Hi, I am Joana. Today, we’re going to prepare pastitsio (greek pasta bake) recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a very simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Pastitsio (greek pasta bake) Recipe
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pastitsio (greek pasta bake) using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio (greek pasta bake):
- Take 500 grams (gluten free) pasta e.g. fusilli
- Get 1 sea salt
- Prepare 1 extra virgin olive oil
- Make ready 500 ml (semi-skimmed) milk
- Get 3 tsp margarine
- Take 6 tbsp corn flour
- Get 2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Take 500 grams minced veal or extra lean beef
- Prepare 250 ml tomato passata
- Make ready 1 large onion, finely squared
- Get 1 clove garlic, finely grated
- Make ready 1 tsp grated cinammon
- Make ready 2 tsp allspice
- Get 2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- Take 1/2 cup red dry or 1/4 cup cognac
- Make ready 1 cup grated goat’s cheese (e.g. feta)
Steps to make Pastitsio (greek pasta bake):
- Boil the pasta in salted water and a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil , until al dente. Then drain. You shouldn’t need to rinse with cold water, because you added oil during boiling.
- Boil the milk in a pan and then reduce the heat. Add the margarine and cornflour ehile continuously stiring to avoid burning at the bottom of the pan. I used a hand mixer at a slow speed. When the sause is slightly thick , you add the nutmeg and set aside.
- In another pan, you saute the minced meat. When brown and all juices are reduced, you add the finely chopped onion and grated garlic until transparent and flavour the minced meat. Then you pour either the or cognac. If kids are sharing this dish, then you can skip the alcohol. Then in go the passata and spices. You reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes or until you get a thick sauce with some juice left.
- In a baking tray, you place half of the pasta with some grated cheese and a scoop of the white sauce whle mixing everything evenly. Then you pour on top of the pasta mix, all the minced meat sauce with a scoop of the white sauce. Finally, you place the remaining pasta with some grated cheese ontop of the previous layers. At the end, you pour the remaining white sauce and grated cheese on top of the final pasta layer. You bake for 20- 30 minutes in a pre- heated oven (at 180oC) or until the top layer becomes golden (I know mine looks more brown :-) ).
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