Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pastitsio. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pastitsio is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pastitsio is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Take 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
- Take 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
- Get butter
- Make ready For the mince layer
- Prepare 750 g ground beef
- Prepare 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Prepare olive oil
- Get 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
- Prepare 500 ml Passata
- Make ready salt
- Prepare pepper
- Make ready ground nutmeg
- Prepare 500 ml water
- Take 200 ml red wine
- Prepare For the bechamel sauce
- Make ready 7-8 tbsp flour
- Get 250 g butter or margarine
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Get 1 can evaporated milk
- Take 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)
- Take salt
- Get pepper
- Take 1 level tsp ground nutmeg
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.
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