Béchamel sauce for pastitsio
Béchamel sauce for pastitsio

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, béchamel sauce for pastitsio. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Prepare a meat sauce for Yiayia's Pastitsio Preparing the Bechamel Sauce: In a dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat. Make a roux (Flour and butter mixture to thicken bechamel sauce). Stir in flour and continue to stir until its coated in butter.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have béchamel sauce for pastitsio using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Béchamel sauce for pastitsio:
  1. Make ready 8 tbsp flour
  2. Take 4 tbsp vegetable oil shortening
  3. Get 1 l fresh milk
  4. Prepare 3 eggs
  5. Get salt
  6. Get pepper
  7. Get nutmeg
  8. Make ready 1 cup grated cheese

I guess everyone has his own preferences, but for me the ideal ratio for the best Pastitsio is for the pasta, the meat sauce, and the béchamel sauce to have approximately the same height. If something can be taller, then that would be the pasta. Pastitsio is Greek comfort food, pasta layered with meat, cheese and béchamel sauce. Come to think of it, I think the whole family likes it.

Instructions to make Béchamel sauce for pastitsio:
  1. Place all the ingredients together in a pot, except the cheese, the salt, pepper and the nutmeg. Turn on the heat.
  2. Mix constantly using a whisk until the sauce thickens. Finally, add the salt and pepper, the nutmeg and the grated cheese.

Béchamel is a standard white sauce and one of the five mother sauces of French cuisine but is found in recipes from other cultures as well. A bechamel is a combination of milk, butter, and flour and can be seasoned with onion or other flavorings. Top the cooked pasta with the meat sauce; smooth with a wooden spoon to fully cover the pasta. Now top the meat sauce with the bechamel topping. Again, smooth with your wooden spoon to cover the meat sauce evenly.

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