Moussaka with zucchini

Moussaka is budget-friendly, delicious and satisfying. See the recipe! Moussaka is a very popular dish, which, in various variations, is present in many cuisines of the world. I chose a fairly budget option for cooking meat moussaka with zucchini. It turns out delicious!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 26 % 7 g
Fats 44 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 30 % 8 g
163 kcal
GI: 88 / 0 / 13

Cooking method

Cooking time: 2 h 30 min

First you need to prepare the vegetables:

- peel the potatoes and cut into small cubes;

- peel and finely chop the onion;

- peel and grate carrots on a coarse grater;

- peel the bell pepper from the seeds and cut into small cubes;

- peel the garlic and chop it;

- peel the zucchini and cut it into small cubes too;

- wash the parsley, dry it and chop it finely.

Then you can start preparing the basics. To do this, heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and lightly fry the minced meat over medium heat, stirring it. When the meat changes color, add onions and carrots to the pan and continue frying for another 5 minutes. Now you can add tomato paste and bell pepper, mix everything well, pepper, salt and mix again. Reduce the heat under the pan, crush the meat and vegetable mass with a spatula and leave to languish (while the sauce is being prepared).

A saucepan or a saucepan with a thick bottom is used to prepare the sauce. So, you need to put a saucepan on medium heat, put butter, and when it melts a little, add flour and knead intensively with a whisk. When the butter is combined with flour, you can gradually add milk, stirring constantly with a whisk until a homogeneous consistency is formed. After that, reduce the heat and, without ceasing to constantly stir, bring the sauce to a slight thickening, add salt, pepper and set aside to cool slightly.

Season the meat and vegetable mixture with garlic and parsley. In the sauce base cooled to 60 degrees, beat the egg and mix well, and also add a third of the cheese grated on a fine grater.

Turn on the oven to warm up to 200 degrees. Grease a deep baking dish with vegetable oil and start laying layers of moussaka:

1 layer - potatoes;

2 layer - squash;

3 layer - meat-vegetable mixture;

4 layer - sauce;

5 layer - hard cheese.

In order for the lower layers of vegetables to be soaked with sauce, when pouring it, you need to make small funnels in the moussaka layers, which are then smoothed with a spatula.

Cover the mold with foil and send it to the oven for 50-65 minutes.

Serve moussaka with zucchini on the table hot in serving plates, optionally garnished with herbs.

Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Zucchini - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g

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