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The creamy béchamel sauce is the most essential part for a traditional Greek moussaka recipe and probably the trickiest part too. To achieve the perfect texture for your béchamel sauce, add the milk (preferably lukewarm) a little bit at a time whilst constantly stirring. Learn How to make Traditional Greek Moussaka.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mousaka with bechamel sauce using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mousaka with bechamel sauce:
- Make ready rice, cooked with salt and turmeric and cardimom
- Make ready mince beef
- Take onion minced
- Get garlic cloves minced
- Prepare green pepper chopped
- Prepare Potatoes cubed and fried
- Get Aubergine cubed and fried
- Get Tomato paste
- Make ready pasta sauce
- Get Salt, pepper, turmeric, cumin, curry
- Prepare Mozzarella cheese
- Get Parsley for decoration
- Get Bechamel sauce
- Prepare milk
- Make ready cream
- Make ready flour
- Prepare butter
- Take Salt, pepper, turmeric
First of all, the key is to whisk the sauce constantly while pouring just a little milk at a time, allowing plenty of time for the flour to absorb the milk, so that sauce doesn't turn. In this easy moussaka recipe, cinnamon-spiced beef mingles with tender aubergine slices, a creamy cauliflower bechamel sauce and a delightful parmesan cheese crust. A healthy twist on the famous Greek Beef and Eggplant Casserole. Then, there's the Bechamel sauce which should be thick but never lumpy.
Instructions to make Mousaka with bechamel sauce:
- Fry minced beef till it browns then add onion, garlic and fry together. Then add pepper and the spices and mix. Then add tomato paste and sauce. Finally add potatoes and aubergine
- Bechamel sauce: Melt butter then add flour and mix till it becomes a smooth paste. Then slowly pour the milk while stirring at the same time. Then add the cream and keep stirring till it becomes thick. Then add salt, pepper and turmeric.
- Grease pyrex bowl with butter then add a layer of the cooked rice. On top add a layer of the mix that was prepared in previous steps. And then the bechamel sauce.
- Top with grated mozzarella then put in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Decorate with chopped parsley.
For best results, remember that each component of the moussaka must be sufficiently seasoned. If, however, you plan to use plenty of Parmesan, you may want to underseason the. To prepare the bechamel sauce, melt the butter. Add the flour and stir until bubbly. Don't let the flour darken or burn.
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