Eggplant Moussaka
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 2 Eggplant
- salt
- 6 Tbsps olive oil
- 500 grams Tomatoes
- 2 onions
- 2 garlic cloves
- 500 grams Ground meat (beef or lamb)
- 250 milliliters dry white wine
- 1 generous pinch sugar
- ½ tsp Ground cinnamon
- freshly ground peppers
- 3 sprigs parsley
- 4 Tbsps Sunflower seed
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 80 grams White bread crumbs
- 80 grams grated Graviera cheese (or Gruyère)
- 30 grams butter
- 3 Tbsps Pastry flour
- 500 milliliters milk
- freshly grated Nutmeg
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 3 eggs
- butter (for the baking dish)
- 150 grams soft Feta
Preparation steps
Rinse eggplants and cut lengthwise into approximately 0.5 cm (approximately 3/16 inch) slices. Infuse about 20 minutes in salted water, then drain and pat dry. Fry eggplant slices in portions in 1-2 tablespoons of hot oil until golden brown in a frying pan. Drain on paper towels. Scald tomatoes in hot water, rinse with ice cold water, peel, remove stem and cut flesh into cubes. Peel onions and garlic and dice. Saute both in 2 tablespoons oil in a pan. Add ground meat, mix and fry until crumbly. Stir in tomato, white wine, salt, sugar, cinnamon and pepper. Simmer covered over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Rinse parsley, shake dry and chop finely. Add sunflower seeds and oregano into meat mixture, simmer for another 5 minutes then remove from heat.
Preheat oven to 180°C (approximately 350°F).
Add bread crumbs (up to 2 tablespoons) and mix half the gruyere cheese into the meat. Heat butter in a saucepan, stir in flour and let sauté briefly. Stir in milk slowly and bring to a boil, cooking just over 5 minutes while stirring on low heat. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and lemon juice and allow to cool slightly. Whisk 2 eggs and stir with remaining gruyere (up to 2 tablespoons) into the sauce.
Grease a baking dish with butter. Mix 1 egg with the meat. Line baking dish with half the eggplant. Cover with meat mixture, add half the sauce on top. Cover with remaining eggplant and remainder of sauce. Crumble soft feta cheese and sprinkle over along with remaining cheese and bread crumbs. Bake in oven about 1 hour, then remove and serve while still hot.
