Moussaka with potatoes and eggplants

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 20 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make moussaka with potatoes and eggplant? Prepare your food. Minced meat is traditionally taken from lamb, but you can use whatever you like or have on hand. I have minced veal. Wash and dry the vegetables, peel the potatoes.

2. STEP 2

   

   Cut the eggplants lengthwise into slices about 1 cm thick. Add salt and leave for 15 minutes until they release their juice. Drain the resulting liquid, rinse the eggplants and dry with paper towels. This way you will remove the bitterness from them.

3. STEP 3

   

   Heat a frying pan over medium heat and add oil for frying. Fry the eggplants on both sides until golden. Fry them in batches, adding oil after each.

4. STEP 4

   

   Finely chop the garlic.

5. STEP 5

   

   In another frying pan, also heat the vegetable oil. Fry the garlic on it for about 1 minute.

6. STEP 6

   

   Add minced meat to the pan. Fry, breaking up any lumps, for 15 minutes. At the end, add salt, pepper and stir.

7. STEP 7

   

   Cut the potatoes into slices.

8. STEP 8

   

   Also cut the tomatoes into slices.

9. STEP 9

   

   Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Any cheese is suitable for this dish - hard, semi-hard, soft, such as mozzarella. The main thing is that it is tasty, of high quality, without milk fat substitutes and melts well.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place potato slices overlapping each other in a baking dish. Spread half of the minced meat on top.

11. STEP 11

    

    Sprinkle half of the cheese over the meat.

12. STEP 12

    

    Pour some of the tomato juice over the minced meat. Repeat layers of minced meat and cheese. Pour over remaining tomato juice. If you don’t have tomato juice, but have a jar of tomato paste, you can make tomato juice yourself: just dilute the tomato paste with clean drinking water in a ratio of 1:2. That is, for 100 g of tomato paste, take 200 ml of water.

13. STEP 13

    

    Place eggplant slices on top so that they completely cover the top layer.

14. STEP 14

    

    Place tomato slices on the eggplants. If desired, the top can also be sprinkled with grated cheese. Bake the moussaka for about 25 minutes at 190°C.

15. STEP 15

    

    Decorate the finished moussaka with herbs, cut into portions and serve. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Mila

21.10.2023

5

I love cooking eggplants in the oven and cook them so often during the season. As an option, I will offer this recipe - eggplants with meat and without potatoes.

Natalia M

21.10.2023

4.7

My whole family liked the moussaka with potatoes and eggplant. I used minced chicken breasts. The combination of potatoes, cheese and minced meat is very successful, and even with tomato sauce. We also love fried eggplants, but there is one caveat. I realized that for moussaka, the eggplants need to be cut thicker and not fried too much, so that they don’t burn in the casserole. Overall, moussaka is a great option for a family dinner. The dish is juicy, satisfying, with a variety of flavors and garlic aroma. The recipe is excellent, I recommend it to everyone!