Labor Day grilling: how to smoke a meatloaf

Name: Labor Day grilling: how to smoke a meatloaf
Prep time: 3 h 15 min
Cook time: 3 h 15 min
Total time: 3 h 15 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters ketchup or barbeque sauce; 118 milliliters carrots, grated; 1 egg; 59 milliliters egg whites; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 907 grams ground venison, lean beef or turkey ((The leaner the beef, themore likely the meatloaf will fall apart. But the lower the calories and fat grams!); 177 milliliters ketchup; 1 onion, finely chopped; 2 whole wheat or gluten free bread

Need If you have barbeque sauce, onion, ground venison, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the egg you could follow this main course with the Rose Levy Beranbaum's Chocolate Tomato Cake with Mystery Ganache as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 3 hours and 15 minutes.

Instructions

Set smoker for 250 degrees.Soak the bread in warm water in a small bowl enough to moisten the bread but not too much so it turns into mush

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Bread

Water

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Bowl

Place the ground meat in a large bowl.

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Ground Beef

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Bowl

Add softened bread, onion, carrots, garlic, egg, egg whites, and ketchup.

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Egg Whites

Carrot

Ketchup

Garlic

Bread

Onion

Egg

Mix with your hands until all the ingredients are incorporated.Put meat mixture into a specially prepared loaf pan (see above).

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Meat

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Loaf Pan

Place loaf pan on lower rack, just above the water pan.

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Water

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Loaf Pan

Add mesquite wood chips and smoke for 3 to 4 hours until the center registered 160 degrees.If necessary, pour off extra juice that gathers on top of the loaf pan every hour.You can finish the top with ketchup or barbeque sauce about 30 minutes before the meatloaf is finished smoking. Some people like to use bacon instead.

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Barbecue Sauce