Pasta moussaka - Greece

The article provides a recipe for a dish that serves 4-5 people, combining pasta, minced meat, garlic, tomato puree, wine, milk, flour, eggs, olive oil, yellow cheese, cinnamon, black pepper, and salt. The pasta is boiled, mixed with burnt olive oil and yellow cheese, and layered with a meat sauce made by frying minced meat with garlic and tomato puree in olive oil, then adding wine. A milk sauce is prepared by cooking flour, milk, eggs, salt, and pepper, and used to top the pasta and meat layer in a baking dish before baking for 30 minutes.

Boil the pasta in salted water, drain and sprinkle them with some of the burnt olive oil and a little grated yellow cheese while still in the pot. In the remaining hot olive oil, add the minced meat, finely chopped garlic and tomato puree. Season with cinnamon, pepper and salt and fry for 15 minutes. Then pour in the wine and simmer for another 30 minutes. In a separate bowl, mix the milk and flour. Add salt and, stirring constantly, add the eggs. Cook until the sauce thickens. Spread half of the pasta in a greased baking dish and spread the minced meat on top. Cover with the remaining pasta, pour over the milk sauce and sprinkle with a little olive oil and the remaining yellow cheese. Bake for 30 minutes in a moderately ...