Hi, I’m Kate. Today, I will show you a way to prepare pastitsio recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a very simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I am going to make it a bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Pastitsio Recipe
Pastitsio is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Pastitsio is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To bewith this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:
- Make ready 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
- Get 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
- Take butter
- Take For the mince layer
- Prepare 750 g ground beef
- Make ready 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Take olive oil
- Get 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
- Prepare 500 ml Passata
- Get salt
- Take pepper
- Prepare ground nutmeg
- Prepare 500 ml water
- Take 200 ml red
- Prepare For the bechamel sauce
- Take 7-8 tbsp flour
- Get 250 g butter or margarine
- Get 4 eggs
- Prepare 1 can evaporated milk
- Prepare 1 can water (use the now empty milk can)
- Prepare 300 g grated cheese (this portion is taken from the 500 g grated earlier)
- Make ready salt
- Make ready pepper
- Make ready 1 level tsp ground nutmeg
Steps 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 . 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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