How to Prepare Moussaka for the lazy

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, moussaka for the lazy. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Moussaka for the lazy is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Moussaka for the lazy is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Vegan moussaka is just as tasty as the traditional one, but much healthier. NOTE: check out my new, improved recipe for vegan moussaka here. My initial thought was to simply swap butter for some local olive oil and dairy milk for homemade almond milk and it did yield a very tasty result.

Recipe of Moussaka for the lazy

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have moussaka for the lazy using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Moussaka for the lazy:

1. Make ready 5 potatoes
2. Make ready 4 eggplants
3. Get 500 g beef mince
4. Prepare 1 large onion, finely chopped
5. Make ready 1/2 cup white wine
6. Make ready 1 can chopped tomatoes
7. Take 300 g feta cheese
8. Make ready Salt
9. Get Pepper
10. Get Olive oil
11. Make ready For the bechamel
12. Make ready 3 generous tbsp butter or margarine
13. Make ready 8 tbsp flour
14. Take 4 cups and 2 tbsp milk
15. Make ready 2 egg yolks
16. Prepare Salt, pepper, nutmeg

I found the recipe a few years ago in an article called How to Cook Perfect Moussaka in the Guardian newspaper. For now, I've chosen the easiest we can start with. Once you get the basics down you'll easily substitute ingredients and decide what flavors you like the best. It's no secret I'm unimpressed by casseroles.

Instructions

Instructions to make Moussaka for the lazy:

1. Sauté the mince and the finely chopped onion in a medium sized pot with a bit of water, deglaze with the wine, add 3 tbsp oil, the tomato, salt and pepper and boil for about half an hour on low heat. When it is ready, crumble the feta cheese in the pot.
2. Oil a medium sized deep baking tray. Layer the potatoes cut into slices (about 1 cm thick).
3. Wash the eggplants, salt them, cut them into strips and layer them on the tray over the potatoes.
4. Cover the tray with aluminum foil and place in a hot oven for about half an hour (or until the potatoes are tender).
5. Take the tray off the oven and spread the mince mix on top.
6. In the same pot (after rinsing it a bit, of course) prepare the bechamel. Melt the butter over low heat (take care that it doesn't brown!!!) and add the flour, whisking constantly.
7. When the ingredients combine add the milk while cold, raise the heat and whisk until it thickens.
8. Remove from heat, add the spices and the egg yolks dissolved in 2 tbsp milk and spread  in the baking tray, over the rest of the ingredients.
9. Bake the moussaka until the bechamel is golden brown.

For those who aren't familiar with moussaka, it's basically like a Greek lasagna, except it's layered with lots of vegetables rather than noodles. You also have a delicious spiced meat layer and a creamy bechamel sauce. It really is the comfort food of Mediterranean cuisine! Make our easy moussaka for an instant crowd pleaser. Vegan moussaka with creamy bechamel - Lazy Cat Kitchen.

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