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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Brown onion in the butter then add the meat. Keep stirring until the meat is browned. | 2. Add salt, pepper, cinnamon, tomato paste and water. Cook, uncovered, over medium heat for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until the water is absorbed. | 3. Remove from the heat and allow this to cool. | 4. Beat 1 egg very well and add it to the meat mixture. | 5. Macaroni:. | 6. Cook the macaroni as per the package directions. Then rinse under hot water, drain and put into a large bowl. | 7. Toss the macaroni with the 3 beaten eggs and the 1 3/4°C grated Romano cheese. | 8. White Sauce:. | 9. Melt the butter and add the flour, mix well. This should be done on med-low heat, so you don't burn the butter. | 10. Gradually add the cold milk, stirring well. Cook this until it's thick, stirring often. Be patient, it needs to thicken up! Remove from heat. | 11. After about 5 minutes, while sauce is cooling, beat the 5 egg yolks very well and blend into the sauce. Add the cheese and mix. | 12. Butter a 10" x 14" pan. Put 1/2 of macaroni mix in pan. put meat mixture over the macaroni, spreading evenly. Put the rest of the macaroni mixture on top, also spreading evenly. | 13. Put white sauce all over the top. | 14. Bake at 375 degrees F. for about 45 minutes or until golden brown (you might need to tent it with alum. foil towards the end of cooking). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
onion	1		grated	60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
butter	1/4			21.375	0.9821	0.6679	1.8
	2	lbs	ground	806.9352	0.0	179.5204	4.5333
salt	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
tomato paste	4	tablespoons		52.48	12.1024	2.7648	0.3008
water	1/2	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
elbow macaroni	1	lb		806.9352	0.0	179.5204	4.5333
egg	3		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
romano cheese	1 3/4	cups	grated	-	-	-	-
butter	1/4			21.375	0.9821	0.6679	1.8
flour	1/2	cup		289.14	63.3027	4.7005	1.1218
milk	3	cups		446.52	34.9896	23.058000000000003	23.9364
egg yolk	5			273.7	3.0515	13.481	22.559
romano cheese	1/4	cup	grated	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.