So this week I tried a recipe from "The Chew" on ABC. It was chef Michael Symon's Greek dish, Pastitsio. It is a layered dish with a meat (ragu) type sauce, tube shaped pasta (mustacholi), a bechamel cream sauce, and a top layer of cheese,Greek yogurt and eggs. The time stated on the recipe was 60-120 minutes, and it was indeed an hour before I got it into the oven. It was labor intensive, although no difficult technique is required, it uses almost every pot and pan in your kitchen by the time you're done! I took pictures at the vaious stages:
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This is the meat/eggplant ragu when completed.
Bechamel (cream) sauce
Egg, yogurt, cheese toppi
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The layering process
The finished dish
So, did we like it? Yes (only one person was indifferent). Am I making it again? Not anytime soon. It was good, but in my opinion not good enough for the time/mess factor. Sorry Michael!
Note: the recipe suggests using Kasseri cheese in the topping, which I bought and used, but did not think it brought much to the dish for the added $6.00, so go with the parmesan instead!
Here is the recipe:
http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/the-chew/recipes/Pastitsio-Michael-Symon
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