Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pastitso. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Classic Greek Pastitsio: Pasta Tray Bake Lasagna. Pastitsio is a favorite traditional Greek dinner recipe. It's a Greek version of lasagna- characterized by a white and creamy bechamel sauce used in place of marinara and a.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pastitso using 19 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pastitso:
- Prepare 1 large onion, grated
- Prepare 1/4 lb. Butter
- Make ready 2 lbs ground beef
- Make ready 1 tbsp kosher salt
- Get 1/4 tsp black pepper
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Get 4 tbsp tomato paste
- Make ready 1/2 cup water
- Get 1 egg
- Take Macaroni
- Make ready 1 lb elbow macaroni
- Make ready 3 eggs, beaten
- Get 1 3/4 cups Romano cheese, grated
- Take White Sauce
- Get 1/4 lb butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup flour
- Get 3 cups milk
- Take 5 egg yolks
- Get 1/4 cup Romano cheese, grated
Saute the ground round along with the onion. Greek lasagna from my friend's Greek grandma ~ layers of cinnamon-lace beef, Kasseri cheese and creamy béchamel sauce. Pastitsio - layers of pasta and minced meat in tomato sauce, covered in bechamel, baked to crispy perfection. Pastitsio is to Greeks what lasagne are to the Italians and what mac and cheese is to In Greece, pastitsio is often enjoyed in February, during the weeks that precede Lent, and.
Steps to make Pastitso:
- Brown onion in the butter then add the meat. Keep stirring until the meat is browned.
- Add salt, pepper, cinnamon, tomato paste and water. Cook, uncovered, over medium heat for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until the water is absorbed.
- Remove from the heat and allow this to cool.
- Beat 1 egg very well and add it to the meat mixture.
- Macaroni-
- Cook the macaroni as per the package directions. Then rinse under hot water, drain and put into a large bowl.
- Toss the macaroni with the 3 beaten eggs and the 1 3/4 cup grated Romano cheese.
- White Sauce -
- Melt the butter and add the flour, mix well. This should be done on med-low heat, so you don't burn the butter.
- Gradually add the cold milk, stirring well. Cook this until it's thick, stirring often. Be patient, it needs to thicken up! Remove from heat.
- After about 5 minutes, while sauce is cooling, beat the 5 egg yolks very well and blend into the sauce. Add the cheese and mix.
- Butter a 10"x 14" pan. Put 1/2 of macaroni mix in pan. put meat mixture over the macaroni, spreading evenly. Put the rest of the macaroni mixture on top, also spreading evenly.
- Put white sauce all over the top.
- Bake at 375 degrees for about 45 minutes or until golden brown (you might need to tent it with alum. foil towards the end of cooking).
Pastitsio is a creamy, cheesy pasta dish that is sometimes called Greek lasagna, but it's made with large tubular pasta. Spoon half of the prepared ziti evenly in the bottom and top with meat sauce. Cinnamon and nutmeg add a warm, spicy note to noodles covered in a creamy Parmesan bechamel. I used this to make Greek pastitsio, which I thought turned out pretty delicious. Hide content and notifications from this user.
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