Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Paleo moussaka

Paleo Australia is a really good website to find recipes. Found a few good ones there so give it a try.
This recipe was alright, I'm not sure if maybe I didn't do it correctly. The flavour is really tasty but maybe it was a bit too wet.

Ingredients
serves approx 4
1 onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, diced
500 g mince meat
½ sweet potato, thinly sliced
½ zucchini, thinly sliced
½ small eggplant, thinly sliced
3 mushrooms, thinly sliced
½ red capsicum
1 can chrushed tomatoes
3 tsp tomato paste
1/4 cauliflower head
1 parsnip
½ small leek, sliced
oregano
basil
bay leaf
paprika powder
cayenne pepper
salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

In a frying pan, cook chopped onion and garlic in a bit of olive oil until soft. Add in mince and brown off with paprika powder, salt and pepper to taste. Pour out the excess juice and fat and transfer into a bowl to wait on the side.

In the same pan, pour in the canned tomatoes, add salt and pepper, bay leaf, some herbs and reduce until you have a nice thick sauce.

In an oiled baking tray, begin to layer the ingredients. Start with sweet potato and zucchini on the bottom followed by a thin layer of mince, tomato sauce and mushrooms. Begin next one with eggplant, zucchini, capsicum and mince until the tray is 3/4 full, finishing with the sauce on top. Keep pressing the layers down firmly.

Put cauliflower and parsnips through a food processor on the fine grater mode to get an even crumble. Combine the crumble with sliced leek in a bowl. Spread over the dish as the top layer. Garnish with herbs and drizzle with some olive oil.

Cover the tray with aluminium foil and bake for 40 minutes. Remove foil and bake for a further 20 minutes at 220 degrees or until surface is golden brown. Sprinkle some cayenne pepper on the top before serving.




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