2/3 cup Panko bread crumbs or 2 slices soft bread crumbs
1 yellow onion minced (or food processed)
1 1/2 cups shredded carrots (or food processed)
3 crushed tomatoes (or food processed)
2 tablespoons minced garlic (or pre made garlic mix from store)
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 pound lean ground beef, lamb or port
1/4 cup ketchup
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon salt for veggie sautéing
1 teaspoon salt for meat
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
2 tablespoons snipped fresh parsley (we didn't have any so I skipped this)
Instructions
Thaw meet, if in freezer. Cut up veggies into chunks, place in
food processor (including the garlic). Because I don't want the
kids complaining about all the vegetables in the meat, I really
processes it into a pulp. You can decide what size veggie works
for your family. You might want to use other vegetables. (My
measurement after sautéing was 2 cups of veggies)
Sauté all veggies in hot skillet of olive oil and butter. This not only
gets most of the liquid out, but also imparts a nice flavor. Season
veggies with 1 teaspoon salt while sautéing. I let mine cook about
20 minutes until most of the liquid was gone.
Pre heat oven now to 350 degrees. While sautéing, eggs should
be beaten and combined with the milk and bread crumbs. Add
the teaspoon of salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Add in meat.
Add in vegetables when they are cool enough to handle. (I
couldn't wait that long, so I simply added them very slowly,
mixing with my hands, so that not too much hot veggies would
come into contact with the meat or eggs and begin cooking
them.)
Lightly pat mixture into a loaf pan. Put in oven, set timer for 50
minutes. While cooking, combine the ketchup, dried mustard
and brown sugar in a bowl. At 50 minutes, use a thermometer
to check meat. It need to be at 160 degrees before turning off
oven. If yours is almost there (mine was over 160 at 50 minutes)
spoon out fat and discard. Now pour ketchup mixture over
meatloaf and keep baking for another 10 minutes. Let stand for
an additional 10 minutes outside of oven before serving.
Serving
Suggestions
Next time, I would probably double the ketchup recipe and add half of it into the meat mixture before cooking.
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4/30/2010
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