Greek Moussaka Recipe - How to make traditional Greek Moussaka

[andyrockevo]

Without Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil ...Theres no Mousakas..

[terminal27ut]

This is not greek moussaka, sorry. Bechamel totally wrong. (no cheese, missing nutmeg, milk should be voiled with onion and need salt! )

You could say this is your private version of a traditional greek moussaka. I hope your others recipes are better.

[bokiboy]

Thank you very much for the recipe and your video is most amazing. I mean the way you explained everything but edited the boring parts was just superb.Thank you very much, I will be making moussaka today (but w/o cinnamon, but timian instead). Greetings from Norway

[HalifaxHercules]

Since tomatoes and potatoes are native to the Americas, I wonder why some Greek dishes, like Moussaka, would use it as an ingredient?

[cturksen]

@HalifaxHercules You are right. However, you will be suprised to see almost every Turkish dish today contains either chopped tomatoes or tomato paste. We Turks, like Italians, love tomatoes. Homemade tomato paste making is a very popular summer activity for Turkish families. 

[cturksen]

When I told my grandmother that "no Ottoman Sultan had ever tasted tomatoes before mid 1800's", She was very much suprised. I guess this is also true for our Greek friends. Potatoes have a little earlier but a similar history :)

[BigJonas7]

@cturksen, too true. Kapodistrias, who was a high minister in a way those days, made the greeks eat potatoes as they hesitated to try them, by inventing a story about a ship full of treasures. This fairytale attracted all sorts of people, who managed to sneak into the boat, since the guards did the blind eyes, on kapodistria's bidding. When those people finally came to realise that the treasure, which they had just eaten, was pure potatoes, they were amazed and thus is how we begun to eat them.

[tsol006]

Wow, this is a good video

[Siennistakingovernow]

If you are not Greek? then what are you? : D

[Siennistakingovernow]

I LOVE Greek cuisine!!!! Are you Greek too??????

[recipesbynation]

@Siennistakingovernow No I am not Greek, but love Greek islands and the beautiful hot weather,and yes the cuisine is very nice.

I try to go to a different one every year - Cepalhonia, Zante, Crete, Rhodes, beautiful places. Love Cyprus too (I know it's an independent nation, the south and the northern part being Turkish) have been there 3 times!

[sixamaras]

different moussakas but still looks allright. good job !

[andreaskotsos]

I am chef and i am telling you that it isnt original mousaka.

[GreekBiaaatch]

i always use potatoes in the dish too.. and adding cumin 2 ur mince sauce makes a HUGE difference :) plz try the cumin!

[masajay1]

yes, we will all eat skata, mmmmmm, so sweet, just like your mother´s moussaka

[masajay1]

good video, thanks! music, camera work, cool! don´t pay any mind to comments like kabalacity,he, she obviously is a bitter one!

[kabalacity]

This is not mousakas this is bechamel with a lot of skata(shit)

κισις μενι μαλακεεεεεεεεεεεεεεες

[recipesbynation]

@kabalacity Well, I have made this skata for a lot of people and they love this skata.

[kabalacity]

@recipesbynation Then eat skata cuz this is not an original GREEK mousakas..

i m very happy that u all out there eat skata me bechamel

Καλη χωνεψη!

[sethsdad123]

@recipesbynation ...Nicely made vid. Fast & to the point! rock on :)

[Nimertis]

@kabalacity FAIL just FAIL h typissa re XD

ante na er8ei pros ta dw na faei tpt mpas kai ligdwsei t'anteraki ths

na ma8ei pws einai o mousakas na mhn postarei malakies

[cturksen]

@kabalacity be polite, some people prefer it with bechamel sauce. i personally don't.

[emmaminiepink]

@kabalacity pestaaaaaaa....

[cscooterdan]

I have been craving Moussaka and found this recipe most appealing. I am making it for dinner tonight.

[mpleportals]

Most people on youtube just fry the mince. This is plain wrong! Well done. However next time add some feta cheese, a cinamon stick and breadcrumps in the mince. The breadcrumpts will absorb some humidity and the moussaka will not swim into liquids.

You handled the eggplants the right way. On the top use kefalotyri or if not possible parmezan

[SargeEmpath]

nice! and classic yes!

[1b1o1r1e1d1]

That was sooooooo delicious! My family and I loved it

[1b1o1r1e1d1]

I'm making this right now! So far it looks amazing. :P I'll let you know how it turns out. :)

[spinneyhex]

@Beriaal Potatoes in moussaka? eew

[senda990]

Also, you can put the egg plant slides in the oven and do not fry them. It will be more healthy and with less calories.

[Sarkrum]

@senda990 If you want low-fat food, then stay away from Greek food. They are usually quite generous with the olive oil. But for the love of all that's good, make it the right way, and go for a walk instead of making the dish worse.

[cturksen]

@Sarkrum i do not fry the eggplants but bake them in an oven until light brown. this way you may avoid at least half of the olive oil (and no bechamel sauce :) for decoraton use minced fresh parsley after cooking.

[recipesbynation]

@Beriaal Moussaka recipe does not include potatoes, but for the potato lover, a simple side dish to accompany this recipe would compliment it very well.

[iphone13G]

@recipesbynation  let me tell you,every one in greece use potatoes

[Vikaki200]

@recipesbynation mousaka recipe does include potatoes!! And this is not the authentic recipe, maybe it's delicious but different than the original mousaka :)))

[cturksen]

@Vikaki200 mousakka has nothing to do with potatoes, at least in turkey and parts of greece which i know ...

[Vikaki200]

@cturksen I don't know about Turkey but here in Greece we use potatoes!!! Mousaka without potatoes=baklava without peanuts :)))

[cturksen]

@Vikaki200 it is obvious that we have different recipes. i've checked it with a local greek family, whom i know and they are still living in izmir (smyrina). they said "we have heard about it, but we do not follow that practice, for centuries" :) anyway. on the other hand baklava in today's turkey is filled and decorated with either walnuts or pistachio. my greek family friends also confirm this. perhaps it is a matter of availability. we follow eastern (anatolian) greek cuisine here in izmir.

[Vikaki200]

@cturksen Nice! Yes, people who live in the west coasts of Turkey have different recipes but also quite similar to ours! Well, you have to try mousaka with potatoes, it's the same recipe but you put fried slices of potatoes at the bottom!! And I have to taste turkish baklava, we see it on tv and it looks delicious :)))

[cturksen]

@Vikaki200 i've beek cooking various eggplant dishes for my daughters for last two weeks. when i told them one of my greek friends recommended me to cook musakka with potatoes they said "we have been eating egplants for last two weeks, please daddy!" i give them a week of pause, and the first eggplant dish i'll cook for them will be your mousakka recipe with potatoes. thanks for the recommendation and the recipe Vikaki200. best regards.

[malletmathew]

it's is a simple!Easy cooking for me.

Thank you!

[thani191]

any news on the song in the background???

thanks buddy!!

[thani191]

any news on the song??

thanks

[kittykooky]

Just made this, will eat later. G, Manchester, England. x

[szudani1]

Great video thanks your help! IoI

[fartyscratchy]

Absolutely fantastic. The bechamel was a bit lumpy but I used the electric mixer to duff up the lumps. I forget this time to fry the aubergines but the oven took care to soften them up and it had the usual nice bittery auberginy taste...Lovely.

[recipesbynation]

@fartyscratchy Glad you liked it. Love Greek cuisine.

[thani191]

Can you please tell me where you got this song from??? i love the song in the background!!!!!

Btw thanks for the recipe looks amazing!! i will try it soon!

[wifey4lyf]

that looks so yum