Receta · Albania

Pastiçe

Baked pasta with meat and béchamel

⏱ 1.5 h🍽 Serves 6

The Albanian family-table pasta bake: tubes of pasta, a minced-meat layer and a thick white sauce baked golden.

Pastiçe
Photo: Nesakitchenhome, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Përbërësit

Ingredients

  • 500 g macaroni or penne
  • 500 g minced beef
  • 1 onion, 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • For the béchamel: 80 g butter, 80 g flour, 1 L milk, 2 eggs, nutmeg
  • 100 g grated cheese

Përgatitja

Method

  1. Boil the pasta until just underdone and drain.
  2. Cook the onion and meat, add the tomato paste and a little water, and simmer 15 minutes.
  3. Make the béchamel: cook butter and flour, whisk in the milk until thick, cool slightly and beat in the eggs.
  4. Layer half the pasta, the meat, then the rest of the pasta in a dish. Pour the béchamel over and sprinkle with cheese.
  5. Bake at 190 °C (375 °F) for 40 minutes until golden.

Video

Watch it made

Videos are by independent Albanian cooks on YouTube. Their method may differ from ours.

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