Have been using this recipe for years and decided it was time I thank David for publishing and sharing. David, I'm a professional chef/caterer, and there's no better authentic pastitsio than this recipe, right down to the red wine vinegar. It's perfect the way it is written. For those of you who change it until it's unrecognizable, and then review it, shame on you. Prepare it the way it's written, and if you want to change it drastically ---- publish your own recipe, don't review this one.
Delicious! My husband loved this recipe. I used extra lean hamburger and skim milk in the white sauce and it didn't taste like I'd used anything low calorie. Very good!!!
My husband and I loved this! I have made many pastitsio recipes before but this one is my favorite. I loved the taste of the fresh tomatoes in it. At first I was leary about even trying this recipe. First because I thought it was going to be a hassle to peel and seed the tomatoes but that was easy. Secondly because of the chili powder. I just thought how greek does that sound? But I made it exactly per the recipe and am so glad I did. seriously this is good. Thank you!
Wonderful!!! Cant say enough about it. I LOVE pastitsio and cant find it too often outside of Greektown in Chicago. Took me back to Diana's! The spices were just perfect and the way it tasted! WOW!
It was delicious! My kids loved it - I would probably make extra white sauce though.
This comes pretty close to the pastitsio I used to get at a neighborhood restaurant that closed. I make more sauce than the recipe calls for but the flavor is very good.
This dish turned out to be very tasty! We had Cat Cora's Pastitsio at her place in Disney World but the recipes I had found were all for too large a number of servings for my family. This looked interesting and I had most ingredients on hand so we gave it a try. Turned out very good. Changes I made due to my pantry were: I used a shredded combo of mozzarella and parmesian for the cheese canned diced tomatoes chicken broth instead of stock and I was careful with the spices. I did not use chili powder- just salt and black pepper- and I started with half the amounts of allspice and cinnamon. Basically spiced to taste until I got it where I liked it. I will make this again!
The best pastitsio recipe I've found yet. Tastes incredible!
Absolutely great! Plus by using fresh ingredients the calories are about 1/2 of the other pastitsio recipies. But just because it's lower-cal doesn't mean it sacrifices -anything- on taste. This pastitsio is incredible... even my picky 5 year old liked it.
I thought the entire dish was good except the white sauce was very bland. This recipe is good enough to keep but I won't make it with the white sauce again.