🇪🇬 Egypt
Macarona Bechamel
An Italian idea that Egypt adopted and never returned; the corner piece with the darkest crust starts family arguments.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 45 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
A thick nutmeg bechamel poured over cinnamon-spiced meat and penne, baked until the top turns bronze.
Ingredients
- 500 gpenne pasta
- 400 gminced beef
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tbsptomato paste
- 1 Lmilk
- 80 gbutter
- 80 gflour
- ½ tspnutmeg and cinnamon
- 1 egg, beaten (into the sauce)
Method
- 1
Boil the penne just shy of done; brown the meat with onion, tomato paste, and cinnamon.
- 2
Whisk butter, flour, and milk into a thick bechamel; season with nutmeg and beat in the egg off the heat.
- 3
Fold a third of the sauce through the pasta; layer half in the dish, all the meat, then the rest.
- 4
Blanket with the remaining bechamel and bake until the top is deep gold.
- 5
Rest fifteen minutes before cutting — the squares must hold.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6