COOKS AROUND TOWN - Mousaka
Fancy a bit of Greek tonight? Make yourself this Mousaka.
Ingredients
Two aubergines, thinly sliced
Three large potatoes, thinly sliced
One large onion, finely chopped
One clove garlic, crushed
Four tomatoes chopped
500g minced lamb
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Three fresh eggs
500ml milk
200g cheese, grated. I used Gouda but Cheddar would do
100g butter
Fresh juice of one lemon
4tbs semolina
Salt and black pepper
Olive oil
Method
Preheat the oven to 180c.
Heat some oil in a large frying pan and lightly fry first the aubergines and then the potatoes, for five minutes, setting them aside in a bowl until later.
Fry the onions over a fairly low heat until browned, this should take about 10 minutes, add the garlic and cinnamon and cook for a further minute.
Add the minced lamb to the onions and season well with salt and pepper, stir in the lemon juice. Add the chopped tomatoes, stir well and cook for five minutes.
Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and add the semolina, stir continuously over a low heat for four or five minutes.
Beat the eggs into the milk until combined.
Gradually add the milk and egg mixture to the butter, stirring all the time and continue to stir as you then add about half the cheese into the milk - remove from the heat. Season with salt and pepper.
Now take an oiled oven dish and put in layers as follows: Aubergines, potatoes, grated cheese, all the meat mixture, aubergine, potatoes, milk sauce, and finish with grated cheese sprinkled on top.
Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes checking every now and then to prevent burning. If it does start to 'catch' cover with foil. But you do want the topping to nicely brown as it rises in a manner similar to a souffl.
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