Low-Carb Keto Eggplant Moussaka Recipe (2024)

Low-Carb Keto Eggplant Moussaka Recipe – layers of eggplant with meaty sauce in between. Topped with cheesy topping.

Flavorful and delicious, easy to make, Greek cuisine inspired low-carb meal.

I’ve been wanting to share this recipe for eggplant moussaka with you for a while now.

I don’t make it often, but it is totally worth it.

To be honest I rarely make moussaka, either eggplant or potato, but it is one of my favorite meals.

Luckily there is a local restaurant that offers it and I get it there.

Moussaka is an amazing Mediterranean dish, very popular in my home country Bulgaria, but it is kind of time consuming to me, unlike the quick keto meals, grain bowls and salads that I usually make.

Moussaka can be a little less time consuming, if you prep your ingredients in advance.

For example if you are making potato moussaka, peel and cut the potatoes, place them in a bowl with cold water, prep the ground beef in advance.

ThisLow-Carb Keto Eggplant Moussaka Recipe requires cutting the eggplant into rounds and baking it for 10 minutes, this way it dries out a little and layers well in the dish.

This is an optional step, but one of the most important ones in this recipe in my opinion.

There are two kinds of people – people who love or don’t like eggplant.

I rarely cook with it, too.

The very few recipes I’ve shared with you using eggplant are this Grilled Eggplant Salad, Grilled Eggplant Soba Noodles and Grilled Eggplant Caprese Sandwich.

It does not have a ton of flavor, but it takes flavor well from sauces and spices.

It also absorbs a ton of grease, which makes it unpleasant on some dishes.

But as with so many other veggies, it tastes great if cooked right.

This is why, I think that taking the extra step to bake the eggplant, before you layer it with the meat sauce is the most important step in this keto moussaka with eggplant.

This way you can taste and see the eggplant, otherwise it will soften, become soggy and get lost in the dish.

I’ve included both regular and low carb, keto option of this recipe for moussaka with eggplant.

Make sure you look through the notes.

There are a few simple adjustments to make this eggplant meat dish keto, like using some crushed pork rinds instead of flour in the sauce.

For the moussaka meat sauce, you can use either ground beef, or a 50/50 mixture of ground pork and ground beef.

This time I used a mix of pork and beef.

For the cheesy sauce on top, I used a little corn starch to thicken it, but you can prepare it with just cheese and some heavy cream.

This Greek eggplant moussaka is the perfect, cozy, homemade family meal.