Meat and Macaroni Pie from Syros

Pasticcio

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Foods of the Greek Islands

By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 2000

  • About

GREEKS love pasticcio, a dish of ground meat cooked with onions and tomatoes and mixed with macaroni, cheese and cream, topped with a thick layer of béchamel sauce and baked. Although its name is Italian (it means, literally, “a mess”), pasticcio as such does not exist in Italy, but its roots are in the elaborate old timbales—pastry-enrobed pasta, meat, vegetable and egg pies prepared there for special occasions.

I found this recipe in a marvelous book published