Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, vegetarian moussaka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Vegetarian moussaka is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Vegetarian moussaka is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Pour in vinegar, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to medium-low; cook until liquid is reduced in volume and thick. In this vegetarian moussaka, a scrumptious tomato-lentil sauce–with a fragrant pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon–is nestled between quick-roasted vegetables, including tender eggplant. And of course to top our eggplant casserole is none other than creamy bechamel sauce! What vegetables go in vegetarian moussaka?
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegetarian moussaka using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetarian moussaka:
- Get 3 cups Boiled Pasta
- Take 1 Zucchini cut in sliced
- Make ready 3-4 Eggplant cut in sliced
- Prepare 1-2 Tomato cut in sliced
- Make ready For the red sauce:
- Take 3 Tomato
- Take 1 tsp Oregano
- Prepare 1 tsp Cumin Seed
- Prepare 1 cup Chopped Olives/Mushroom/ or both
- Make ready 1 cup Chopped Parsley/ Kale or Spinach
- Prepare 1 tsp Corn flour
- Get 3-4 Green Chilli finely chopped(no or less depending on taste)
- Get 1 tsp Olive Oil
- Get For the Béchamel sauce:
- Get 5 cups whole milk
- Make ready 1 tsp Olive oil
- Get 3/4 cup All purpose flour
- Get 1 cup Parmesan cheese/ Mayonnaise
- Prepare Salt and pepper As per taste
It is a layered casserole traditionally made with eggplant, cheese, meat sauce, and béchamel, a white sauce where warm milk is whisked into a butter-flour mixture. Vegetarian Moussaka is a classic Greek dish that it's packed full of flavor and textures. Layers of eggplants, zucchinis, spinach, feta, potatoes, and tomato sauce with a hint of cinnamon and cheesy béchamel, marry together to create an unforgettable experience. Layer the vegetables in the same procedure as lasagna, alternating the different vegetables.
Instructions to make Vegetarian moussaka:
- Baked sliced vegetable at 425 Fahrenheit till golden almost 7-10 mins
- For red sauce: can use ready pasta sauce or tomato, but here I blend 3 tomatoes with Oregano, black pepper
- Now heat 1 tsp oil, add cumin seeds, then roast olives for 3-4 mins and add tomato purée along with corn flour and chilles
- Add spinach,salt and cook mix well and cook till thick like pasta sauce
- For Bechamel Sauce: In pan take oil, add flour, salt and pepper mix well then add milk and cheese or mayo, whisk well on slow flame
- Once it cook well and pretty much thick, off the flame. In baking tray spray it with oil then add pasta,layer of baked vegetables then tomato sauce and layered with bechmel
- Again place some veggies and oregano and baked till golden brown at 425 F in oven.
Layers of eggplants, zucchinis, spinach, feta, potatoes, and tomato sauce with a hint of cinnamon and cheesy béchamel, marry together to create an unforgettable experience. Layer the vegetables in the same procedure as lasagna, alternating the different vegetables. Season between the layers with salt, pepper and parsley. Save most of the tomatoes for the top layer. Vegetarian Moussaka Most of the times when you taste a very flavorful dish, like Moussaka for example, and then try its Vegetarian version, it might leave you a bit disappointed and have you really missing that meat inside.
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