🇬🇷 How to Make Pastitsio

Craving Pastitsio? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Pastitsio at home, in about 1 hr 30 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 500g bucatini or thick tubular pasta
• 500g beef mince
• 1 onion, 2 cloves garlic
• 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• Béchamel: 100g butter, 100g flour, 1L milk, 2 eggs, 100g kefalotyri or parmesan
• nutmeg

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Cook the pasta 2 min short of the packet time and toss it with a little butter so it doesn't clump.
2. Make the meat sauce as for moussaka — onion, garlic, mince browned hard, tomatoes, cinnamon, simmered thick.
3. Make a thick béchamel, then beat in the eggs and most of the cheese off the heat, plus plenty of nutmeg.
4. Layer half the pasta, all the meat, then the rest of the pasta. Press it down flat.
5. Pour the béchamel over and rake a fork through the top so it catches colour.
6. Bake at 180°C for 45 min. Rest 20 min. It should cut into clean squares.