Lightened-Up Moussaka

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This streamlined instrumentality connected the Moroccan classical skips the potatoes and dense bechamel and roasts the eggplant alternatively of frying it. A light, tangy food condiment goes connected top.

The eggplant needs to beryllium salted for 20 to 30 minutes and aboriginal baked for 20 to 25 minutes. The moussaka tin beryllium assembled and refrigerated up to 3 days earlier baking; it tin beryllium frozen -- baked oregon unbaked -- for up to 3 months.

From freelance writer Kelly DiNardo.

Ingredients

1 ample eggplant, trimmed and chopped crosswise into 1/4-inch slices
Kosher salt
2 teaspoons coconut lipid oregon olive oil, positive much for roasting the eggplant
1 tiny onion, coarsely chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 lb thin crushed beef oregon crushed lamb
1 cupful adust reddish wine
8 ounces canned, plain herb sauce, preferably Pomi strained tomatoes
2 teaspoons crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon crushed allspice
1/2 spoon freshly grated nutmeg, positive a pinch
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
7 ounces pick cheese
6 ounces feta food (crumbled oregon block, chopped)
1/3 cupful full oregon low-fat milk

From freelance writer Kelly DiNardo.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published September 2, 2014

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Updated March 15, 2026

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