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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Meat sauce prep. | 2. In large skillet add olive oil and sauté onion until soft and transparent. In another skillet or wok add the meat, cook until browned. Mix tomato paste with meat. Continue cooking, adding the onions, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and cinnamon. | 3. Cook until all the ingredients are incorporated in one brownish looking well done meat sauce take off heat to cool. Set aside. Cook the pasta in boiling water until half done, Drain and set aside. | 4. Bechamel sauce prep | 5. In a saucepan, melt the butter on a very low heat, As soon as it melts add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon until there are no lumps, and increase the heat to medium-low. Add the milk slowly, stirring constantly with a whisk, and continue stirring until the sauce begins to thicken without being too thick. Remove from the heat and stir in salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Stir in the egg yolks and return to the heat, whisking briskly until well blended. | 6. To Assemble | 7. Grease with olive oil an 8x12 baking oven glass Pan and Spread half the cooked pasta over the bottom of the dish. Spread all of the meat sauce over the pasta, spread the rest of the pasta over it, pour the Bechamel sauce on top and smooth with a spatula. | 8. Bake in the preheated 350 oven 50-60 minutes. | 9. Let stand 20 minutes before serving. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
purpose flour	5	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
butter	4	tablespoons		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
not milk	2	cups		-	-	-	-
salt pepper				-	-	-	-
nutmeg			grated	5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
egg yolk	1 -3			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
pasta				-	-	-	-
penne	8	ounces	cooked	285.7629	38.1017	12.9274	9.0718
olive oil	1/2	cup		954.72	0.0	0.0	108.0
onion	1		chopped	60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
beef	1 1/2		ground	1347.1709	0.0	132.1316	86.6136
cinnamon	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
tomato paste	3	tablespoons		39.36	9.0768	2.0736	0.2256
nutmeg	1/2	teaspoon		5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
oregano	1	tablespoon		7.95	2.0676	0.27	0.1284
salt				-	-	-	-
pepper				-	-	-	-

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