Recipe of Award-winning Papoutsakia

Papoutsakia.

Hey everyone, hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, papoutsakia. One of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Papoutsakia is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It's easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Papoutsakia is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook papoutsakia using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Papoutsakia:

1. {Get 4 of aubergines.
2. {Prepare of Cheese, grated.
3. {Prepare of Mince.
4. {Get 500 g of mince.
5. {Take 1 of onion.
6. {Take 2 cloves of garlic.
7. {Make ready 1 can of chopped tomatoes.
8. {Get 1 tbsp of tomato purée.
9. {Get 1 of carrot, grated.
10. {Take 1 of bay leaf.
11. {Take 1/2 stick of cinnamon.
12. {Get 60 ml of brandy.
13. {Make ready of White sauce.
14. {Get 600 ml of milk.
15. {Take 40 g of flour.
16. {Get 40 g of butter.
17. {Prepare 1 of egg.
18. {Make ready of Salt.
19. {Get of Tomato sauce.
20. {Prepare of Water.
21. {Make ready 250 g of passata.
22. {Prepare of Olive oil.
23. {Prepare of Salt and pepper.

Steps to make Papoutsakia:

1. Cut in the aubergines in half, leaving the top stark attached. Score flesh in a diamond pattern, put oil and salt on top then cook at 200oC for 30min.
2. For the mince, brown the mince in a pan then add the onions and garlic. Cook for 5min.
3. Add tomato purée, brandy, cinnamon stick, sugar, bay leaf, carrots and chopped tomatos. Season with salt and pepper. Put the lid on the pan and simmer on low heat for 30min. Remove cinnamon after 5min.
4. For the white sauce, put the butter, flour and milk in a sauce pan, heat and stir continuously until thicken. Take of the heat, add the egg and stir in..
5. To assemble, in an oven proof dish, lightly mash the aubergine flesh with a spoon and make a crater for the mince. Add the mince then white sauce and finally the grated cheese on top..
6. For the tomato sauce, mix the passata, oil and water. Pour into the dish so it surrounds the aubergines but doesn’t go on the top of them..
7. Cook at 200oC for 40min.

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