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Easy Meatloaf Recipe
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Meatloaf recipe is the
delicate choice of your dinner table. Meatloaf is the perfect choice of food
for your busy & bustling days or weekends when you find something colorful
and tasty while doing literally nothing. Generally, meatloaf has flavor packed
inside with ground beef meat, colorful spices and glazed with sweet and tangy
sauce. Below, you will find out about easy meatloaf recipes that you can make
in no time!
Recipes
for meatloaf
Meatloaf recipe is a
classic European dish derives from meatballs. This classic recipe has range of
cooking techniques and loads of tasty ingredients. Don’t get confused about
loads of ingredients. We will show you the simple and fast meatloaf recipe that
you can make with less effort.
The following recipes
are easy, classic, and amazing recipes suited according to the taste of
different people and their culinary imagination. Check the recipes below.
A real EASY recipe
This easy recipe
includes not much ingredients. It is easy and simple to make. You need total
one and a half hour to cook including preparing and serving this recipe. You
need to make the meatloaf at first and later tomato sauce for additional taste.
Check the recipe below.
Ingredients
Meatloaf
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Milk 1 cup
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6-8 Bread slices
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Ground Beef 2 pounds
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Grated parmesan 1 Cup
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Salt
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Ground Black Pepper
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Seasoned salt ¼ teaspoon
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Flat-leaf parsley ½ cup
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4 Beaten Eggs
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10 to 12 Bacon Slices
Tomato Sauce
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Ketchup ½ cup
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Brown Sugar 6 Tablespoon
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Dry Mustard 1 Tablespoon
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Hot Sauce small quantity or 2 tablespoon
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Worcestershire Sauce small quantity or 2 tablespoon
The step-by-step guide
Preparing Ingredients
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Preheat the oven to 350 to 370 degrees F
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Get milk ready to pour over bread
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Sit several minutes to soak it into
bread
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Have ground beef, milk-soaked bread,
Parmesan
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Also salt, pepper, seasoned salt,
parsley mixed in a bowl
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Mix the ingredients well while adding
all the eggs
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Use foil-lined broiler pan for loaf
shaped meat
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The foil-lined pan will allow fat to
drain from the meat
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Use bacon slices over the top of the
meat
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Also, put them underneath the meatloaf
for support
Making Tomato Sauce
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Take the ketchup and pour into a bowl
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Take brown sugar and dry mustard to add
into the bowl
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Also, add hot sauce and Worcestershire
sauce
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Mix it well with all the ingredients in
a bowl
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Add 1/3 of the sauce on top of the
meatloaf
Cooking
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In the oven bake the meatloaf for 45
minutes
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After 45 minutes, add some tomato sauce
on top of the meatloaf
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Bake for another 20 to 30 minutes
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If the meatloaf has pink spots, bake it
more for a few minutes
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Sit for 10-15 minutes before serving
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You can spread the tomato sauce on the
side
A Classic Recipe
We call this recipe
‘classic' because the ingredients including preparation processes are very much
simple and your mom surely used to make it. This recipe just needs a total one
hour to finish with additional time to serve. Check the recipe and its
ingredients below.
Ingredients
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Ground beef 1lb
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Bread Crumbs 1 Cup
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Yellow Onion small pieces ½ cup
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Milk ½ cup
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Large beaten egg 1 cup
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Ketchup 2 Tablespoon
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Worcestershire Sauce 1 Tablespoon
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Dried parsley leaves 1 Tablespoon
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Salt 3 or 4 Tablespoon
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Garlic Powder ½ Tablespoon
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Ground Black Pepper ¼ Tablespoon
Topping Purpose
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Ketchup ¼ cup
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Light Brown Sugar 2 Tablespoon
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Red Wine vinegar 1 Tablespoon
The step-by-step guide
Preparing Ingredients
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Preheat the oven to 350 to 370 degrees F
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Take a bowl and add the beef, bread crumbs, onion, milk, eggs
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Also add 2
tablespoons ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, parsley
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With salt, garlic
powder, and pepper and mix them well
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You can use your hands to mix the ingredients
well
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In a loaf pan, add the meat mixture and
pat the meat down to even layer
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Stir the ketchup and brown sugar with
vinegar in a bowl
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On top of the meatloaf, add some sauce
and spread into even layer
Cooking
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In an oven bake it for at least 1 hour
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Sit for 10-15 minutes
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Now you can enjoy this classy meal
Caution
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Make sure you mix all the ingredients
well
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Make sure; mixing doesn't make it soft
or mushy
A recipe that is worth the
labor and time
This is one of the less
ingredients recipes but a little rigorous to follow for some people. But the
end result is always inspiring for foodies as you will get the recipe juicy
with flavorful taste. Check the recipe below.
Ingredients
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Ground beef
2 lb
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Milk ¾ cup
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Italian Breadcrumbs ¾ cup
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Onion small pieces 1/3 cup
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Chili Sauce 1 Tablespoon
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Italian seasoning
1 Teaspoon
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Chopped parsley 2 Tablespoon
Preparing Sauce
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Chili Sauce ½ Cup
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Ketchup ½ Cup
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Brown Sugar 2 Tablespoon
The step-by-step guide
Preparing Ingredients
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Preheat the oven to 350 to 370 degrees F
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Take a bowl and combine eggs, milk, and
breadcrumbs
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Mix it well and sit for 5-10 minutes
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Take beef, onions, chili sauce, Italian
seasoning and parsley in a bowl
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Mix it well with the bowl ingredients
Cooking and Serving
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Take loaf on the baking tray and bake
for 40-45 minutes
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Mix chili sauce and ketchup and spread
the sauce mixture over meatloaf
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Bake for another 15-20 minutes until it
properly gets cooked
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Sit for 10 minutes before slicing
meatloaf
Do you love a moist
meatloaf?
So, after all the
recipes above you may start loving meatloaf recipes while preparing meatloaf is
not a very much complicated task to do. If any step in the recipe goes contrary
to the making or cooking, you don’t need to follow those. But you need to
follow some advice and rules that would make your recipe delicious. Follow the
recommendations below.
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Make sure you mix the meat with
ingredients very well
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Keep your keen eyes on meatloaf; it may
get attached to the pan sometimes
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Use spatulas to remove meatloaf from the
pan
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You can use parchment paper for easy
removal from the pan
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Also, make sure mixing ingredients don’t
make meatloaf to get soft or mushy
Mistakes that might
spoil your meatloaf
So, you are ready to
make the meatloaf after the brief discussion above. But to cook it perfectly
and get the special taste out of it, you need to follow some easy and few gems
of advice to get the meatloaf moist free. Follow the recommendations below.
Not including the fat
Determining the proper
amount of texture and lean or fat meat ratio, you need to decide the amount
ratio in quick succession. The fat in the meatloaf creates liquid, and as a
result, the meatloaf becomes moist. Check the recommendations for fat below.
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The ratio of 70 to 80 percent meat and
20 to 30 percent of fat is acceptable
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Expert recommends using 30 percent of
fat
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Make sure your meatloaf gets the proper
juicy and greasy flavor
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Leaner meat contains less fat, so add
more liquid to replace it with meat juices
Not including cooked
vegetables
Yes, the recipes we
have discussed above are all about meatloaf, and you might be wondering why we
are referring you to add vegetables. Vegetables have roles in meatloaf recipe.
Vegetables add moisture and flavor to your recipe. You can use raw veggies to
bring variations in flavor.
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You can use carrots and green vegetables
that you can eat raw
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These colorful and tasty veggies will
bring variations in your meatloaf
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If you are reluctant to use veggies,
just cut onions or similar veggies in small pieces
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Cutting small pieces will make veggies
unrecognizable
Ignoring the idea of
soaking the bread beforehand
Bread is the essential
part of meatloaf. Most of the meatloaf recipe includes breadcrumbs, but the
whole bread is also similarly used in meatloaf. It helps to take away all the
moisture from meatloaf and binds the meat together. For moist meatloaf, soak
the bread in milk and blend them together in the mixture.
Using the meat before
it’s properly seasoned
Without proper
seasoning, meatloaf is obviously just a plain raw spicy meat. You don’t find
the taste or features that you expect from a meatloaf recipe without proper
seasoning. You need to be judgmental and predicting the right amount of salt
and pepper is a bit difficult task.
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Season the meatloaf with salt and pepper
before mixing it with ingredients
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Adding dried herbs or spices will cover
up the seasoning a bit
Not leaving the meat
for some time
If you can't resist
your tempt to have the cooked meatloaf soon, then I should tell you that you
need to wait a bit of moment. During the sitting time and right after cooking,
meat consumes required moisture into its surface. If you start to slice the
loaf with no time to give it rest, you will get the dry meatloaf.
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Keep the meatloaf rest for at least five
minutes before cutting it
Conclusion
Meatloaf is a classy
and flavorful recipe. This tasty, delicious meat recipe might be your first
choice to make your weekend hunger free. The above methods and recommendations
will help you make it perfectly. To make your meatloaf recipe perfect and
flawless, you need to consider the above suggestions in mind, every time you
make it.
So, following these
simple steps start making your tasty meatloaf and focus on making it more
flavorful by bringing variations.
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