Ina Garten Makes a Greek Dish to ‘Rock’ Her Husband Jeffrey’s World

Lengthy-time Ina Garten followers know that if there’s one factor she loves greater than her meals, it’s her husband Jeffrey. She even has a cookbook named after him! So, when the Barefoot Contessa determined to reward us along with her favourite Greek dish that she makes to “rock” Jeffrey’s world, we’re sitting up and taking notes. (You know it’s going to be good!)

Talking from her kitchen on the Meals Community’s YouTube web page, Garten tells viewers: “I guess Jeffrey thinks I’m going to make a twist on rooster. Properly you recognize what, I’m going to rock his world.”

The way in which she’s going to do this? By making pastitsio, “which is sort of a Greek lasagna.” Yum! She provides floor beef and floor lamp to a stovetop, the place she’s already been sautéing onions for the recipe. “It’s the lamb that makes it so Greek, no rooster,” she advises.

Garten shares that she got here throughout this conventional Greek recipe when she was trying to find one-pot meals to make for dinner, calling this one “completely scrumptious.” To season the meat combination, she pours purple wine and sprinkles a number of completely different spices — together with cinnamon, which Garten calls “a basic Greek mixture” paired with the lamb — to liven issues up.

Now that the bottom of the dish is simmering, Garten begins engaged on the subsequent half. This includes an enormous can of crushed tomatoes in puree amongst different components, that are mixed into the meat combination as nicely.

For the pasta, she makes use of small shell noodles, which she cooks in a pot of boiling water whereas all the things else remains to be simmering. “Small shells are great as a result of they kind of distribute themselves by way of the sauce,” Garten explains. Sounds good!

Lastly, she works on one of the best a part of the entire thing: the cheese sauce! She creates her personal by pouring milk, cream, and different components in a saucepan to make her personal “bechamel,” a “white sauce.” As soon as that’s completed, she begins including all of the layers collectively. The shell noodles go on high of the tomato-and-meat combination, then are unfold right into a baking dish. She additionally provides Greek yogurt (becoming!) to savory meal. Pour the completed cheese portion on high, making an attempt to not drool everywhere in the high by chance! Freshly grated parmesan cheese make up the ultimate delicious layer.

“I imply, doesn’t this look scrumptious?” Garten asks. When she pulls it out of the oven, Garten predicts that the dish will probably be “scorching and bubbly” and her husband will probably be a “very blissful man.”