prepare the vegetables:
- Wash the eggplants, cut them into thick slices 1cm-1,5cm, salt them enough and leave them for 30 minutes.
- Then wash them with water and squeeze them (not too hard).
- Fry in hot olive oil without browning and put them on absorbent paper to remove the superfluous oil.
- Wash the zucchini, peel potatoes and slice them in thinner slices than eggplant.
- Add little salt and fry them without browning and put those on absorbent paper to remove the superfluous oil.
prepare the minced meat:
- Saute onion in their liquid and add the minced meat and stir with a fork to make small pieces.
- When it changes color, add the wine and stir until the alcohol is gone.
- Add tomatoes, spices, salt and pepper
- Mix well and let them cook until the juice is gone and minced meat to be dry with no sauce and oil.
prepare the bechamel cream:
- In 100ml cold milk dissolve well the flour (you can use a blender).
- Add the remaining milk in a saucepan and let it boil with the stock cube (or a little bit of salt) and butter.
- Then stir with whisk until boiling.
- Once boiling, add the milk mixture to the flour and continue stirring with the whisk slowly until clot and remove from heat.
prepare the moussaka in the pan:
- In a deep pan or Pyrex (about 7cm deep) spread the potatoes first, then the eggplants and at the end the zucchini.
- Add the minced meat on top and poured good to go everywhere.
- Finally add the bechamel cream to cover the mince.
- Cover the pan with foil and bake in moderate oven (180oC-200oC) for about 1h.
- After 1h, remove the foil and leave for 5′-10′ to get a little color.
- Serve once cool enough to be cut into pieces.