Moussaka – a traditional Bulgarian meal
October 28, 2009
Categories: Cuisine
by Darina
Moussaka is the kind of dish which every Bulgarian housewife knows how to make and is also available in every respectable bulgarian restaurant. If you want to try yourself this popular Bulgarian dish, you can by following the recipe below:
What you need:
- 500gr. chopped meat (pork, beef or mixed)
- 1 kg potatoes
- 1 large onion
- 1/2 cups vegetable oil
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 tbs all purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- Salt, pepper, parsley, savory
How to prepare:
- Cut the potatoes in squares
- Chop the onion
- Mix the onions, potatoes and meat into a baking pot
- Add the spices and the vegetable oil
- Cover the ingredients with water
- Bake in 200 degrees until the potatoes are ready
- Mix the milk, eggs and flour into a bowl
- Take the ready moussaka out of the oven and pour over it the milk, eggs and flour mixture
- Put back in oven and bake until it gets nice red/brown
Enjoy!
Tags: moussaka, traditional meal
Hi
Great to get some traditional recipes – have you any for veggies – no meat/fish or produces thereof. Milk, Veggie cheese (no animal rennet), and eggs are ok. Anything you think would be ok will be appreciated.
Thanks, Lynne
It is a good idea! Well, I am vegetarian but I’d like to prepare moussaka for my husband, I am sure that he has never tried it. Could you, please, post in the future a recipe of a Bulgarian cake (or Bulgarian cookies). I am from Italy and I don’t know anything about Bulgarian recipes.
Hi and thanks for the suggestions!
You can easily make Moussaka a vegetarian dish, if you use courgettes cut in squares instead of the chopped meat. However, I will think also of other Bulgarian vegetarian recipes. Bulgarians like vegetables, there are several veggie dishes I am thinking of right now. I will also check for traditional desserts.
Cheers!
In your instructions you tell us to use water but in the ingrediants you tell us to use oil.
Can you please explain, should be a water and oil solution to cook the moussaka?
It is actually both. The oil from the ingredients and some water to cover the potatoes and meat. I just forgot to write the oil in the preparation, will fix now. Thank you and enjoy the moussaka!
Can you please explain the savory section of the ingrdiants.
Is this the same as mixed herbs?
The savory is a very popular spice in Bulgaria. We call it “chubritsa”. That’s how it looks like. If you cannot find it where you are, you can use Marjoram (Origanum) instead.
More about Chubritsa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubritza
I am by no means a cook, but have now made this meal three times and my (Bulgarian) wife loves it!! More please!!!
This makes me think of the person that went into the diner and asked what the special was and was told that it was boiled tongue and cabbage. He exclaimed, ” I could not eat something that came out of a cows mouth, I’ll have some eggs,easy over.”
I will try to cook this for my boyfriend he is bulgarian and im mexican he likes my mexican food but im sure he would love when i cook this dish for him THANK YOU!!!