Love this recipe for busy days! I prep this the night before and put it in the fridge. The first one who comes home only has to put the oven on, stick the dish in and prepare a cup of tea for the others to arrive 🙂 I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do!
The recipe is low FODMAP, gluten free, lactose free and low in histamine.
* Lactose free??? But there is grated cheese in it? Yes, but most hard cheeses are low in lactose, so use grated Edam or Gouda to make sure you can enjoy it without any problems!
Greek moussaka (4 persons)
Preparation time: 60 minutes (including oven-time)
Ingredients
1 eggplant
70 g peeled tomatoes (from a can)
5 tbsp. oil
500 g ground beef
350 g potato slices
Grated cheese
Spice mix:
1 tsp. black pepper
2 tsp. parsley
1 tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. nutmeg
Mix for the sauce:
2 tbsp. oil
40 g buckwheat flour
400 ml rice milk
Pinch nutmeg
Pinch pepper
2 tbsp. tomato juice (remnants from the can)
Preparation
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
2. Cut the eggplant into thin slices and chop the peeled tomatoes.
3. Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in the pan and fry the slices of eggplant all dente and put them a side.
4. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in the pan and fry the ground beef and add the spice mix to the beef. Then add the tomatoes.
5. Grease a baking tray with oil and full up with a layer of the beef mixture, followed by a layer of potatoes and a layer of eggplant slices. Repeat until everything is in the tray, make sure you end with a layer of the beef mixture.
6. Make the sauce: Make a roux of the oil, buckwheat flour and rice milk. Use a pan with a thick bottom. Heat the oil on a middle heat. Add the buckwheat flour and fry this for 2 minutes. Then add half of the rice milk. Mix well with a whisk until the lumps disappear. Now add the rest of the rice milk until your sauce is thick enough. Flavour the sauce with the nutmeg, pepper and tomato juice.
7. Add the sauce to the oven try. At last, you add the cheese on top.
8. Put the moussaka in the oven for 40-50 minutes.
The sauce is a little bit watery when it comes out of the oven. Don’t worry, this is normal! The sauce don’t contain gluten to thicken the sauce, but it is enough for the flavour and it makes the moussaka more creamy.
Enjoy!
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