Moussaka - How One Of Greece's Most Traditional Dishes Is Made 

Hi from Albania. That's an amazing dish, when cooked properly. I followed the steps, according an old recipe, and it was a dream. It takes much love, time, and there are some secrets someone understands while cooking it itself. Better than most of the representative dishes I have ever tried. I feel kind of proud that I prepared a perfect moussaka. 🙂❤️

I use to work in Chicago, where we had great Greek restaurants. Moussaka was one of my favorites. I live in Tennessee now, which has great food too, but not easy to find Greek food (other than the occasional gyros). I'm hoping someone opens a good Greek restaurant here in Knoxville -- if not, I'll have to wait until I get back to visit Chicago.

Greece has some seriously fine cuisine. Moussaka is utterly superb.

This is the tastiest best flavor of food I have ever tasted. My best friends mother is from Greece and the first time I tasted this I couldn't get enough. I even dream about this dish...❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

I love Greek cuisine! Moussaka is one of my favorite dishes! I have got to dine at this restaurant when I visit Athens!

The authentic recipe had the eggplants and the meat sauce on top. It was the classic mousaka from Μικρα Ασια very old Greek recipe. Over the years potatoes were added to the dish and when bechamel was introduced from France to the region it was added to the top to create the mousaka we know and love today. One of my favorite Greek dishes 👌👌👌🇬🇷💙

I love it ❤️ He even pulls the scraps into it.

The first time I ever ate Moussaka was during my wife's and my three-week honeymoon in Greece, over 30 years ago. We were on a ten-day tour of the Peloponnese, on a lunch stop in Sparta at the time. It was a fantastic dish. We loved it. Unfortunately, these days we can't find a restaurant anywhere here in the southwestern United States that makes good Moussaka - just finding Moussaka in this culinary wasteland is hard enough. We'll have to go back to Greece.

Most Greek food is like healthy salads, but then they have this absolutely killer casserole. One of my absolute favourites. The eggplant + cheese + meat combo is just savoury heaven.

I came here looking for the recipe after eating it in Athens, and OMG, this is the restaurant where I first had it! What luck!

My fav dish of all time ☺️❤️

Hi, Greek here. For God's shake moussaka is not a traditional dish. It was indeed based on a traditional recipe but the dish commonly known as moussaka was a "nouveau cuisine", a fusion cuisine recipe of the early 20th century, invented by a world-acclaimed Greek chef and cuisine author, Nikolaos Tselementes. Tselementes had studied in France and was a lover of the French cuisine. Influenced by the French recipe Hachis Parmentier he introduced bechamel (a non-existing recipe-item in original traditional Greek cuisine - neither creme is used, almost non-existent as well) and combined it with an aubergines dish called "moussaka" more akin to the recipe known as "papoutsakia" (or in Minor Asia as "imam baildi" in turkish) to eventually produce "moussaka". And I think in the same line it was him who invented "pastitsio". Since Tselementes was the first Greek chef to write books, his recipes became best sellers and every single housewife had at least one of his books inside so that by post-war, these recipes were popularised all over the country to the point that when tourism hit hard in Greece in the 1960s tourists thought these were "traditional Greek recipes". Since tourists liked these recipes, Greeks offered them in restaurants and thus it somehow stuck that "moussaka" and "pastitsio" are traditional Greek recipes. They are not. They are "fusion cuisine" rather than traditional Greek one. Yet they are nice recipes, if you have the time and patience to do them, certainly not for novices.

I ate at this restaurant! Last month with my b-day! It was amazing!

Can you please add numbers to this recipe? How much gram of beef? Potatoes? How much tomato purée? Etc. With what did he season the eggplants?

That's great I'll try it myself

the essence in Greek cuisine is offering food to family, to your neighbor, to someone that happens to visit and quite often just to someone strange that happens to pass by at lunch time.. Moussaka has that complexity that merge ingredients with preparation in a way that calls you to love cooking and imagining the finished dish even before even start the actually cooking.. it takes time and time is the most tasteful ingredient to this dish..

We have moussaka in Turkey as well but for some reason Greek version is more deliciousssss

I love my moussaka,as well as my spanakopitta,(I hope I spelt it right),dying for a traditional Greek coffee....and please the desserts are heavenly...

Moussaka actually is an Ottoman dish. However it is originally Arabic. The name is even arabic. Yes there are Balkan ( Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc. ), Turkish, Lebanese and Syrian versions.

Challenge accepted. I'm definitely going to learn how to make this.

Love this dish, I’ve made it often but use lamb mince 🇬🇧

Could you supply recipe as to amounts of flour, oil, etc for bechamel sauce. I would like to replace potatoes with turnips as it fits better in my diabetes diet. Thanks for approximate recipe.

One of my favorite dishes as a Detroit kid. Now I make it for Easter but mine is vegan.

I was taught this recipé many years ago by a half Greek-half Scottish girl.she said the trickiest part is the bechemel based sauce, and that done properly it should have the consistency of blancmange, ie it should be self supporting even when deep. I thought she used yoghurt in it but I may be wrong.....anyone else heard this?

This is not a step by step way to make a traditional Moussaka. This is just an overall way to show how this traditional dish is made.

I always think this is a greece lasagna, lowkey.

Anybody knows what’s the resturant’s name?

I like to add white and black sesame on top of the bechamel before putting the mousaka in the oven.

My french ass was chocked with that olive oil base bechamel but I forgive him as he explained why 🤣

I've cooked it veganized and healthyfied and the dish is truly amazing.

Im curious on spice variations and possibly cheese variants

What could we substitute the eggplant for?

Good God that is lovely¡

Łaciate polish milk is staing on the table (left) Good point!!!

What is the name of this restaurant?

Mouzakka means MAKING IT COLD in Arabic. It is Arabian food. CMIIW

The sound editing is very annoying. Constantly cutting out and resuming high energy, multi layered instrumental songs. So bad I have to mute the video half way to see how its made!

Seeing the diplated partheon in Athens makes me want to see Athens at it's classical splendor

I am wondering why if tou fry the potatoes why you wouldn't fry the sliced aubergine ina little olive oil too? 🤔

eggplant 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 🇨🇦 aubergine 🇬🇧 🇮🇪

Wishing the correct amount of ingredients & directions were included in this post.

did the narrator say ''it's time to blanch the bechamel'' ? How is it possible that it got aspproved and made it all to way here? It'S a cookin channel for christ's sakes. Mind-boggling.

The way the narrator says his name😂

ALL HAIL GREEK!♥

Where is the recipe for the sauce?

moussaka is originally arabic and comes from the levant even the word moussaka is arabic

I think a 100-year old recipe qualifies as 'traditional' But NEVER put potatoes in a mousakka.

3:22 Yeah, ok, and the potatoes were deep fried in unknown vegetable oil. Oh, and use zucchini over the meat. That is from the botton of the pan, potatoes, egplant, meat zucchini, bechamel sauce.

It looks like a shepherds pie but with bechamelle instead

Lebanese dish, mousakkaa in Lebanese means cold. A dish served cold an never heated after it cools down. Greeks. added a western twist on it. Mediterranean cuisine doeant have bechamel on it and cheese on top, the real Mediterranean cuisine.

Looks like a more sophisticated Lasagna. I'd definitely like to try it.

It is Turkish -- like swedish meatballs and German Doner --- TURKISH.

We need robot moussaka.

Greece? While Turkey and Greece have made Moussaka globally famous, they are the not the nations who introduced this dish. According to the Greeks, this dish was introduced by the Arabs when they brought the aubergine.

Hello

Tha most important part in this recipe is the sauce but he did not show us how to make it or how much ingredient to use therefore I will not use it

It’s basically Arabic dish . Love to Greece 🇬🇷

This only shows the ingredients, Without a published recipe it's worthless. The best moussaka I ever had was at a little restaurant on Santorini, then 2nd on Mykonos. I also had it on Rhoads.

Lasati balta bunica facea musaka formidabila la Bucarest

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Fun fact greeks of course learnt musakka from Turks but in this case of food theft, something interesting had happened. Nikólaos Tselementés, a greek chef who was heavily inspired by french cuisine puts bechamel sauce on top in 1920. Voila... you have greek national dish which of course has ottoman cuisine roots with french influence. Fyi real musakka is just eggplants with tomato sauce. And it is very delicious.

It is a Greek dish by now.

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ORIENTAL?

Turkish Devsirmes making Generic Turkish food 👍

If mousaka is greek or Turkish what does it mean in both languages? 🤣🤣

Best food Greeks eat and it is probably a Persian recipe. We invented Baba Ghanuj.

Basically cottage pie with eggplant

That's not bechamel sauce at all

This recipe is less than 100 years old… 😂

I wish these people could pronounce Greek words lol

Super interesting, but that robotic narrator is frankly awful

Mousaka is an Egyptian dish not greek even the name is egyptian

It loolks Italiano Lasagne🤔

Φίλε μάγειρα , ο παραδοσιακός μουσακάς γίνεται ΜΟΝΟ με μελιτζάνες ,χωρίς πατάτες !!

It's 'Musakka' and it's a Turkish food

its not greek

It is Turkish dishes

greece copying turkeys every dish

Bulgarian version is better

Is it pronounced 'MOU' ssaka, mou 'SSA' ka, or moussa 'KA' ?

Wow this looks delicious. I've never heard of it.

المسقعه هي طبق عربي وسميت بهذا الأسم لأنه يمكن اكلها وهي بارده ايضا طبعا تختلف عن هذه النسخة لأنها لا تحتوي على صلصة الباشاميل وشكرا ❤️

Looks like a shepherd pie to me

Every good food came from asia. Europe cant make good food without asian influences

any place where the olive oil is kept in a gallon pitcher I MUST EAT AT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for the bechamel did he put butter and olive oil only but it looks white.?

This version of mussaka is very delicious. For those who belive moussaka is not Greek, you are right. Turks/ Otomans come to Thracia and balkans after 1400 year, when there was no potatoes,tomatos, corn e.t. The potato's comes after 1596-1600 probably later from Inkas in south America, eggplant come from China in 8-12 AD to Balkans, introduced by Arabs. But the Greeks made this delicious recepies grom all that ingredients. I personally don't use eggplant in mussaka.

Can you supply the recipe please.

Real traditional.moussakas has only 3 parts - aubergine, mince and bechamel. No potatoes, courgettes, carrots etc which are used by most restaurants as cheap fillers/substitutes.