Halloween Halfling Meatloaf

Name: Halloween Halfling Meatloaf
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 black olives, halved; 454 grams bulk pork sausage; 3 Tbsps Cajun seasoning; 1 Tbsp corn kernels; 2 eggs, beaten; 2 small slices green bell pepper; 907 grams ground beef chuck; 473 milliliters ketchup; 1 large onion, chopped; 2 slices pickle slices; 237 milliliters crushed saltine crackers

Halloween Halfling Meatloaf is a dairy free recipe with 1 servings. One serving contains 4848 calories, 256g of protein, and 323g of fat. This recipe covers 87% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 50 minutes. If you have pickle, saltine crackers, onion, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the eggs you could follow this main course with the Rose Levy Beranbaum's Chocolate Tomato Cake with Mystery Ganache as a dessert. It will be a hit at your Halloween event. It works well as a main course.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

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Oven

Mix together the ground beef, sausage, onion, saltine cracker crumbs, beaten eggs, and cajun seasoning in a bowl until well combined. In a large baking dish, form the meat loaf mixture into a Halfling shape, with a large head, 2 stubby legs, and 2 upraised arms.

Ingredients you will need

Cajun Seasoning

Cracker Crumbs

Ground Beef

Sausage

Onion

Egg

Meat

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Baking Pan

Bowl

Bake in the preheated oven until the meatloaf is no longer pink inside and just starting to turn brown, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (70 degrees C).

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Kitchen Thermometer

Oven

To decorate the meatloaf's head, pick out about 14 corn kernels, and arrange them into teeth.

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Corn Kernels

Place 1 small green pepper slice on each side of the creature's head for ears; place two pickle slices on the face for eyes, then place 2 black olive halves, cut sides down, in the pickle slices to finish the eyes. One more olive half forms the nose. Surround the monster with a background of ketchup "blood," and bake until browned, about 10 more minutes.

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Green Pepper

Ketchup

Pickles

Olives

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Oven

Let the meatloaf rest for 10 minutes before serving. Just before serving, stick a paring knife in the meatloaf's body, and decorate it with a little ketchup blood.

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Ketchup

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Knife