Saturday, November 5, 2016

Recipe: Meatloaf

A meatloaf is the ultimate comfort food.

This one is easy make and comes out of the oven out moist and delicious

Ingredients:

2 lb ground beef
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup bread crumbs
4 oz sliced mushrooms (1 1/2 cups)
1 cup chopped onion
1 tbsp chopped garlic
3/4 cup brown sugar
BBQ Sauce
3 tsp Worchestershire Sauce
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Olive oil pan spray


Before you get started, turn on the oven and preheat it to 325°F. Coat a saucepan with pan spray, and saute the mushrooms, onions, and garlic over medium heat. Let the mixture cool some while you work on the rest of the ingredients.

In a large bowl, whip the eggs, stir in the milk, worchestershire sauce, kosher salt, and pepper, and then add in and knead together the ground beef and bread crumbs. As you continue to knead the mixture, add the brown sugar and the mushroom/onion/garlic mixture.

When the ingredients have been mixed together thoroughly, Transfer your meatloaf mixture from the bowl to a baking dish*.  Press down to make the meatloaf match the shape of the pan, and strive for a mostly level loaf. A crown is ideal..

Pour the BBQ sauce over the top of your meatloaf. You're not looking to smother it: just create a pattern of poured BBQ sauce on the top to give it some nice color and ensure that, when it's cut, every slice will have some BBQ sauce on it. Cover the whole thing with foil.

Cover the meatloaf with foil, and bake it for about 55 minutes at 325°F.  Remove the foil and continue baking for another 15-20 minutes. The loaf should be 160°F in the center.


* Most meatloaves are cooked in a baking dish which is 13 x 9. I use a 8 x 8 square dish for a thicker loaf.. The tradeoff is that the smaller dish yields fewer slices. With two pounds of ground beef, this is probably too big for a "loaf" pan (9 x 5).

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