Pastitsio with vegetables by Argyro - Awesome
Pastitsio with vegetables by Argyro - Awesome

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Pastitsio is a favorite traditional Greek dinner recipe. It's a Greek version of lasagna- characterized by a white and creamy bechamel sauce used in place of marinara and a hint of cinnamon. And I think you'll find that this is one of the most delicious dinner recipes you've ever had!

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The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio with vegetables by Argyro - Awesome:
  1. Prepare 12 sheets lasagna, I used 500 g rigatoni
  2. Make ready 3 colored peppers -not green- I used yellow, orange and red
  3. Take 2 eggplants
  4. Prepare 2 zucchinis
  5. Get 1/2 cup olive oil
  6. Take 2 1/2 cups graviera (Greek traditional hard cheese) or kasseri ( Greek traditional medium-hard pale yellow cheese)
  7. Prepare half a cup of kefalotyri (Greek traditional hard salty yellow cheese)
  8. Make ready For the sauce
  9. Take 1 kg tomato coarsely chopped
  10. Make ready 1 clove garlic
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil
  12. Take salt
  13. Take pepper
  14. Make ready parsley and a little oregano
  15. Prepare For the béchamel sauce
  16. Get 3 tbsp butter or olive oil
  17. Get half a leek, finely chopped
  18. Take 3 full tbsp flour
  19. Get 750 g tepid milk
  20. Make ready half a cup kefalotyri
  21. Get salt

A baked Greek pasta with flavorful lamb (or beef) bolognese & nutmeg-infused bechamel. A friend introduced Pastitsio to me a couple of years ago and I was instantly smitten. Vegetable Pastitsio. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Greek lasagna from my friend's Greek grandma ~ layers of cinnamon-lace beef, Kasseri cheese and creamy béchamel sauce.

Instructions to make Pastitsio with vegetables by Argyro - Awesome:
  1. Sauté all the vegetables, finely chopped, in the olive oil until they are nicely tender.
  2. Boil the sauce for about 10 minutes with the oil, the salt, pepper and the clove of garlic that you add whole to simply let out its flavor.
  3. Remove the clove of garlic ten minutes later and add a little oregano.
  4. Spread plenty of sauce on the baking tray, then the pasta, unboiled, then the vegetables and finally the cheeses.
  5. Do this twice, to make two layers in the same order.
  6. Prepare the béchamel saucesauté the finely chopped leek in the butter or olive oil until tender.
  7. Then add the flour and mix constantly so that it cooks nicely.
  8. Remove the pot from heat and add the tepid water gradually mixing well so that the sauce thickens and doesn't get any lumps.
  9. When you have added all the milk boil it for a while to thicken but not too much, then add the kefalotyri and after you have stirred it for a while so that the cheese is incorporated, pour it over the last layer of the baking tray making sure it is evenly distributed.
  10. Bake at 200°C without the fan for about an hour, depending on your oven. I baked it for an hour and a quarter because I chopped my vegetables into slightly larger pieces. It is divine!

Pastitsio is Greek comfort food, pasta layered with meat, cheese and béchamel sauce. Come to think of it, I think the. Pastitsio is a layered Greek pasta casserole dish, made with tubular pasta, meat sauce and topped with bechamel sauce. In many parts of Greece and Cyprus, Pastitsio is also called "Makaronia tou Fournou" which means "oven baked pasta". I have posted the Cypriot recipe for Makaronia tou.

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