Pastitsio

Hey everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to make a special dish, Pastitsio. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have Pastitsio using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

An amazing pastitsio recipe (a layered pasta and mince dish) that has been passed down from generation to generation.  This is my grandmother's recipe, which was then my mother's, then became mine, and now it's yours!

Recipe by stroumfita

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Pastitsio:

1. 500 g various grated cheese or kefalotiri cheese
2. 1 1/2 packets macaroni No3 (usually long, thick, hollow pasta)
3. butter
4. For the mince layer
5. 750 g ground beef
6. 1 large onion, finely chopped
7. olive oil
8. 2 fresh ripe tomatoes, chopped
9. 500 ml Passata
10. salt
11. pepper
12. ground nutmeg
13. 500 ml water
14. 200 ml red wine
15. For the bechamel sauce
16. 7-8 tbsp flour
17. 250 g butter or margarine
18. 4 eggs
19. 1 can evaporated milk
20. 1 can water (use the now empty milk can)
21. 300 g grated cheese (this portion is taken from the 500 g grated earlier)
22. salt
23. pepper
24. 1 level tsp ground nutmeg

Instructions to make to make Pastitsio

1. Boil the pasta in salted water.
2. Strain the pasta using a colander and rinse with cold water.
3. Melt 2 tbsp butter in the pot and return the pasta into the pot tossing it well to coat it with the melted butter.  Leave it aside to cool.
4. Preparing the mince  Sauté the onion and mince in the heated oil until the mince is browned.
5. Add the fresh tomatoes, passata, salt, pepper, nutmeg, water, and allow to simmer for approximately 40 minutes (or until most of the liquid is reduced). Just before removing the mixture from the heat, add the wine.  Let the mince mixture to cool.
6. To prepare the bechamel sauce  Melt the margarine in a saucepan over medium heat, and add the flour, whisking constantly till flour is lightly browned.
7. While whisking constantly, pour in slowly the evaporated milk, water, eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and finally add the grated cheese.  As soon as the sauce thickens, remove from heat and allow it to cool.
8. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
9. In a well greased ovenproof dish, place 2/3 of the pasta to create a bottom layer.  Level out and sprinkle with some of the remaining 200g grated cheese.
10. Next spread the mince on top of the pasta.
11. Cover the mince with the remaining pasta, and more of the grated cheese.
12. Cover the whole pastitsio with the bechamel sauce, and sprinkle with the remaining cheese, which will add extra flavour as well as a golden colour to the finished dish.
13. Place dish in the pre-heated over and bake for approximately 1 hour.

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