Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pastitsio. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Make ready 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
- Make ready 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
- Get butter
- Prepare For the mince layer
- Prepare 750 g ground beef
- Get 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Get olive oil
- Take 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
- Prepare 500 ml Passata
- Take salt
- Take pepper
- Make ready ground nutmeg
- Make ready 500 ml water
- Take 200 ml red wine
- Take For the bechamel sauce
- Prepare 7-8 tbsp flour
- Prepare 250 g butter or margarine
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Get 1 can evaporated milk
- Get 1 can water (use the now empty milk can)
- Get 300 g grated cheese (this portion is taken from the 500 g grated earlier)
- Prepare salt
- Prepare pepper
- Prepare 1 level tsp ground nutmeg
A delicious Greek recipe made with ziti pasta, ground meat, béchamel sauce cheeses and herbs! Pastitsio is a layered Greek pasta casserole dish, made with tubular pasta, meat sauce and topped with bechamel sauce. The name pastitsio comes from the Italian "pasticcio", where in some parts. The Pastitsio (or Pastichio) is a famous Greek pasta bake with a spiced meat sauce and a silky Nothing speaks family dinner better than Pastitsio!
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.
You may also know it as Greek pasta bake, and. A baked Greek pasta with flavorful lamb (or beef) bolognese & nutmeg-infused bechamel. Baked Greek Pasta with Lamb. Παστίτσιο παραδοσιακό από την Αργυρώ Μπαρμπαρίγου Η συνταγή και όλα τα μυστικά επιτυχίας, για το πιο κλασικό και αγαπημένο φαγητό της μαμάς! Guests always seem to gobble up this authentic Greek beef and pasta casserole.
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