Pastitsio
Recipe: #13244
July 21, 2014
Categories: Ground Beef, Bucatini, Ziti, Greek, Italian Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Beef Dinner, Italian Dinner, Ground Beef Dinner, more
"An amazing baked pasta dish combining a meat sauce and a cream sauce with a cheesy top. One of our favorites."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (290.5 g)
- Calories 647.2
- Total Fat - 37.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 17.7 g
- Cholesterol - 200.1 mg
- Sodium - 436.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 47.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.7 g
- Sugars - 5.2 g
- Protein - 28.9 g
- Calcium - 168.8 mg
- Iron - 3.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Step 2
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add ziti ( bucatini ) and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and return to pan.
Step 3
Melt butter until golden brown and pour over ziti, add 1/4 cup of the Parmesan cheese, nutmeg, salt, pepper and toss well; allow to cool.
Step 4
Add eggs and toss again; set aside.
Step 5
To make meat sauce: Gently fry onion and garlic in butter in a skillet until onion is soft.
Step 6
Increase heat and add ground beef; stir well. Cook until meat begins to brown.
Step 7
Add tomato paste, wine, broth, parsley, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
Step 8
To make cream sauce: Melt butter in saucepan, stir in flour and cook gently for 2 minutes. Pour in milk all at once and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil gently for 1 minute.
Step 9
Add nutmeg, salt, pepper and cool slightly before stirring in beaten egg.
Step 10
Transfer 1/2 cup of this sauce to the meat sauce.
Step 11
To assemble pastitsio: Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
Step 12
Spoon half of the prepared zitii evenly in the bottom and top with meat sauce. Top that with remaining ziti.
Step 13
Pour on cream sauce and spread to completely cover ziti. Sprinkle remaining cheese on top.
Step 14
Bake in a preheated oven for 50 minutes or until golden brown.
Step 15
Let stand 10 minutes before cutting into squares to serve.
Tips
No special items needed.