
Chef Joyce's Moussaka
Ingredients:
Meat Sauce:
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 pounds lean ground beef
- 2 large white onions, diced
- 8 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 15-ounce can tomato sauce
- 3/4 cup dry red wine
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 tsp salt plus more to taste
Eggplant:
- 1 large eggplant (about 1 1/2 pounds), peeled, sliced into 1/2" rounds
- ¼ cup olive oil
Yogurt Custard Topping:
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Method:
Meat Sauce:
- Heat olive oil in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Add ground beef and chopped onion and cook until beef is brown, breaking up beef with fork, about 15 minutes.
- Add garlic and rosemary and cook until fragrant. Mix in tomato sauce, red wine, crumbled oregano , ground cinnamon and nutmeg. Salt to taste.
- Simmer until mixture thickens and is almost dry, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover tightly and refrigerate.)
Eggplant:
- Preheat the oven to 450 F.
- While meat sauce is cooking, cook eggplant.
- Lay a sheet of parchment on a baking sheet.
- Brush the eggplant slices with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Arrange eggplant on baking sheet, avoiding overlap.
- Roast until golden brown, flip and roast the other side (about 15 minutes/side).
Yogurt Topping & Final Assembly:
- Beat yogurt, flour, eggs and ½ cup parmesan cheese together well, reserving ½ cup parmesan.
- Lower oven to to 375 F.
- Grease a 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish.
- Arrange half of eggplant in bottom of dish. Spread meat mixture over.
- Top with remaining eggplant.
- Pour yogurt custard over eggplant.
- Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup Parmesan.
- Cover loosely with foil and bake 1 hour.
- Uncover and continue baking until golden and bubbling on edges, about 10 minutes longer.
- Cool 10 minutes to allow moussaka to settle.
- Serve with a big green salad.
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