Greek Moussaka Recipe - How to make traditional Greek Moussaka

http://www.recipesbynation.com - How to make traditional Greek Moussaka using minced / ground lamb or beef and egg plant (aubergine). A classic greek recipe.

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[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!

[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.

[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.

[Vikaki200]

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

[andyrockevo]

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

[emmaminiepink]

@kabalacity pestaaaaaaa....

[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

[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.

[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 :)

[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.

[HalifaxHercules]

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

[tsol006]

Wow, this is a good video