Iftar Recipe: How to Make Moussaka At Home

Making a new dinner or Iftar at home can bring thousands of smiles together. In this situation of self-quarantine and lockdown, getting creative and honing cooking skills becomes even more important.
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One of the dishes that you can try at home is to create this traditional dish Moussaka. It is originally a Greek dish, but it looks like Italian. You can try this at home as it is very easy and affordable. Here is how you make Moussaka:
Ingredients:
- 3 eggplants
- Salt and pepper for seasoning
- 3 potatoes
- 1 large onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 700g of minced beef
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 260g tomato sauce
- 1 cup beef broth or stock
- 1L of milk
- 120g butter
- 120g flour
- 85g of grated parmesan cheese
- 2 egg yolks
Methods:
Vegetables:
- Slice the eggplants thinly
- Season with salt and pepper, set aside
- Peel the potatoes and slice thinly
- Fry the potatoes in hot oil until golden
- Fry the eggplant slices in hot oil until golden (remember to pat them dry before)
Meat:
- Chop the onion
- Crush the garlic cloves
- Saute in the frying pan with vegetable oil for 4 minutes
- Add in the crushed garlic
- Add the minced meat, cook, until meat is brown
- Season with salt, pepper, and thyme
- Add tomato paste, tomato sauce, and mix
- Add the broth and bring to boil on low heat
Bechamel Sauce:
- Heat the milk in a pot
- Cut the butter into a cube
- Melt the butter over low heat
- Add the flour
- Whisk continuously on low heat until the texture is pasty
- Gradually add the milk while whisking (the end texture of the sauce should thick and smooth)
- Season with salt and pepper
- Add a pinch of nutmeg (optional)
- Add grated parmesan cheese to the sauce and whisk until smooth
- Add 2 egg yolks and mix
Serving:
- In a casserole dish, layer the potato on the bottom
- Season with salt and pepper
- Add half of the eggplants on top
- Mix the 5 tablespoons of bechamel sauce to the meat
- Add the meat on top of the eggplants and spread evenly
- Layer again with the remaining eggplants
- Pour the remaining bechamel sauce on top and spread evenly
- Sprinkle grated parmesan cheese on top
- Bake this dish in a preheated oven at 360F for 50 minutes until golden brown
- Let cool and serve
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