Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pastitsio. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pastitsio is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Pastitsio is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pastitsio using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pastitsio:

1. Get 1/2 cup Olive Oil
2. Make ready 2 lb Ground Beef
3. Take 1 cup Dry White Wine
4. Prepare 14 oz Tomato Puree
5. Prepare 1 large Yellow Onion
6. Get 3 tbsp Chopped Fresh Parsey
7. Take 1/2 tsp Ground Allspice
8. Prepare 1 1/2 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
9. Get 3 tbsp Breadcrumbs
10. Get 1 packages Elbow Macaroni
11. Take 4 Egg Whites
12. Make ready 1 Unsalted Butter
13. Get 1 Salt and Pepper to taste
14. Prepare 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
15. Make ready Bechamel Sauce
16. Make ready 1 cup Unsalted Butter
17. Get 1 cup All Purpose Flour
18. Get 1 quart Milk, warmed
19. Make ready 8 Yolks, lightly beaten
20. Get 1 pinch Nutmeg

The Pastitsio (or Pastichio) is a famous Greek pasta bake with a spiced meat sauce and a silky Nothing speaks family dinner better than Pastitsio! You may also know it as Greek pasta bake, and. A baked Greek pasta with flavorful lamb (or beef) bolognese & nutmeg-infused bechamel. Pastitsio is a layered Greek pasta casserole dish, made with tubular pasta, meat sauce and topped with bechamel sauce.

Instructions to make Pastitsio:

1. Heat olive oil in large saute pan. Add ground beef and cook over medium heat. Add onions and cook until translucent.
2. Add wine, tomato sauce, parsley, allspice, cinnamon, salt and pepper. Allow to simmer over low heat 10 minutes. While sauce is simmering cook pasta.
3. Rinse noodles to cool slightly.
4. Stir breadcrumbs into meat sauce to absorb extra liquid. Remove from heat.
5. Melt 1/2 cup of butter in pasta pot and return noodles to the pot. Stir in beaten egg whites and 1 cup of Parmesan cheese. Toss lightly, do not break noodles.
6. Brush pan with olive oil. Layer bottom with half the noodles. and press down firmly. to make flat.
7. Layer beef evenly over pasta. Layer remaining pasta over beef.
8. Preheat oven to 350°F and start preparing Bechamel Sauce.
9. Melt butter in sauce pan over low heat. Using a whisk add flour continuously stirring to make smooth. Allow mixture to cook not brown.
10. Add warm milk in a steady stream, whisking continuously. Simmer over low heat until thickened but does not boil.
11. Remove from heat and add in beaten yolks. Add a pinch of nutmeg.
12. Bechamel Sauce is thicker than gravy but not as thick as pudding. Pour sauce over noodles making sure to pour down into the corners. Layer with Parmesan cheese.
13. Bake 45 minutes or until golden.

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