Greek Pastitsio Recipe: Pastitsio is a comforting Greek lasagna with layers of pasta, a meat sauce, and creamy bechamel. It’s one of those legendary dishes similar to moussaka! This lasagna recipe is easier to make than you think, and you can prepare pastitsio in advance. #lasagna #lasagnarecipe #pasta #pastarecipe #greekfood #greekrecipes
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🍅INGREDIENTS: 🍅
🔹 3 ½ cups uncooked Penne pasta
🔹 Salt
🔹 Private Reserve Greek extra virgin olive oil
🔹 3 tbsp grated Parmesan
For Meat Sauce
🔹 3 tbsp Private Reserve Greek extra virgin olive oil
🔹 1 large yellow onion, chopped
🔹 1 ½ lb lean ground beef
🔹 3 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
🔹 Salt
🔹 ½ cup red wine such as merlot
🔹 28 oz canned crushed tomatoes
🔹 2 dried bay leaves
🔹 ¾ tsp ground allspice
🔹 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
🔹 ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
🔹 pinch sugar
For Bechamel
🔹 ⅓ cup + 2 tbsp Private Reserve Greek extra virgin olive oil
🔹 ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
🔹 ½ tsp salt, more if you like
🔹 ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
🔹 4 cups 2% milk, warmed
🔹 2 large eggs
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⏱️CHAPTERS⏱️
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Cooking the pasta
00:56 – Making the meat sauce
02:18 – Draining the liquid from the meat sauce
02:34 – Substitute for red wine
03:18 – Draining the pasta
03:36 – Making the bechamel sauce
05:22 – Tempering the eggs and adding them into the bechamel sauce
06:10 – Assembling the pastitsio (Greek lasagna)
07:44 – Baking the pastitsio
08:12 – Taste test
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Pastitsio is a comforting Greek lasagna with layers of pasta, a tantalizing cinnamon-spiked meat sauce, and creamy bechamel! In my Egyptian household, this casserole was known by a more literal name: macaroni béchamel. Who's trying it?!
You forgot the cinimin
Tonight I used your meat sauce portion of the recipe and basically made a goulash with spinach and feta tortellini and macaroni. It was just a “stuff we had in the house dinner”, and it was SO good. I added some oregano and didn’t have crushed tomatoes so I just used a can of diced and two cans of sauce. Writing it down so I can make it again. And this recipe is still on my list. Thank you!
Printed easily findable like at end of video would be helpful.. I cook but still seeing the amounts of things like say the herbs would be easier.. At a glance to know if I have I hand or need to buy
I recently made Cincinnati chili which is eaten over pasta and has its origin in the Balkans. The spices have forever changed how I will make a sauce.
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I made it twice this month. The second time, I made the bechamel with butter instead of Greek olive oil. Both times it come out great. I'd post a picture of it if I could.
The Maillard reaction
Can’t lie; you boiled that meat! YUCK!! You should always brown the meat, no?
Holy cow. I JUST made this from an American cookbook. Then I said to my self and my husband, you know there HAS to be an easier way to do this. I used two pans, 4 little bowls, 3 big bowls, 🤦♀️. So I look, and there you are. I just KNEW my friend’s mother didn’t jump through hoops lol. NEXT time… 🙈. Like I’ve always said, your site is the absolute best.
Very nice recipe chef 👍👌👏. I made it last night for lunch today yammy 😋. Thank you for your effort 🌞😎
KHAL par aapke recipes dekh kar hamesha kuch naya sikhne ko milta hai.
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the moment I saw it's penne I know it's wrong 😭😭😭😭😭 I feel this shouldn't be labelled as Greek pastistio as it's misleading. we use the long hollow noodles. it may be more appropriate to refer to it as "your own pastitsio inspired version" of it.
Do cooking food channels really need to show us how to boil pasta at this point?
Lovely!
Not traditional if the correct pasta isn't used….
Love the pot and pan who makes them.
Love this stuff and all Greek food. From Chicago and we'd get a group of friends and go to Greek town. Thanks for sharing love your recipes.
Meat used for Pastitsio is :: Beef + Pork … Lamb tastes just too gamey …. andd Greek Pastitsio s Béchamel is patended by #Tselementes, using nutmeg+ eggs,+ Kefalograviera! Wine is an absolute necessity;Mavrodafni is used:Otherwise it's NOT PASTITSIO 🧡
HELPPPPP. I need a sous chef LMBO😅
If we don't use the red wine, what's a substitute? Stock, vinegar?
We called past with bachamel in our country
Fantastic execution of this lasagna recipe. So precisely explained every stage makes easy follow any level of cook. Thanx..👍🙏
Delicious 😋
ohhh your last comment I soooo looove , sharing of cultures, NO cultural appropriation. love, love this 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
ahhhhh, you gave me an idea, i cooked a tomato soup yeasertaday from scratch,( not from sauce or paste), plenty of left over. So your petstisio is perfect to use it up 😀🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Looks yummy 😋😋😋
Amazing!