cup of butter in pasta pot and return noodles to the pot. Stir in beaten egg whites and 1 cup of Parmesan cheese. Toss lightly, do not break noodles.
- Brush pan with olive oil. Layer bottom with half the noodles. and press down firmly. to make flat.
- Layer beef evenly over pasta. Layer remaining pasta over beef.
- Preheat oven to 350°F and start preparing Bechamel Sauce.
- Melt butter in sauce pan over low heat. Using a whisk add flour continuously stirring to make smooth. Allow mixture to cook not brown.
- Add warm milk in a steady stream, whisking continuously. Simmer over low heat until thickened but does not boil.
- Remove from heat and add in beaten yolks. Add a pinch of nutmeg.
- Bechamel Sauce is thicker than gravy but not as thick as pudding. Pour sauce over noodles making sure to pour down into the corners. Layer with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake 45 minutes or until golden.
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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