Moussaka recipe:
4 eggplants sliced into 1 cm slices.
Spray with oil spray or brush with olive oil.
Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 5 minutes.
Remove from the oven and cool.
For the meat mixture:
400 grams of ground beef
400 grams of ground chicken or turkey
2 eggs
1 medium onion
1 medium potato
3 cloves of garlic
1 handful of parsley leaves
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 and a half cups bread crumbs
2 flat teaspoons salt
Half a teaspoon of black pepper
A quarter teaspoon of cumin
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon paprika
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What do we do?
1. Grind all ingredients except the meat in a food processor.
2. After grinding, mix with the meats and let it rest in the refrigerator, covered, for half an hour.
3. After half an hour, roll the eggplants into balls and place in a baking dish.
For the tomato sauce:
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, fry a medium onion in small cubes until browned.
Add 1 crushed garlic clove.
2 ripe tomatoes, cut into small cubes. Continue cooking until softened, about 5 minutes.
Then add to the pot:
500 grams tomato paste
3 cups of water
2 tablespoons sugar
Half a teaspoon of black pepper
A teaspoon of salt
What do we do?
1. Bring to a boil and turn off the heat.
2. Pour over the eggplants. Cover with foil and bake for about an hour at 180 degrees.
3. Remove the cover and bake for another fifteen minutes.
So how do we upgrade our moussaka?
• Take the moussaka rolls before arranging them in the pan, and just as you would expect from a schnitzel, dip the moussaka rolls in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs. Arrange them on a baking sheet, slightly spaced apart, and spray the top with oil. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 for about 45 minutes. You should get a golden and crispy coating.
To serve: Pour the tomato sauce over the top while it is hot, just before serving.
• The beef can be replaced with lamb and cinnamon and Bharat spice can be added, which will give the dish a completely different taste and aroma.
To serve: Warm tomato sauce on top. Since lamb goes very well with pine nuts, a few toasted pine nuts on top will only enhance the dish. Also, the tomato sauce can be replaced with mushroom sauce.
• Eggplants in particular?! That's right, you can also do it with other vegetables. You can do it with slices of zucchini and/or zucchini. Baked sweet potato slices. But here you need to work very carefully, so that it doesn't fall apart.
• Fish-based moussaka, have you heard?! So that also exists. Replace the minced meat with minced fish, each with the type of fish they like to work with. To the extent
And the fish comes coated with a layer of ice. It is necessary to thoroughly squeeze the fish from the water that has been absorbed into it before frying, so that the mixture is not too thin.
If the dough is thin, add more breadcrumbs until the desired texture is reached.
You can add a little lemon to the tomato sauce, which will go great with the fish. You can also serve with lemon slices and/or finely chopped pickled lemon.
