Monday, January 25, 2010

Monday’s Bread Bowl: Meatloaf

A masterful mix for a meaty main course
The Mixed Stew undresses a recipe that turns a blend of ground meats into a delightful loaf that makes a flavorful cut. This recipe includes ingredients and cooking strategies that can really bring out and compliment the flavor of a regular meatloaf. It is an accumulation of parts of recipes we have picked up from other sources and through trial-and-error over the years.

What you will need:


1 large bowl
1 wooden spoon
1 big baking pan
1lb ground beef
1lb ground pork
1lb ground turkey
1 small yellow onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 slices of bread, toasted and then cut into small cubes
1 raw egg
1 teaspoon kosher salt or any coarse ground salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
pinch celery seed
½ teaspoon ground oregano
1/2 teaspoon ground parmesan

Secret Ingredients:
3-4 whole hard boiled eggs, peeled
2 bacon slices

Cooking and Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ground meats in large bowl. Add salt, pepper, celery seed, ground parmesan, oregano, bread crumbs, garlic, and onion. Mix well with clean hands. Break raw egg in small bowl and mix slightly then add to help bind ingredients with meat. Again, mix the ingredients using your hands. Mold half meat mixture into bottom part of loaf in the center of the baking dish. (Think of shaping it like a long rowboat almost.) Take hard-boiled eggs and lay them evenly spaced along the top of the molded meat. Place them so that most slices of the meatloaf will have some egg. Take the other half of the meat mixture and mold over top so that the eggs become safely centered inside the meatloaf, which should resemble a log in the baking pan. Take bacon slices and stretch them on top of the loaf (side by side or else forming a criss-cross pattern). Place baking pan in preheated oven for one hour. Then take it out and let the meatloaf rest for at least 10 minutes. Slice and serve.

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