Traditional “All-American” Meatloaf

Name: Traditional “All-American” Meatloaf
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps dark-brown sugar; 5 teaspoons teaspoons dry mustard; 118 milliliters fresh flat-leaf parsley, leaves, loosely packed; 1 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary, plus more needles for sprinkling; 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed; 227 grams ground pork; 227 grams ground round; 227 grams ground veal; 118 milliliters ketchup; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper; 2 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon tabasco sauce, or to taste; 3 slices white bread

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Traditional “All-American” Meatloaf a try. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 316 calories, 23g of protein, and 17g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. A mixture of dark-brown sugar, pepper, tabasco sauce, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the dark brown sugar you could follow this main course with the Brown Butter Brown Sugar Cookies as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

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Remove crusts from bread, and place slices in the bowl of a food processor. Process until fine crumbs form, about 10 seconds.

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Bread

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Food Processor

Bowl

Transfer breadcrumbs to a large mixing bowl. Do not substitute dried breadcrumbs in this step, as they will make your meatloaf rubbery.

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Breadcrumbs

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Mixing Bowl

Place carrot, celery, yellow onion, garlic, and parsley in the bowl of the food processor. Process until vegetables have been minced, about 30 seconds, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl once or twice. (Chopping vegetables this way saves time and ensures that vegetables will be small enough to cook through and not be crunchy).

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Yellow Onion

Vegetable

Parsley

Carrot

Celery

Garlic

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Food Processor

Bowl

Transfer vegetables to bowl with the breadcrumbs.

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Breadcrumbs

Vegetable

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Bowl

Add ½ cup ketchup, 2 teaspoons dry mustard, pork, veal, beef, eggs, salt, pepper, Tabasco, and rosemary. Using your hands, knead the ingredients until thoroughly combined, about 1 minute. The texture should be wet, but tight enough to hold a free-form shape.Set a wire baking rack into an 11-by-17-inch baking pan.

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Mustard Powder

Rosemary

Ketchup

Tabasco Sauce

Pepper

Beef

Egg

Pork

Salt

Veal

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Baking Pan

Cut a 5-by-11-inch piece of parchment paper, and place over center of rack to prevent meat loaf from falling through. Using your hands, form an elongated loaf covering the parchment.Alternatively you could put the meat into a loaf pan,but I like the crust that forms all over from this method.

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Crust

Meat

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Baking Paper

Loaf Pan

Place the remaining 3 tablespoons ketchup, remaining 2 ½ teaspoons mustard, and brown sugar in a bowl.

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Brown Sugar

Ketchup

Mustard

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Bowl

Mix until smooth. Using a pastry brush, generously brush the glaze over loaf.

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Glaze

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Pastry Brush

Add oil to a medium saucepan set over high heat. When oil is quite hot, but not yet smoking, add red onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft and golden in places.

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Red Onion

Onion

Cooking Oil

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Add 3 tablespoons water, and cook, stirring, until most of the water has evaporated. The onions should be jammy.

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Onion

Water

Transfer them to a bowl to cool slightly, then sprinkle onion over the meatloaf (this step is optional).

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Onion

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Bowl

Bake the meatloaf for 30 minutes, then sprinkle rosemary needles on top. Continue baking loaf until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of the loaf registers 160 degrees; about 25 minutes more.

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Rosemary

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