it greek dish includes both the meat component and the side dish. It does not require any additions and is surprisingly tasty. There are many recipes for Greek moussaka with eggplant, and any option will appeal to the most demanding gourmet.

A classic recipe for Greek moussaka with eggplant

Moussaka is not a national Greek dish. It has an author, the famous Greek chef Nikos Tselemendis. He was an adherent not only of the national, but also european cuisine, therefore, the recipe he invented whimsically combines traditional Greek vegetables and lamb, and exquisite French béchamel.

The recipe is only about a hundred years old, but moussaka is enjoyed in all countries. There are many options for preparing it with various ingredients, but it all started with classical Greek moussaka.

This dish can not be called either low-calorie or dietary, but how delicious it is! When cooking, they do not spare spices and olive oil.

What is important, according to the classic recipe, moussaka in Greek is prepared only from lamb. Well, as a last resort - from beef.

Of course, you can take pork or chicken, but that will not be the same.

Ingredients:

• 4 small eggplants with a total weight of about 700 g;
• already twisted minced meat - 0.5 kg;
• 2 heads of onions;
• some ripe tomatoes total weight of about 300 g;
• cheese hard varieties - 75 g;
• dry white wine 150 ml;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons.

Moussaka is supposed to be poured with sauce. For him you need to take:

• hard cheese - 150 g;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 400 ml of milk;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
• butter - 75 g.

We will season the sauce with a pinch of grated nutmeg, and minced meat - dry herbs to your liking.

How to cook:

1. If the eggplants are bitter, they are cut into rings, without peeling, and sprinkled with salt. In 20 minutes. washed and dried.
2. Tomatoes are peeled, for which they must be pre-scalded.
3. Fry eggplant rings over high heat, adding oil. It usually takes 1 minute to make them brown.
4. The onion, cut into half rings, is sautéed in butter until it becomes transparent. Add minced meat, knead and fry for 5 minutes. Season with herbs, pour in wine and stew to evaporate all the liquid. At the end of stewing, salt to taste.
5. Add the tomatoes, cut into circles.

Musaka is an eggplant and lamb dish common in the countries of the Balkan Peninsula and the Middle East. The classic moussaka, prepared in Greece and the island of Cyprus, is hot and very hearty casserole, in which layers of meat and fried vegetablestopped with milk bechamel sauce and mouth-watering cheese crust... This dish is sometimes called vegetable lasagna, in which the pasta is replaced with eggplant, since the rest of the moussaka components almost exactly repeat the composition of the traditional one.

To taste and consistency greek moussaka also reminds of the famous Italian food, but it will be more pleasant for vegetable lovers. Soft juicy fried eggplants play a leading role in it and are in perfect harmony with hearty meat filling and velvet milk-cheese béchamel sauce. This dish simply melts in your mouth and gives you an unforgettable experience thanks to its multifaceted rich taste and delicate texture.

While cooking real moussaka - the process is quite laborious and costly, nevertheless, your efforts will certainly pay off when a ruddy, fragrant, hot casserole appears on the table, which, with its appearance and smell, will awaken the appetite and quickly gather households for a friendly family dinner or dinner. Greek Moussaka with Eggplant and Minced Meat is a Great Idea original second dishes with amazing taste and real southern flavor!

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 medium eggplants (800 - 900 g)
• 80 g parmesan
• 450 g minced lamb or beef
• 400 g tomatoes
• 1 large onion
• 2 - 3 cloves of garlic
• 200 ml vegetable oil
• salt, pepper mix, thyme

Bechamel sauce:

• 500 ml milk
• 50 g butter
• 2.5 Art. l. with a heap of flour
• 1 bay leaf
• salt, pepper, nutmeg

COOKING METHOD:

1. To prepare Greek moussaka, cut the eggplants into 7 - 8 mm thick rings, put in a bowl and sprinkle with salt. Leave the eggplant for 30 minutes, then rinse cold water and pat dry on paper towels.

This procedure is necessary to remove the bitter taste from the eggplant.

2. In a large skillet, heat 3-4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil and put the eggplant circles in one layer. Fry over medium heat for 3 - 5 minutes until golden brown.


3. Turn the eggplants over and brown the other side, then place them on paper towelto remove excess fat. Fry the remaining eggplants in the same pan, adding vegetable oil as needed.

When frying, eggplants absorb a lot of oil, so you have to add it quite often, otherwise they will not brown. It took me about 180 ml of vegetable oil to fry all the eggplants. Fortunately, not all of it will end up in the finished dish.

4. While the eggplants are fried, let's prepare meat filling for moussaka. To do this, peel the onions and cut into thin half rings, chop the garlic as small as possible.


5. Cut the tomatoes crosswise around the stalk, put them in a deep bowl, put them in the sink and pour boiling water over them. After 2 - 3 minutes, place the bowl under the stream cold water and when the tomatoes have cooled, peel them, starting from the stalk area.


6. Cut the peeled tomatoes into small cubes.

Advice! In the winter season instead of fresh tomatoes better use canned tomatoes in own juice.

7. In a frying pan, heat 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil (preferably olive) and fry the onion and garlic over medium heat for 8 - 10 minutes until golden brown.


8. Add chopped meat and cook for 5 - 7 minutes, stirring occasionally and breaking the lumps with a spatula, until all the minced meat loses its bright red color.

Traditionally, Greek moussaka is made from minced lamb, but it is quite possible to replace it with the more familiar minced beef or veal.

9. Add salt, spices and chopped tomatoes to the minced meat and cook over medium heat for 10 to 15 minutes, until most of the liquid has evaporated.


10. While the minced meat is being stewed, let's start making bechamel sauce for moussaka. To do this, grate the Parmesan cheese on a fine grater.

11. In a small saucepan, melt butter, add flour and fry it for 2 - 3 minutes over low heat with constant stirring with a whisk. Heat milk together with bay leaves in a separate saucepan until almost boiling.


12. Pour hot milk into flour and immediately mix thoroughly with a whisk. Bring the béchamel sauce to a boil, add salt, pepper and a pinch of nutmeg and cook for 3-5 minutes over low heat until thick. Add half of the grated Parmesan to the sauce and mix well with a whisk.


13. Now you can start assembling the Greek moussaka. Put the rings in a thick layer on the bottom of the baking dish fried eggplant and lightly salt. I had a square glass form 20 x 20 cm.


14. Put half the meat filling on the eggplant and spread over the entire surface.


15. Top with about a third of the béchamel sauce.


16. Then put another layer of eggplant and the rest of the minced meat.


17. Put the eggplants in the last layer, cover them with béchamel sauce and sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan.


18. Bake the moussaka in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 40 minutes until a delicious brown cheese crust.


The finished dish should be cooled in a mold for 10 - 15 minutes so that it does not fall apart when slicing, after which it can be served along with fresh vegetables and greens. Hearty, aromatic and unusually tasty Greek moussaka is ready!

How to make Greek diet moussaka

Greek moussaka is a rather high-calorie dish and is heavy for digestion due to the large amount of fat. However, it can be made much lighter and more dietary by considering the following guidelines:

1. Bake eggplants in the oven or fry in a grill pan, greasing them beforehand minimum amount olive oil.

2. Prepare minced meat yourself from lean lamb or veal.

3. Reduce the amount of béchamel sauce by 2 times and use it only for the top layer of moussaka.

4. Take a small amount of cheese just to sprinkle on top.

Anyone who has ever visited Greece is unlikely to forget greek cuisine, simple, healthy and amazingly tasty and aromatic. Moussaka is rightfully considered one of the main traditional Greek dishes. We offer you to cook it too.

To prepare this wonderful Greek dish, we need the following products:

• Eggplant - 800 g
• Minced lamb or beef - 750 g
• Onion - 1 onion
• Tomatoes - 300 g
• White wine - 180 ml
• Gouda type cheese - 50 g
• Salt, pepper - to taste

Moussaka is prepared with a sauce for which we need:

• Butter - 30 g
• Flour - 30 g
• Milk - 400 ml
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• Hard cheese like gouda - 200 g
• Salt, nutmeg - to taste

How moussaka is prepared

We start by preparing vegetables. My tomatoes and eggplants. Chop the onion in half rings, peel the tomatoes and cut into small cubes. Cut off the stalks from the eggplant, cut into thin slices.

Next, we process the eggplant. Sprinkle the slices with salt, put them in a bowl, leave them in this form for 30 minutes. After that, the eggplants need to be rinsed with cold water and squeezed. And then lightly fry the slices in olive oil (just lightly, they cannot be overcooked). You can use a grill for this. You can also bake the eggplants in the oven, placing them in one layer on a baking sheet. If we fry in oil, then after that you need to put the pieces on paper napkinto absorb excess oil.

Also fry the onion in olive oil until it becomes soft. Then we take it out of the pan into separate dishes, trying to keep as little oil as possible on it.

Put the minced meat in the same pan, fry over high heat. Then add white wine, mix minced meat with it. Add tomatoes, onions, salt and pepper. Simmer everything over medium heat under a lid until the liquid evaporates. If necessary, you can add water to the pan until the meat is done.

Sauce is perhaps the main ingredient in moussaka. While the meat is stewing, let's cook it. We grate 200 g of cheese. Put the butter in a small saucepan or stewpan and melt over low heat. Then pour flour into the melted butter and fry it in oil for 30-40 seconds, stirring constantly. Remove the saucepan from the stove and leave the mixture to cool slightly.

Heat milk in another container. Put the mixture of flour and butter on the stove on low heat again and pour in the milk in small portions with constant stirring. Bring the sauce to a boil and leave to simmer for 3-5 minutes. Add half of the grated cheese, stir without removing from the heat until the cheese is melted. Put nutmeg in the sauce, salt to taste, mix everything. Now we remove from the stove and cool it down a little.

Beat the eggs, pour half into the sauce, beat everything together. Add the second half of the beaten eggs, beat everything again. The sauce is ready.

Now we proceed to the final preparation of the moussaka. Place half of the fried eggplant slices in a baking dish. On them - a layer of minced meat, on top - again a layer of eggplant. Fill with the sauce, sprinkle with the remaining grated cheese. We place in a preheated oven and bake until a golden crust forms on top.

Enjoy your meal!

Moussaka with potatoes and bell pepper

Let's prepare another version of moussaka, this time add to the recipe bell pepper.

We need products:

• Potatoes - 6 pcs. medium size
• Eggplant - 2 pcs. large size
• Ground beef - 300 g
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• Onion - 1 onion
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
• Tomato paste - 2 tbsp spoons
• Hard cheese - 200 g
• Dried oregano (optional) - 1 tsp
• Dried or fresh mint (optional) - 1 hour spoon or small twig
• Greens to taste
• Olive oil - 100 ml
• Salt, black ground pepper - taste

For the sauce:

Flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
Butter - 50 g
Milk - 2 cups
Eggs - 2 pcs.

We prepare moussaka as follows.

We peel the potatoes, cut them into thin slices, fry in olive oil, be sure to salt. Then put it on the bottom of a deep mold or frying pan.
We also fry the onions cut into rings. Finely chop the bell pepper and put in the fry together with the onion, fry for a few minutes. Add minced meat and diced tomatoes. We fry all this for 5 minutes. Add mint and oregano if desired. Season with salt and pepper. Then add tomato paste and simmer for another 20 minutes, covered over low heat. Add finely chopped greens 1-2 minutes before the end of stewing.

The minced meat for the moussaka is ready. Put it on top of the potato slices.

Now we are preparing the eggplant. We cut them into rings about 5 mm thick. Salt and put in a bowl for 15 minutes to make the glass bitter. Then lightly rinse and squeeze excess water... After that, fry the eggplant on both sides for not a large number olive oil, before baking, they should be soft, almost cooked.

Put the eggplant on top of the minced meat.

Cooking bechamel sauce for moussaka. Lightly fry the flour in butter (do not fry until dark). Add milk in parts, stirring constantly. So we cook until thick.

After that, remove from heat, refrigerate for several minutes and break eggs into sauce. Salt and mix well.

Pour the moussaka prepared for baking with the sauce. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top.

We put in the oven and bake for 1 hour at 180 degrees.

A hearty, multi-layered dish baked in the oven - Greek style eggplant masaka! Cook at home!

In Greece, moussaka is served in inexpensive cafes, and in luxury restaurants. But to try this delicious casserole it is not at all necessary to go somewhere, the proposed recipe with a photo is as close as possible to classic Greek and can be easily used at home. For cooking, you will need eggplants, some potatoes, minced lamb and traditional dressing - Bechamel sauce. And of course, almost no Greek dish is complete without cheese and olive oil. Vegetables for casseroles can be pre-fried or baked in the oven - do as you like. In the first version, olive oil is used to grease the pan, in the second - vegetables.

• 3 eggplants (600-700 g);
• 4 large potato tubers (600-700 g);
• 3 small tomatoes (300 g);
• 1 small onion (300 g);
• 500 g minced lamb or pork and beef;
• 200 g mozzarella;
• 100 ml. dry red wine;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• salt, pepper to taste;
• cinnamon stick;
• a few mint leaves;
• extra virgin olive oil.

For Bechamel sauce:

• 1 l. milk;
• 100 g butter;
• 3 tbsp flour;
• a pinch of nutmeg;
• 0.5 tsp provencal herbs.

Cut the washed eggplants into slices about half a centimeter thick.

Salt and leave for 20-30 minutes so that the pieces let the juice out, with which all the bitterness will come out of the eggplant.

Cut the potatoes into slices about the same thickness as the eggplant.

Put the potatoes on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, sprinkle lightly olive oil and bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees. It should soften and brown a little on top.

We make cuts in the skin of the tomatoes to make it easier to remove it.

Pour boiling water over the tomatoes and leave for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, finely chop the onion.

Put the onion in a skillet with heated olive oil and sauté until half cooked.

We spread the minced meat to the onion and break it with a spatula, then mix with the onion.

You can already remove the skin from the tomatoes. Cut the fruits into small cubes.

Minced meat grabbed, meat juice began to stand out.

It's time to add the tomatoes to the minced meat.

Pour in red wine.

Add spices: mint and cinnamon stick.

Add water and simmer over low heat.

We wash the eggplants and squeeze the juice, dry them with paper towels.

We also bake the eggplants until soft (about 20 minutes), brushing with a little olive oil on top.

Not a single moussaka is complete without Bechamel sauce. Interestingly, the origin of the fill is not Greek, but French! The preparation of the sauce is described in detail. So, melt half of the butter over low heat, add flour and mix immediately. Now pour in small portions warm milkstirring continuously. Salt and pepper, mix and cook after boiling for another 2-3 minutes. Now turn off the heat, put in the remaining oil and cover the pan with a lid until it is completely dissolved. Bechamel is ready. In the process of hardening, it will thicken a little.

Half of the liquid in the pan evaporated, leaving the minced meat in the sauce. You can get a cinnamon stick (it has already worked its way), add the squeezed garlic, stir and remove the pan from the stove.

Rub the mozzarella on a fine grater.

We start collecting moussaka with potatoes and eggplants. Grease the bottom of the form with béchamel sauce.

We spread a layer of eggplant in the form, place the circles tightly to each other.

Put the minced meat on top.

Sprinkle with a little cheese.

We spread the potatoes and cover with the sauce.

The next layer is minced meat again.

Sprinkle with cheese again.

We spread the remaining eggplants.

Pour in all the remaining sauce and mozzarella. We put the eggplant moussaka in a preheated oven and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

The musaka is baked, the cheese is beautifully browned. You can garnish a Greek casserole with a sprig of mint and serve. Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 2: eggplant moussaka (step by step photos)

Moussaka (casserole) - a traditional dish from eggplant in the Balkans and the Middle East. IN different countries have their own original recipes... Classic Greek moussaka extraordinary tasty dish, resembles Italian lasagna with two types of sauces, but instead of layers of dough, thinly sliced \u200b\u200band fried eggplants are put in it - this is a rather difficult dish to prepare and takes a lot of time. My recipe is a little simpler, but also delicious.

• minced meat 400-500 gr
• onions 1-2 pcs
• eggplant 5 pieces (medium)
• tomatoes 5 pcs
• eggs 6 pcs
• sour cream 2-3 tbsp
• cheese 250 gr
• dry provencal herbs
• ground black pepper
• vegetable oil for frying

You will also need a baking dish approximately 38x25 cm with a side height of at least 5 cm.

Tip: you can fry the minced meat and eggplant in advance, for example, in the evening, and bake the moussaka the next day.

Chop the onion and fry it in oil until soft for 5-10 minutes.

Add minced meat to the onion. Fry the minced meat for 10-15 minutes. Stir to break the meatballs. Season with salt and pepper. You can add 0.5 cups of dry wine and wait for it to evaporate.

Cut the stem off the eggplant and peel it. Cut into slices 1-1.5 cm thick.

Take a clean frying pan ( or wash the pan after frying the minced meat). Fry the eggplant on vegetable oil on both sides.

Eggplants absorb a lot of oil when frying, so be prepared to add oil all the time. You can reduce the amount of absorbed oil if you roll the eggplants in flour before frying,

but it is better to put the fried eggplants in a colander and press lightly so that excess oil comes out.

Grate the cheese.

Prepare the tomatoes - peel them off and cut them into wedges. To do this, cut the tomato on top, put it in a bowl and pour boiling water over for half a minute. Drain the boiling water, pour it over with cold water - now the skin can be easily removed. If the tomato is hard and unripe, keep it in the boiling water for longer.

Tomatoes are best cut into round slices. Like this.

Place the fried eggplants in a baking dish, salt and pepper, add dry herbs.

Sprinkle the eggplant with cheese.

Now the minced meat is fried.

Sprinkle with cheese.

The last layer is tomatoes, salt, pepper, herbs.

Tip: if you have a deep shape, then you can make another layer of fried eggplants - buy more eggplants or choose larger fruits.

Sprinkle with cheese.

Beat eggs with sour cream, salt a little.

You can do this with a blender.

Pour the whipped mixture over the mold.

Bake the moussaka in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for 35-40 minutes.

Moussaka is ready and smells delicious.

Juicy, tender, with melted cheese inside - it just melts in your mouth! You will definitely be asked for supplements!

Recipe 3: moussaka with eggplant and potatoes

Today I want to offer you just incredible delicious recipe classic moussaka with potatoes and eggplants. This dish is very satisfying and tastes perfect, you can eat several servings of moussaka at a time if you don't stop in time. Musaka can be easily presented to guests, believe me, they will definitely appreciate and will be grateful to you for such a dish. In addition to potatoes and eggplants, the dish contains Bechamel sauce, minced meat and onions are also fried separately, with the addition of tomato sauce or pasta, the collected moussaka is mashed with cheese and cooked in the oven. The process is not very complicated, not too fast, but the result is worth the expectation. You can serve moussaka with herbs and fresh vegetables or pickles.

• potatoes - 4-5 pcs.,
• eggplant - 1 pc.,
• onion - 1 pc.,
• minced meat - 400 g,
• tomato paste - 1 tablespoon,
• vegetable oil - 80 ml,
• milk - 400 ml,
• butter - 70 g,
• wheat flour - 1 tablespoon,
• nutmeg, black pepper, paprika - to taste,
• hard cheese - 100 g,
• garlic - 2 cloves.

Prepare everything necessary ingredients... Take a frying pan, pour in some oil and heat. Peel the onions, rinse and dice the onions, transfer the onions to the pan. Add minced meat to the onion.

Fry the minced meat and onions for 10 minutes, crushing the minced meat with a spatula in the process. Add tomato paste, a couple of finely diced garlic cloves, add a little water, salt, pepper, paprika. Simmer all ingredients until tomato sauce has evaporated.

Next, prepare bechamel - melt butter in a saucepan, add a spoon wheat flour, stir well. After pouring in milk in a thin stream and stirring constantly with a whisk, the heat on the stove should be moderate.

Boil the bechamel until thickened, add a pinch of nutmeg and ground pepper.

Cut the eggplants and fry in vegetable oil.

Prepare a mold for the oven, pour a little béchamel into the mold. Cut the peeled potatoes into slices. Put a third of the potatoes on the sauce. Salt.

Spread the minced meat on top of the potatoes.

Spread half the eggplant on top of the minced meat.

Pour the sauce over the eggplant. Repeat all layers again - potatoes, minced meat, eggplant.

Make potatoes with the final layer. Grate the cheese on a fine or medium grater, grind the prepared dish with cheese.

Pour the remaining sauce over the moussaka.

Seal the form and send to the oven. At 180 degrees, cook the moussaka for 45 minutes, then print the form and brown it for another 15 minutes. You can immediately serve the dish to the table.

Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 4, step by step: moussaka with minced meat and eggplant

Moussaka with eggplant and minced meat may seem familiar and familiar to you, even though unusual name... However, don't jump to conclusions. Of course, what could be new in baking vegetables with meat in the oven. But the secret is that all the ingredients of the dish are prepared simultaneously and in their own juice. Not a single vegetable or even meat is prepared in advance. Thanks to this, all products retain their beneficial features and natural taste. You can also make an all-vegetarian casserole. This dish is suitable for a dietary menu.

If this is your first time meeting such a dish, then we will tell you how to cook moussaka with eggplant in the classic Greek way. A step-by-step recipe with a photo will clearly demonstrate each of the stages of cooking it at home.

The name of the dish is translated as “chilled”. Therefore, very often moussaka is served not as a main course, but as a salad. Secret rich taste the dish is covered in a specially prepared sauce, the details of which you will learn in the recipe.

Let's start cooking.

• tomato - 3-4 pieces
• eggplant - 1-2 pieces
• potatoes - 6 pieces
• minced meat - 1 kg
• onions - 2 pieces
• garlic - 2 cloves
• milk - 250 ml
• sour cream - 150 ml
• wheat flour - 2 tbsp.
• butter - 150 gr
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
• bay leaf - 1-2 pcs
• fresh herbs to taste
• ground black pepper - to taste

Prepare all the ingredients you need and make sure you don't forget anything.

The first step is to wash and peel the vegetables, if necessary. To remove the bitterness from the eggplant, cut them into rings and sprinkle with salt. Leave in this form for 20 minutes. After the required time has passed, rinse the salt under running water and dry the eggplant with a paper towel. Next we take suitable shape and grease it with oil. Eggplant will be the first layer. Peel the onion and cut into rings, it will be the second layer. Cut the potatoes into rings and lay them on top of the onions. The final layer will be tomatoes. Salt and pepper each layer to taste.

Put a dense layer of minced meat on top of the tomatoes. If you purchased not ready-made minced meat, but fresh meat, then pass it through a meat grinder along with onions and garlic, season with salt and pepper and only then put in a dense layer over the tomatoes.

Put all the vegetable layers, except the tomatoes, again in the same order. Sprinkle the potatoes generously with spices, herbs and herbs to taste.

Let's make the sauce. To do this, heat the pan with butter and add flour to it. Cook the mixture for about 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add milk to the pan and bring to a boil. Add sour cream, salt and pepper. Mix everything thoroughly and heat it up, not bringing it to a boil anymore.

When the sauce is cooked, pour it over the vegetable and meat dish.

We heat the oven to 175 degrees. We send the prepared form to the oven and cook it within 1 hour.

Cool the finished dish and serve. Eggplant moussaka with minced meat is ready.

Recipe 5: Greek Eggplant Moussaka (step by step)

There are a lot of recipes for making moussaka; in each country of this region it is prepared in its own way. But most importantly, when preparing moussaka, great amount spices and herbs, the composition of which is also different in each country. So, if you like to experiment, if you are ready to try different directions in national dishes, our photos step by step cooking moussak is just for you. Cook with us tasty and appetizing, please your culinary delights their loved ones.

for the base:

• Beef or lamb meat - 500 grams
• Eggplant - 400 grams
• Potatoes - 300 grams
• Tomatoes - 100 grams
• Onions - 100 grams
• Garlic - 2-3 cloves
• Dry red wine - 150 grams
• Egg - 1 piece
• Sunflower oil - 100 grams
• Salt - 20 grams
• Allspice black pepper - 15 grams
• Ground coriander - 10 grams
• Ground thyme - 10 grams
• Ground oregano - 10 grams

for béchamel sauce:

• Butter - 100 grams
• Cheese - 100 grams
• Milk - 250 grams
• Flour top grade - 70 grams
• Chicken egg - 1 piece
• Salt - 10 grams
• Allspice black pepper - 10 grams

Rinse the meat under running water, cut into large pieces.

Scroll the chopped meat into minced meat. For moussaka, it is advisable to use minced meat own production, with it, the dish will turn out to be tender and tasty.

Wash the eggplants, cut them into thin long slices, sprinkle them with plenty of salt. Put it in a bowl so that the eggplant will release its juice.

Pour sunflower oil into a preheated pan, put the minced meat for frying.

Free the onion from the skin, chop finely and thinly.

Put the onion in a frying pan to the minced meat, mix everything.

Wash the potatoes and thinly remove the skin.

Cut the peeled potatoes into slices.

At this point, the eggplants will "give" juice, turn over the slices, check if the juice is going well.

Pour the tomatoes with boiling water, as soon as the skin cracks, remove it, cut it into cubes.

Peel the garlic, finely chop.

Add chopped tomatoes and garlic to the minced meat pan. Salt and pepper the contents of the pan, mix the minced meat well so that the salt and pepper are evenly distributed.

Pour dry red wine into the minced meat, reduce the gas, cover the pan tightly with a lid, simmer for about 15 minutes.

Squeeze the juice from the eggplants.

Lubricate the baking sheet well with sunflower oil, put the eggplants on it, put it in a preheated oven to dry.

All the ingredients for the moussaka are ready, now let's prepare the béchamel sauce. To do this, put butter in a saucepan, put it on the burner, melt the butter.

The butter should not just melt, but boil.

Pour flour into the boiled butter.

Beat the mass thoroughly with a whisk to avoid the slightest lumps.

When the flour mass has cooled slightly, pour milk and black pepper into a saucepan, beat the mass again and boil for another 1-2 minutes.

Break the egg into a slightly cooled mass, beat the mass well.

The moussaka sauce is ready. Let's start decorating the dish.

On coarse grater rub the cheese.

Break the egg into the prepared minced meat and mix well, evenly distributing it over the entire amount of minced meat.

Grease the bottom of the baking dish generously with sunflower oil. Put the sliced \u200b\u200bpotatoes in an overlapping form.

Cover a layer of potatoes with a layer of baked eggplant.

Then spread the minced meat and another layer of eggplant on top of the eggplant layer.

Sprinkle the eggplants with grated cheese and spread a layer of béchamel sauce on top. We put to bake in an oven preheated to a temperature of 100 degrees.

After 40 minutes, the Greek moussaka will brown, which means it is ready.

We serve the moussaka directly in a baking dish, cut into portions while hot. It is also customary to serve delicious crispy homebaked bread and wine.

Recipe 6: classic eggplant moussaka

Today our menu includes a hearty multi-layered dish - Greek moussaka with eggplant, meat and potatoes. All components after preliminary preparation fit into a mold and languish in the oven under a dense mixture of Bechamel sauce and cheese, which serves as a kind of lid. Thanks to this sealing, the products beneficially reveal and combine their aromas and tastes, and the final dish turns out to be rich, soft and insanely appetizing!

Musaka does not cook very quickly, but after tasting all the efforts spent will be fully justified! We choose juicy for the recipe, by no means lean mince, fleshy tomatoes and high-quality low-melting cheese. If you do not neglect the recommendations, the dish will come out delicious and truly flawless!

• eggplant - 1 kg;
• minced meat - 800 g;
• white dry wine - 180 ml;
• ground cinnamon - 1⁄2 tsp;
• potatoes - 500 g;
• fresh tomatoes - 300 g;
• cheese - 50-70 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• vegetable oil (for frying).

For the sauce:

• milk - 800 ml;
• butter - 70 g;
• flour - 50 g;
• cheese - 200 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• nutmeg - pinch;
• salt to taste.

After removing the husk, chop the onion finely. We choose a large, deep frying pan, fry the sliced refined oil to a light golden hue.

Load the minced meat to the toasted onion. We are waiting for the red-pink meat mass to turn completely beige. Mix the minced meat periodically, breaking large pieces with a spatula.

At the same time, we are engaged in tomatoes - we make a cross-shaped incision on the peel, and then we lower the fruits into a container with boiling water. After a couple of minutes, rinse the tomatoes with cold water, separate the steamed skin.

Pour dry wine into the clarified minced meat.

Finely chop the peeled tomatoes or grind in a blender bowl, add to the meat mass.

Salt / pepper, add cinnamon, mix the contents of the pan thoroughly. Without covering with a lid, keep the mixture over low heat - completely evaporate the moisture. On this, the meat component of the dish is ready!

Peel the potatoes, fill them with water. Bring to a boil and cook for about 10 minutes (until half cooked). After draining the liquid, cool the boiled tubers.

Melt the butter in a skillet or skillet with sides over low heat. Add flour, fry with stirring for 30-40 seconds.

Pour warm milk in small portions, stirring very thoroughly after each added portion. Continuing to stir continuously and intensively, bring the Béchamel to a boil over low heat.

Add nutmeg and finely grated cheese (200 g).

Stir, waiting for the cheese chips to melt completely, salt to taste.

Transfer to a convenient working bowl and cool the cheese and milk mixture until warm. We introduce the eggs one at a time, after each carefully stir the mass with a whisk.

It remains to prepare the last ingredient for a Greek multi-layered dish. Cut the eggplants into longitudinal plates about 3 mm thick. If there is a suspicion that the fruits are bitter, sprinkle the slices with salt and let them stand, after which we rinse the plates with water and dry them.

Lubricate the strips of eggplant with vegetable oil on both sides. Fry in a dry frying pan until lightly charred. On average, one side takes 3-4 minutes. Put the finished plates on a paper towel so that excess fat is absorbed.

Let's move on to "assembling" the dish. Cut the boiled potatoes until half cooked into slices 2-3 mm thick. Spread over the bottom of the heat-resistant form, lightly sprinkle with salt. We choose the capacity with high sides, about 23 × 30 cm in size (not less).

Next, distribute the minced meat evenly.

Hide meat layer under the remains of eggplant.

The final step is to distribute the sauce.

Moussaka in Greek is baked for about 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees. 10-15 minutes before the end of the process, sprinkle the layer of sauce with the rest of the cheese, rubbing with fine shavings.

Serve the dish hot, slicing it in portions.

Greek Moussaka with Eggplant is ready! Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 7: moussaka with potatoes, eggplant and minced meat

Catch the idea for a hearty and delicious dinner - Greek moussaka with eggplant and potatoes. This dish combines everything we love: baked vegetables, juicy minced meat, delicate sauce and delicious melted cheese. This is beautiful homemade dish for the whole family! What could be better?

• Mixed minced meat 1 kg
• Bulb onions 3 pieces
• Garlic 3 cloves
• Tomatoes 400 grams or 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• Vegetable oil 3 tablespoons
• White wine 150 milliliters
• Salt 1 teaspoon
• Sugar 1 teaspoon
• Ground pepper ½ teaspoon
• Thyme ½ teaspoon
• Oregano ½ teaspoon
• Sweet paprika ½ teaspoon
• Dried parsley ½ teaspoon
• Dried dill ½ teaspoon

• Eggplant 2 pieces (large)
• Potatoes 2 pieces (large)
• Grated cheese 3 tablespoons
• Vegetable oil 100 milliliters
• Salt 1 teaspoon

Bechamel sauce

• Butter 70 grams
• Wheat flour 2 tablespoons
• Yogurt or milk 250 ml
• Grated cheese 3 tablespoons
• Eggs 2 pieces
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste

Rinse the eggplants, cut into slices about 1 centimeters, put them in a colander, sprinkle with salt and leave to drain to remove the bitter juice. Leave for 15-20 minutes, and then be sure to rinse and dry well.

Melt the butter in a skillet, stirring constantly.

Add flour and continue stirring, frying for 1 minute, until mixture turns golden brown.

Pour in natural yogurt or milk and mix everything, without removing from heat, until the sauce is smooth. Then add the grated cheese and stir again very well, heating until the sauce is smooth again. Remove from heat after a minute and cool.

Add eggs to the cooled sauce and mix very well.

You should get a homogeneous mass without lumps, but with pieces grated cheese, which has already melted decently.

Heat oil in a skillet and fry finely diced onion with a pinch of salt until transparent.

Add the minced meat, preferably mixed, and continue cooking.

When the minced meat starts to change color, add spices and the remaining salt to it.

Pour in wine and tomato paste, or peeled and finely chopped fresh tomatoes.

Simmer everything over medium heat for 30 minutes or until you have a thick meat sauce... By the way, with fresh tomatoes it turns out tastier and more aromatic than with tomato paste.

Peel the potatoes, cut into thin slices and fry in a large amount of vegetable oil until golden brown. Fry in portions to create crispy crisps on the outside. After frying, wipe off excess oil with paper towels.

Fry eggplants in the same way as potatoes, in batches and in enough oils. Please note that these vegetables are very greedy for oil.
Be sure to dry the eggplant slices after frying.

When all the ingredients and sauces are prepared, all that remains is to put it together and bake. Pick a tall form and place the fried eggplant on the bottom, using half the vegetables.

Lay out the meat layer on top of the eggplants, using half of the minced meat.

Place potatoes on top of the meat.

After that, there is a layer of minced meat again.

And put the remaining eggplants on the meat.

Pour the béchamel sauce on top and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 60 minutes. Then take out the moussaka dish and leave the casserole to cool down. room temperature for 30 minutes. When the moussaka has cooled, it is easy to cut so that it can be divided into portions.

Greek moussaka with eggplant and potatoes is served as a main course. You can supplement it with salad, pickled cucumbers or sour cream, natural yoghurt... It's delicious and hearty dish for every day, relevant both in summer and winter. Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 8: moussaka with eggplant and potatoes (with photo)

Moussaka with a delicious crust.

• Minced meat - 500 g
• Eggplant - 600 g
• Potatoes - 500 g
• Tomatoes - 400 g
• Onions - 2 heads
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Dried thyme - 1 tsp
• Milk - 1 glass
• Egg - 3 pcs.
• Cheese - 100 g
• Vegetable oil - 6 tbsp. spoons
• Salt, ground black pepper - to taste

Wash the potatoes, peel, cut into circles and cook for 5 minutes in salted water. Throw in a colander and drain.

Wash the eggplants, cut them lengthwise and fry in vegetable oil on both sides.

Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, peel and cut into thin circles.

Peel the onions and garlic. Chop the onion and lightly brown in vegetable oil.

Add minced meat and simmer over medium heat for 20-25 minutes.

Add minced garlic, season with salt, pepper and thyme. Add tomatoes and simmer for 10 minutes.

Whisk milk and eggs, season with salt and pepper. Add cheese shavings and stir.

Put the minced meat, eggplant and potatoes in layers in a greased baking dish, season with salt and pepper. Pour moussaka with the mixture and place in the oven.

Bake 15 minutes until golden brown.

Enjoy your meal.

Recipe 9: Greek Eggplant Moussaka

• Minced meat - 250-300 g
• Potatoes (medium) - 2 pieces
• Eggplant (medium) - 2 pieces
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece
• Bulb onion - 1 piece
• Tomato - 1 piece
• Tomato paste - 1 tbsp l.
• Dutch cheese (or any other hard cheese) - 100-150 g
• Black pepper
• Vegetable oil
• Garlic - 1 tooth

Cut the eggplants into slices, salt, leave for 15 minutes. Then rinse and dry. Fry in vegetable oil on 2 sides.

Cut the potatoes into slices too, fry on 2 sides.

Finely chop the onion and garlic, fry.

Add minced meat. Grate the tomato, add to the onion and minced meat, mix well.

Add tomato paste, pepper and salt. mix. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Cut the pepper into cubes, lightly fry.

Arrange in layers: potatoes - eggplant - pepper - minced meat sauce and tomato.

Sprinkle with grated cheese.

Bake for 30-40 minutes. in the oven at 180 degrees.

Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 10: homemade eggplant moussaka

Moussaka is a dish eastern peoples... In Moldova, Bulgaria, Greece - each of these countries has its own options for its preparation. Today we have a Greek moussaka with eggplant. Classic recipe This dish consists of layers of eggplant, minced meat and tomatoes, seasoned with white sauce and baked in the oven. The classic moussaka recipe with the photo, which you will see below, also contains potatoes, which is also a valid version of this dish.

But as white sauce we took kefir cheese sauce instead of the more common Bechamel sauce. This addition allowed this dish to become lighter, because we did not use flour or butter, as in the Bechamel sauce. Tastes in ready dish the difference is not felt at all.

• Eggplant - 1.5 kg.
• Boiled potatoes - 1 kg.
• Tomatoes - 800 g.
• Cheese - 200 g.
• Minced meat - 400-500 g.
• Onions - 1 pc. large
• Garlic - 4-5 cloves
• Kefir - 250 ml.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Salt, pepper - to taste
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

First, let's prepare the necessary ingredients. Minced meat for moussaka is usually used from lamb, but if you do not have this product, you can replace it with beef or minced pork... Potatoes must be boiled not necessarily before full readiness, otherwise it will disintegrate, and in the finished dish it can turn into mashed potatoes, but we need crispy slices.

Cut the eggplants into slices or lengthwise, into thin slices. Salt cool, wrinkle lightly with your hands and leave for 20 minutes.

While excess bitterness comes out of the eggplant, chop the garlic finely.

Chop the onion finely.

Spread onion and garlic in a little vegetable oil.

Add minced meat and fry it with onion and garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Minced meat set aside for now.

Rinse the eggplants with cold water. The water will be dark - these are substances that cause bitterness. Put the eggplants on kitchen towel and dry - otherwise they will "shoot" when frying.

Fry the eggplants on both sides in vegetable oil.

A little trick: if you haven't dried the eggplants enough and they still shoot a lot, try putting them first in a dry preheated pan and add oil after a minute. During this time, the water will evaporate and will not produce such an effect.

Prepare the sauce. The classic Greek moussaka, the recipe with the photo is shown step by step here, often contains the Béchamel sauce, but we will replace it without “loss” in taste and health. "Bechamel" - thick sauce, and we will also make his kefir "substitute" thick.

To do this, divide the eggs into yolks and whites.

Beat the yolks with kefir, pepper, salt a little.

Whisk the whites into strong foam with a pinch of salt. Beat the whites well washed from the yolks and dry beaters of the mixer, this is the only way they beat well.

Grate cheese on a fine grater.

Mix cheese and yolk-kefir mass, gently add whipped whites.

Cut the potatoes into slices.

Cut the tomatoes into slices as well.

Now that we have all the groceries ready, it's time to collect our moussaka. On a baking sheet (best with non-stick coating or covered with foil), oiled, lay out the potatoes.

Put half of the fried eggplant on the potatoes.

Brush the eggplant with half the sauce.

Put the minced meat on the sauce.

An appetizing aroma is already spreading around the house - a moussaka with minced meat and eggplant is ready, the recipe with a photo of which we have shown you. It is better to serve it hot. Enjoy your meal!

When it comes to sauces, bechamel is one of the first to come to mind. All the charm of this traditional French dressing in its sophisticated and delicate taste at the same time. The sauce goes well with almost any product - different varieties meat and fish, mushrooms, vegetables and seafood.

Classic béchamel sauce - step by step recipe

Bechamel cream sauce is quite simple in terms of preparation, but it requires knowledge of some culinary subtleties and adherence to certain technological processes... Following traditional recipe, you can make bechamel for lasagna, spaghetti, cannelloni and other dishes. Do not be afraid of culinary experiments - this magic sauce will help to present the tastes of familiar and familiar products in a new way.

Required Ingredients:

• milk 3.2% fat - 500 ml
• wheat flour - 40 gr.
• butter - 40 gr.
• onion - 1 pc.
• bay leaf - 1 pc.
• salt, pepper and grated nutmeg

Step-by-step instruction

Moussaka with béchamel sauce - a step by step recipe

Greek moussaka is a kind of variation on the theme italian lasagna... Vegetables, rich bolognese and airy bechamel magically add up to a single magnificent ensemble. The dish turns out to be tasty, satisfying, aromatic. In one word - Greek! Of course, preparing such a flaky casserole takes time, but it turns out to be simply divine! Keep in mind that the moussaka should cool slightly before serving. In a company with aromas soaring in the kitchen (including from nutmeg) it will not be easy to wait for this moment, however, cutting a hot dish into beautiful portioned pieces is unlikely to work.

Required Ingredients:

• eggplant - 3 pcs.
• potatoes - 2 pcs.
• white onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 1 clove
• ground beef - 700 gr.
• tomatoes - 7-8 pcs.
• tomato paste - 120 gr.
• butter - 60 gr.
• flour - 60 gr.
• milk - 450-500 ml
• hard cheese - 300 gr.
• olive oil - 5 tablespoons
• nutmeg
• oregano
• basil
• salt pepper

Step-by-step instruction

On the Internet, the most famous bloggers and sites about making bechamel sauce are Afisha-Food, Anastasia Skripkina, Wikipedia, etc. We invite you to watch a video on how to cook this wonderful sauce at home: