Moussaka is an aubergine - or potato-based dish, often including ground meat, which is common in the Balkans and the Middle East, with many local and regional variations.
A dish of Greek moussaka
Moussaka and Greek salad at a taverna in Greece
Potato moussaka prepared in North Macedonia
Musakka and pilav in Turkey
Solanum melongena is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae, grown worldwide for its edible fruit, typically used as a vegetable in cooking. It is known by a number of names, including eg
Moussaka
…Moussaka (, UK also , US also ; see below) is an aubergine (eggplant)- or potato-based dish, often including ground meat, which is common in the Balkans and the Middle East, with many local and regional variations…
Solanum melongena 24 08 2012
White eggplant compared to two chicken eggs
Illustration of an eggplant (upper picture) in a 1717 manuscript of a work by the thirteenth-century Persian Zakariya al-Qazwini
Illustrations of an eggplant from a possibly fifteenth-century French manuscript of a work by Matthaeus Platearius. The word melonge, below the illustration, has a blue initial M-.