🇪🇬 Egypt
Moussaka'a
Egyptian messa'aa is a hot tray from the fried-food shop dream: eggplant and peppers under spiced minced meat and tomato, straight to the oven.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 45 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Baked hot with minced meat and green pepper in thick tomato sauce — no bechamel, no chickpeas, eaten with baladi bread.
Ingredients
- 3 eggplants, sliced in rounds
- 300 gground beef
- 2 green peppers, sliced
- 700 mltomato passata
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 tspcumin
- ½ tspchili flakes
- to tasteoil for frying
Method
- 1
Fry the eggplant rounds and peppers until golden; drain well.
- 2
Brown the minced meat with onion, cumin, and chili.
- 3
Layer eggplant and peppers in a tray, spread the meat, and pour over the passata.
- 4
Bake at 190°C until bubbling and thickened, about 25 minutes.
- 5
Serve hot with baladi bread or rice.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4