Pastitsio recipe: baked pasta with meat and bechamel

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Ingredients

500 g (1 lb) macaroni
6 tbsp olive oil
50 g (2 oz) kefalotiri cheese, finely grated
(you can replace this cheese with any ordinary grated cheese)

For the meat sauce

500 g (1 lb) minced beef or lamb
4 tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and chopped
2 large onions, finely chopped
125 ml (4 fl oz) water
6 tbsp olive oil
1 bay leaf
Salt
Pepper

For the Bechamel sauce

750 ml (24 fl oz) milk
100 g (3½ oz) kefalotiri cheese, finely grated
3 eggs
60 g (2 oz) butter
60 g (2 oz) plain flour
¼ tsp nutmeg