Serbian Musaka Dinner Club

6/13/10

Musaka is a dish that lots of different eastern European nations have versions of. This is a Serbian version, similar to the kind I grew up with my Dad making.

You start with some olive oil in a baking dish and a layer of potatoes.

Then you add more potatoes. And spices.

Then well-seasoned ground beef sauteed with onions. I added green peppers to mine.

Then you add another layer of potatoes and pour an egg-yogurt mixture over the whole thing and bake it. The full recipe is here.

Meanwhile, I made baklava for dessert. This is fillo dough getting spread with melted butter.

Layering walnuts and raisins.

Instead of topping with traditional honey, however, I drizzled the finished baklava with dandelion syrup.

The finished meal started with some store-bought stuffed grape leaves.

The finished musaka.

Greek salad.

And here's the inside of the musaka: you can see the way the egg mixture fills in all the cracks.

Baklava!