Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, vegetable moussaka. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This easy gluten-free and vegetarian moussaka from Eat Well for Less is the comfort food every veggie needs in their life. Pour sauce over vegetables and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. An easy vegetable moussaka dish that consists of juicy veggie meatless mince sauce mingling with layers of sweet eggplant (aubergines) and a velvety creamy bechamel sauce.
Vegetable Moussaka is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Vegetable Moussaka is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetable moussaka using 23 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Moussaka:
- Make ready 1 large Eggplants
- Make ready 300 grams with skin Kabocha squash
- Prepare 1/2 large Onion
- Get 1 to 2 tablespoons Olive oil
- Get 1 dash Coriander or Parsley
- Prepare Chickpea tomato sauce
- Prepare 1 can Chickpeas
- Get 1 can Canned diced tomatoes
- Prepare 1 tsp Olive oil
- Take 2 clove Garlic
- Prepare 1 tbsp White wine
- Get 2 tbsp Ketchup
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Soy sauce
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
- Take 1 pinch each Herbs such as rosemary, thyme, and basil
- Take 1 Salt and pepper
- Get Yorgurt sauce
- Prepare 200 ml Plain yogurt (unsweetened)
- Take 1 Egg
- Prepare 1/2 tsp or your preference Salt
- Prepare 1 pinch Pepper
- Get Cheese
- Make ready 60 grams Your favorite kind of cheese (I used the mixture of mozzarella and parmesan cheese)
This popular Greek dish can be easily made without meat and still tastes amazing. This healthy casserole is a wonderful comfort meal which is flavorful. This vegetarian moussaka recipe may have a long cooking time, but freeze leftovers for a quick and easy midweek meal. Moussaka (/muːˈsɑːkə/, /ˌmuːsəˈkɑː/ or /ˌmuːsɑːˈkɑː/) is an eggplant- and/or potato-based dish, often including ground meat, which is common in the Balkans and the Middle East.
Steps to make Vegetable Moussaka:
- Prepare the vegetables.
- Cut the eggplant into 5 mm thick slices. Place in a colander, sprinkle some salt evenly and rub it with your hand.
- Lay paper towel over the eggplant and place a weight on top of it. Let it sit for about 30 minutes to remove the bitterness from the eggplant.
- Slice the onion and lightly sauté in a heated olive oil.
- Cook the kabocha squash in a microwave. Remove the skin and cut into 1 cm think slices.
- Rinse the eggplant and wipe off excess water.
- In a skillet over medium heat, heat 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil and sauté the eggplant until browned. If it takes a long time to cook through, add a small amount of water.
- For the chickpea tomato sauce.
- Drain the chickpeas and lightly rinse it with water. Smash and mince the garlic.
- In hot olive oil, sauté the garlic, then add all the ingredients for making the tomato sauce (except salt and pepper). Simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes.
- Salt and pepper to taste at the end.
- For the yogurt sauce.
- Combine the yogurt and eggs really well and salt and pepper to taste.
- Assemble: Preheat the oven to 180℃. 20 cm round heat proof container seems to be the right size for this recipe.
- In a heat proof container, make layers with half of the eggplant, onion, kabocha squash, and the chickpea sauce in this order, then repeat again to complete the assembly.
- Top it with cheese and pour the yogurt sauce over it. (It may be easier to avoid spilling by lifting up the ingredients with a spoon and pour the sauce in.)
- Bake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes or until the top becomes golden brown.
- Sprinkle finely chopped coriander or parsley on top if desired.
Try this vegetable moussaka with thinly slices potatoes and spinach leaves, which make Moussaka is a famous dish from Mediterranean and Balkan countries, and there're lots of ways to cook it. Traditionally, moussaka is made with meat as well as vegetables. It's actually a layered casserole dish, very similar to lasagna. Most often, moussaka is made with slices of eggplant, sometimes with. This post may contain affiliate links or sponsored content.
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