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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Brown chopped meat and onions in a pan with a small amount of pure olive oil. | 2. Drain off fat. | 3. Mix in cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves to meat in pan. | 4. Add finely minced garlic and cans of tomato sauce to meat and spices in pan. | 5. Simmer sauce for 10 minutes. | 6. Boil Ziti in large pasta pot until firm. | 7. Strain Ziti and let cool for 10 minutes. | 8. Add Ziti to large bowl. | 9. Add meat mixture and Parmesan cheese to ziti. | 10. Grease large lasagna baking pan 16x11x3inches. | 11. Pour meat, ziti, cheese mixture into baking pan. | 12. Make sure the mixture fills only half the height of the pan and the mixture is level. Use a wide spatula to gently press down the mixture in the pan so that it lays flat. | 13. Make the cream sauce as described below. | 14. Pour cream sauce over mixture in pan, covering the mix. | 15. Cover edges of pan with foil to prevent over baking. | 16. Bake in preheated 350degree oven for 45minutes to 1 hour until top is golden brown. | 17. Sauce. | 18. Combine 6 eggs and 1/2 quart milk in a bowl. | 19. Melt 1 stick of butter in 6qt sauce pan. | 20. With a mixer or fork mix 15 Tbsp flour to butter to melted butter. | 21. On low heat, mix in 1 cup of egg/milk mixture to sauce pan, stirring continuously or use a mixer on very low setting until smooth (no lumps). | 22. Slowly continue adding milk/egg mixture to sauce pan on low heat | 23. Add remaining 1/2 quart of milk to sauce pan on low heat. | 24. Leave on low heat stirring continuously until slightly thickened (should be the consistency of pancake batter). | 25. No need to cool. | 26. Add to meat mixture in baking pan. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
ziti pasta	2	lbs		806.9352	0.0	179.5204	4.5333
onion	2		chopped	120.0	28.02	3.3	0.3
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
hamburger	2 -3		chopped	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
garlic clove	3 -5		chopped	806.9352	0.0	179.5204	4.5333
tomato sauce	2	cans		-	-	-	-
parmesan cheese	2 -3	cups	grated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
cinnamon	2 -3	tablespoons	ground	-	-	-	-
nutmeg	1	teaspoon	ground	11.55	1.0844	0.1285	0.7988
clove	1	teaspoon	ground	5.754	1.3761	0.1254	0.273
egg	6			429.0	2.16	37.68	28.53
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
flour	15	tablespoons		542.1375	118.6926	8.8134	2.1034
milk	1/2	gallon		1190.72	93.3056	61.488	63.8304

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