Homemade Moussaka

Best to make on a cold day and even better to eat for leftovers the next day
Homemade Moussaka
Best to make on a cold day and even better to eat for leftovers the next day
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Wash and then thinly cut your zucchini, eggplant, onion and potatoes. Cut all length wise into thin strips. Check photo for reference.
- 2
In a pan put olive oil and put on stove to get hot. Then you separately fry for 2-3 mins each vegetable separately. Set all side and make sure each has a slight brown shade after being fried. The next step is to layer your moussaka.
- 3
To start layering the moussaka take out an oven dish and drizzle a little olive oil at the bottom. You then start with the potatoes. Sprinkle a little bit of salt and put some Thyme leaves evenly throughout
- 4
Then you follow the same step in the following order. Potatoes, then zucchini, then onion and lastly the aubergine / egg plant. Make sure there is a little salt and thyme in between each layer.
- 5
Cooking the meat: Thinly cut the remaining onion and the garlic. Heat a pan with olive oil and add the onion and garlic and cook for 2-3 mins till slightly brown. Then add the 2 table spoons of tomato paste and cook for 1min while stirring constantly. Then add the mince meat all in. Continue to stir and cook all till brown. Then add a can of diced tomatoes to the meat and now cook them all for another 15 mins stirring slightly now and again.
- 6
Now to make the Béchamel sauce: take a 100g butter and add to a pan on stove. Let it melt and add 100g of all-purpose flour. Make sure to constantly stir throughout until this mixture starts to thicken. Now add 750ml milk by adding about 150ml at a time until the 750ml is done. (You add 150ml continue to stir and then as thickens add the next 150ml.) etc
Your béchamel will be ready when small bubbles come up in the surface. When this happens remove pan from heat. - 7
Finish off the béchamel: you add one teaspoon of fresh pepper, one teaspoon of nutmeg, 100g of trimmed Parmesan (or cheese of choice), and 3 egg yolks. Mix these all well together in the step above sauce.
- 8
Now you get the cooked mince meat and mix 200ml of the béchamel sauce you have just made and stir well.
- 9
Now place all the mince with the 200ml béchamel sauce (as per above) as the second last layer on top of the eggplant/aubergine.
- 10
Final layer: now add the remaining béchamel sauce on top and some trimmed cheese to finish.
- 11
Then place in 180deg oven and cook for 35-40mins (just keep checking until gets nice and brown on top)
- 12
Now you done and can serve with something fresh on the side. We had some salad and potatoes on side
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@micahsarkas when are we coming to SA for this delicious yummy meal😋