Turkish Moussaka Recipe – Traditional Eggplant and Ground Beef

In this video, we are going to show you a special taste, Eggplant Moussaka.This is one of the most favorite dishes in Turkey,the Middle East and Balkans .It is a good combination of vegetables and ground beef.There are a few different moussaka recipes.Today we will show you Baked Turkish Eggplant Moussaka Recipe.The recipe seems kinda exhausting but it is totally not.After you watch our video,you will see step by step how it’s easy to do .Also you can serve it with rice .Eggplant Moussaka goes with rice well .It could be a good dish for your your guests.If you haven’t watched our rice recipe,you can watch it now.

Firstly we will start with eggplants.Peel them in stripped pyjamas style and then cut them into 1.5 cm slices.Keep them in salty water to remove their bitterness.Meanwhile start to cook meat filling.Put a large pot on heat, transfer olive oil and ground meat.Cook it for 5 minutes till the ground meat is wet with the broth.In Turn add onions,cook it for 10 mins and then add grated tomatoes ,keep cooking for 5 more mins after you close the lid.Add pastes and spieces and mix them well.
On the other hand,Put a frying pan on stovetop and heat the oil first.And then start to fry eggplant slices till the both side of them fry.Place a layer of your fried eggplants on baking tray .Take a spoon of meat filling and put it on each slices.After that cover each one with eggplant slices.Then make a sauce for moussaka.Mix a tablespoon tomato paste with hot water and pour it up over moussaka.Bake it at 200C for 30 mins.Don’t forget to subscribe to not miss our next recipes, we share a new recipe every other day.
Cut stalks of eggplants and peel them striped Cut eggplants into slices Let eggplants stay in salty water for 30 mins to remove their bitterness Transfer olive oil and ground meat in a large pot Sauté it till it’s wet with the broth It left its broth! Add onions Cook it for 10 mins Add grated tomatoes Close the lid of the pot and cook for 5 mins Add tomato and pepper paste and mix them well. add Blackpepper,paprika,salt Close the lid and cook for 2 more minutes Fry them in hot oil Take them from hot oil and place them on baking tray Put a spoon of meat filling on each eggplant slices Prepare a sauce with tomato paste and hot water Pour the ssauce over moussaka Bake for about 30 minutes on 200(400F) pre heated oven
Ingredients for Moussakka
3 large size eggplants
2 large size tomatoes
2 green peppers
Ingredients for Tomato Sauce
1/2 cup of hot water
1 tablespoon tomato paste
Ingredients for Meat Filling
350 gram nonfat ground meaat
1 large size onion
1 tomato
1 teaspoon pepper paste
1/2 teaspoon blackpepper
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon salt