Pastitsio
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 118.29 ml butter
- 1.23 ml nutmeg
- 118.32 ml flour
- salt
- 946.36 ml milk
- white pepper
- 4-6 egg yolks
- 226.79 g macaroni, cooked and drained (2 cups raw)
- 28.34 g butter
- salt
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- pepper, freshly ground
- 680.38 g ground beef
- 1.23 ml cinnamon
- 29.58 ml tomato paste
- 118.29 ml dried breadcrumbs
- 177.44 ml red wine
- 354.88 ml kefalotyri or 354.88 ml parmesan cheese, grated
- 2.46 ml nutmeg
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Melt 1 oz of butter in large skillet and saute onion til soft and transparent. Add the meat, cook until browned.
- Mix tomato paste with wine and add to meat. Continue cooking, adding nutmeg, salt, pepper, and cinnamon.
- Cook about 15 minutes, take off heat, cool and mix in half the breadcrumbs and half the grated cheese. Set aside. Do not allow meat to "bulk", keep it separated.
- Cook the macaroni in boiling water with oil til soft. Drain and set aside. Make crema: melt butter, add flour, cook briefly stirring constantly.
- Gradually add milk stirring constantly until it starts to boil and thickens slightly.
- Add seasonings.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs.
- Add about 1 cup of the hot sauce to the eggs, stirring constantly.
- Add the egg mixture back into the saucepan, stirring constantly.
- Stir in 1/4 cup cheese. To Assemble: Grease a baking dish (LIKE A LASAGNA PAN) and sprinkle it with breadcrumbs.
- Spread half the cooked pasta over the bottom of the dish and sprinkle it with 1/4 cup reserved cheese. Spread all of the meat over the pasta.
- Pour half the sauce over the meat and spread the rest of the pasta over it. Sprinkle it with 2 tablespoons of cheese.
- Pour the rest of the sauce on top and smooth with a spatula.
- Sprinkle with the rest of the cheese and breadcrumbs and bake in the preheated oven 50-60 minutes.
- Let stand 10 minutes before cutting into squares.
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