🇬🇷 How to Make Moussaka

Craving Moussaka? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Moussaka at home, in about 1 hr 45 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 3 aubergines, sliced 1cm
• 500g lamb or beef mince
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic
• 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp allspice
• Béchamel: 80g butter, 80g flour, 700ml milk, 2 egg yolks, 50g grated cheese
• olive oil, salt

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Salt the aubergine slices and leave 30 min, then pat dry. Roast at 200°C for 20 min until golden.
2. Fry the onion and garlic, add the mince and brown it hard. Add tomatoes, cinnamon and allspice.
3. Simmer the meat sauce 30 min until thick and almost dry. Watery sauce ruins the layers.
4. Béchamel: melt butter, cook the flour 2 min, whisk in the milk gradually, thicken, then beat in the yolks and cheese off the heat.
5. Layer: aubergine, meat, aubergine, then all the béchamel on top.
6. Bake at 180°C for 45 min until deeply browned. Rest 30 min before cutting or it slides apart.