Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pastitsio. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Classic Greek Pastitsio: Pasta Tray Bake Lasagna. Pastitsio is a favorite traditional Greek dinner recipe. It's a Greek version of lasagna- characterized How do you make Pastitsio?
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Prepare 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
- Make ready 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
- Prepare butter
- Take For the mince layer
- Prepare 750 g ground beef
- Prepare 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Take olive oil
- Take 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
- Make ready 500 ml Passata
- Prepare salt
- Prepare pepper
- Prepare ground nutmeg
- Prepare 500 ml water
- Make ready 200 ml red wine
- Get For the bechamel sauce
- Get 7-8 tbsp flour
- Make ready 250 g butter or margarine
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 can evaporated milk
- Make ready 1 can water (use the now empty milk can)
- Make ready 300 g grated cheese (this portion is taken from the 500 g grated earlier)
- Make ready salt
- Prepare pepper
- Make ready 1 level tsp ground nutmeg
Greek lasagna from my friend's Greek grandma ~ layers of cinnamon-lace beef, Kasseri cheese and creamy béchamel sauce. A baked Greek pasta with flavorful lamb (or beef) bolognese & nutmeg-infused bechamel. Pastitsio is to Greeks what lasagne are to the Italians and what mac and cheese is to Americans - intensely In Greece, pastitsio is often enjoyed in February, during the weeks that precede Lent. Pastitsio is a creamy, cheesy pasta dish that is sometimes called Greek lasagna, but it's made with large tubular pasta.
Instructions to make Pastitsio:
- Boil the pasta in salted water.
- Strain the pasta using a colander and rinse with cold water.
- Melt 2 tbsp butter in the pot and return the pasta into the pot tossing it well to coat it with the melted butter. Leave it aside to cool.
- Preparing the mince Sauté the onion and mince in the heated oil until the mince is browned.
- Add the fresh tomatoes, passata, salt, pepper, nutmeg, water, and allow to simmer for approximately 40 minutes (or until most of the liquid is reduced). Just before removing the mixture from the heat, add the wine. Let the mince mixture to cool.
- To prepare the bechamel sauce Melt the margarine in a saucepan over medium heat, and add the flour, whisking constantly till flour is lightly browned.
- While whisking constantly, pour in slowly the evaporated milk, water, eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and finally add the grated cheese. As soon as the sauce thickens, remove from heat and allow it to cool.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- In a well greased ovenproof dish, place 2/3 of the pasta to create a bottom layer. Level out and sprinkle with some of the remaining 200g grated cheese.
- Next spread the mince on top of the pasta.
- Cover the mince with the remaining pasta, and more of the grated cheese.
- Cover the whole pastitsio with the bechamel sauce, and sprinkle with the remaining cheese, which will add extra flavour as well as a golden colour to the finished dish.
- Place dish in the pre-heated over and bake for approximately 1 hour.
Pastitsio is a layered Greek pasta casserole dish, made with tubular pasta, meat sauce and topped with bechamel sauce. Cinnamon and nutmeg add a warm, spicy note to noodles covered in a creamy Parmesan bechamel. See the recipe for Greek Lasagne (Pastitsio) »Michael Kraus. Pastitsio is a Greek pasta bake made with pasta, meat sauce and bechamel sauce. Learn how to make pastitsio recipe with step-by-step tutorial and video.
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