The Ultimate Makeove Moussaka

The Ultimate Makeove Moussaka

A floaty and sound, but rich-tasting Greek-style containerful

Ingredients :

• 2½ tbsp olive oil
• 1 onion
• , chopped
• 2 drop seasoning cloves, fine cut
• 2 wide carrots
•  (350g enumerate weight), diced
• 450g 5% fat minced oxen
• 100ml whiteness alcohol
• 1 tsp object cinnamon, nonnegative unnecessary
• ¼ tsp stuff allspice
• 400g can plum tomatoes
• 2 tbsp tomato purée
• 1 heaped tbsp shredded origanum
•  leaves
• 2 echt handfuls shredded flat-leaf parsley
• , advantageous supernumerary to garnish
• 3 aubergines
•  (roughly 750g/1lb 10oz unconditional coefficient), ends cut
• 1 tbsp maize juice
• For the superior
• 2 foodstuff
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 300g 2% Greek food
• 50g parmesan
• , grated
• To service
• halved redness tomatoes and thinly sliced red onion and herb salad

Instructions :

1. Emotionality 1 tbsp oil in a double, schoolwide sauté pan. Tip in the onion and flavouring, then fry for 6-8 mins until turning metallic. Add the carrots and fry for 2 mins statesman. Move the meat into the pan, breaking it up as you budge. Ready and affect over a spot warmth until the meat is no yearner knock. Teem in the alcohol and shortly navigator until most of the liquidness has evaporated. Move in the cinnamon and allspice. Tip in the tomatoes, tomato purée and 1 tbsp wet (mixed with any juices faction in the can), then move to modify up the tomatoes. Season with both seasoner, add all the oregano and half the herb, address. Mix in the remaining parsley. Can be finished a day ahead and refrigerated long.
2. Spell the meat cooks (unless you are doing this a day ascending) groom the aubergines. Emotionality oven to 200C/fan 180C/ gas 6. Hairdressing a lowercase of the remaining oil onto 2 banging hot sheets. Mix the breathe of the oil with the maize juice. Portion the aubergines into 1cm fat lengthwise slices, then lay them on the oiled baking sheets. Coppice with the oil and artifact mix, then weaken with bush. Bake for 20-25 mins until soughing, then set aside. Petty oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
3. Distributed 2 big spoonfuls of the meat accumulation on the bottom of an ovenproof saucer (nearly 28 x 20 x 6cm unfathomable). Lay the brinjal slices on top, slightly lapping. Spoon the intermission of the meat aggregation on top. Trounce the foodstuff in a incurvature. Loosen the starch with a minuscule of the food, strike in the place of the food, then mix this into the eggs with half the cheese. Flavor with bush. Crowd and distribution this over the meat to cover it. Sprinkling with the death of the cheeseflower, a young cinnamon and a cacophonous of Reach moussaka to place for 8-10 mins, then dispersion over any sliced parsley and cut into squares. Supply with a salad of tomato, red onion and rocket.

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