Moussaka (lightened up a bit) (ingredients, ground turkey, cinnamon, nutmeg)

[springfieldva]

I threw this together last night using the ingredients that I had on hand.

Low Carb Moussaka

1 medium to large sized eggplant

Meat sauce:

3/4 pound ground turkey
8 ounce can no salt added tomato sauce
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 t garlic powder
salt
pepper

Faux bachamel sauce

15 ounce container part skim ricotta
2 eggs (beaten)
dash white cooking wine
1/2 t nutmeg

Topping

shredded low fat mozzarella
parmesan cheese

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 425. Peel and slice eggplant. Place in a single layer on cookie sheets. Brush lightly with olive oil and sprinkle lightly with salt/pepper/garlic powder. Bake 5 minutes. Flip and bake 5 more minutes. Reduce temp to 375.

In the meantime brown ground turkey. Add cinnamon, garlic powder, pepper and a little bit of salt. Add tomato sauce.

In separate bowl. Mix ricotta, egg, white cooking wine and nutmeg.

When done. Spray a pyrex baking dish with nonstick. And layer:

Drizzle about 1/3 of the meat mixture into the dish (it does not need to fully cover the dish), add a layer of eggplant, ricotta. Repeat ending with a light layer of ricotta on the top. Sprinkle on parmesan and a light amount of mozzarella. Cover and bake 1 hour.

[bobby.bruno]

You sound like a great cook, if you just threw that together

[springfieldva]

Originally Posted by bobby.bruno

You sound like a great cook, if you just threw that together

Thanks. Layered dishes always look a lot more complicated than they really are. The recipe is actually pretty easy to make. It's a lot like the eggplant parm (or lasagna) that I make, I just adjusted the ingredients a little to make it moussaka like. Authentic moussaka involves fried eggplant, an entire stick of butter, flour, etc. which is just a bit too rich for me.

At any rate, I thought this lightened up version turned out delicious.