Everyday Lebanese Cooking by Mona Hamadeh

Author:Mona Hamadeh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lebanese cooking
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: 2012-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

Spinach with Minced Beef and Pine Nuts

Middle Eastern Pasta and Meat Bake

Macarouni

Middle Eastern people call any pasta macarouni. We don’t have a wide range of pasta dishes, it’s either cooked with mince and tomato sauce or with mince and white sauce. In this recipe I used penne.

SERVES 4

2 tbsp oil

2 onions, chopped

500g minced beef

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1⁄2 tsp salt

1⁄2 tsp freshly ground black pepper

350g penne

25g breadcrumbs

For the sauce

70g butter

80g plain flour

650ml milk

3 egg yolks, whisked

1 tsp salt

Serving suggestion

Tomato and Red Onion Salad (link) or a mixed green salad

Preparation time: 40 minutes

Cooking time: 1 hour

• Preheat the oven to 200ºC/Gas 6.

• Heat the oil and fry the onions for a few minutes until lightly brown.

• Add the mince and fry with the onions, stirring, until brown.

• Add the cinnamon, salt and pepper and continue to stir for another minute. Remove from the heat.

• Now make the sauce. In a saucepan, melt the butter, stir in the flour and cook over a low heat for few minutes, stirring continuously, until all the butter is absorbed in the flour.

• Gradually whisk in a little milk at a time and keep stirring or whisking to avoid lumps.

• When all the milk is used up, keep stirring for another 2 minutes.

• Remove from the heat and stir in the whisked egg yolks.

• Meanwhile, cook the pasta in boiling salted water for about 8 minutes or as directed on the package, then turn onto a sieve to drain.

• Grease the bottom of a deep ovenproof dish (any shape will do) with a little butter, then spread half the pasta evenly over the dish. Pour over half the sauce to coat the pasta in the dish. Spread the meat mixture all over the first layer of pasta.

• Spread the remaining pasta over the meat and cover with the last of the sauce. Evenly sprinkle the breadcrumbs over the top.

• Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.

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