Cauliflower moussaka
Cauliflower moussaka
Directions
- Boil the cauliflower for 5 minutes. Let it cool. It should not become tender. It should still be hard to cut in slices.
- Roast the minced meat in oil until all fat and juice evaporates.
- Add onion, cinnamon, bay leaf, parsley and the fresh tomato and continue roasting until no liquid is left.
- Add salt and pepper, remove cinnamon stick and lay leaf and let it cool.
- Prepare the bechamel sauce by mixing corn flour with fresh butter and lukewarm milk like in the recipe.
- Remove from heat, add nutmeg and mix with egg yolks.
- To assemble the moussaka you need to butter a medium oval size heat proof pyrex, like the one in the picture.
- Cut the cauliflower in half. Each half will be used to create a layer. Cut the first half in thin slices and place the pieces in the surface of the pyrex. Salt them.
- Pour the minced meat on top and spread it all over the cauliflower layer.
- Repeat with the remaining cauliflower.
- Crumble thick pieces of feta cheese on top of the second cauliflower layer.
- Pour the bechamel sauce on top.
- Bake in preheated oven (180 C) for 30 – 40 minutes. If the top of the bechamel sauce becomes brown too quickly cover it with foil.
- Remove from the oven let the moussaka stand and cool for 30 minutes and serve.
This recipe is much alike a recipe of a famous Greek chef, named Vasilis Kalidis, who owns a contemporary Greek Food restaurant, called Aneton.
Ingredients
- 600 grams minced meat, preferably half lamb and half beef
- 1 large cauliflower
- 300 grams feta cheese, crumbled
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 1 parsley bunch, finely cut
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 spoons of corn flower
- 4 spoons of butter (3 for the sauce and 1 to butter the pan)
- 1 lt lukewarm milk
- Pinch of nutmeg
- 2 egg yolks
- Salt
- Pepper
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