Meatloaf

Butterfly_Brain

This is a favourite of our family:
1 Tsp vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
2 sticks celery, chopped
6oz/175g mushrooms, chopped
2oz/75g cooked lentils
4oz/125g sage and onion stuffing mix made up with boiling water
1 lb/500g mince
salt and pepper
1 beaten egg

Preheat oven to Gas 5/375F/190C
Heat oil in frying pan and fry the onions, celery and mushrooms until soft.
Put in a bowl with the precooked lentils, stuffing , mince, seasoning and beaten egg, mix together well. Grease the loaf tin.
Press down well into a 2lb/1.1Kg loaf tin , cover with foil stand in a tin of hot water and bake in the oven for 1 - 1½hrs
It is also good cold in sandwiches you can add garlic if you want, I don't because my lot aren't keen

Penelope_Penguin

motherkitty wrote: »

Does anyone out there have a nice meatloaf recipe?
Never made it before and thought I might give it a go.
Thanks!

We have a whole thread on meatloaf I'll add this thread to that one so that you can look at more tips and recipes

Penny. x

System

ive bought one to try but was wondering how you would make it .

Pink.

Hi Chrissy,

There's an earlier thread with lots of tried and tested recipes that should help so I've added your post to it to keep the replies together.

Pink

Pink.

Thanks Chrissy for bringing this up.

After seeing your post I looked at the recipes in this thread and realised that I'd never tasted meatloaf before, so as I had all the ingredients in I thought I'd have a go.

This is what I did.....

approx 1lb beef mince
four (thick) pork sausages (skinned)
one large onion chopped finely
one half dead chilli I found in the bottom of the fridge (seeds removed and chopped finely)
a garlic clove crushed
lots of black pepper
a sprinkling of mixed herbs
a decent dollop of ketchup
a good glug of worcester sauce
breadcrumbs (about 4-5 slices of bread)

Put all the ingredients into a bowl. Mix with a spoon until your arm gets sore... then just get in there with your hands.

Put the mix into a small (greased) loaf tin.

Add some water to the slow cooker. Cover the loaf tin with foil (as per one of the previous recipes) and carefully set it into the slow cooker. Cook on medium for about 5 hours. Drain off the juices to make a gravy then turn out the meatloaf.

It's really tasty and means that I don't have to put much thought into dinner for tomorrow night! :j Although teenage ds did ask why there was a 'massive rectangle shaped hamburger' cooling in the kitchen when he got home.

Pink

pavlovs_dog

well i finally got around to this tonight.

in terms of taste i must be onto a winner (OH went back for seconds ). however it was rather more crumbly than i would have liked, despite using 2 eggs to bind it. any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

also, any way to stop it looking quite so anemic in the middle? i did test with a skewer to make sure it was cooked through, and of course when its smothered in gravy no one is any the wiser how pink it looks but it is offputting _pale_

gabyjane

Typed into google and there are so many different ones! has anyone made one that is nice and fairly basic? some have ritz crackers, celery etc in so sound a bit odd from what i have had in the past!!
Thanks

consultant31

Here's two that I've used:-

Dead Easy Meatloaf
1lb Minced Beef
1lb Pork Sausage Meat
1 packet Paxo Sage & Onion Stuffing
1 Egg

Mix all of the above together (I found using my hands the easiest) press into 2lb loaf tin and bake for 2 hours.

OR:-

Meatloaf (slimmers special)

454g lean mince beef
Handful button mushrooms cut into quarters
8-10 rashers extra lean bacon
½ - 1 tsp mixed Italian herbs
1-2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 small onion finely chopped
1 level tbsp tomato puree (½ syn per level tbsp).
1 large egg, beaten
Salt & pepper to taste

Pre heat oven to 200C/Gas 6
Dry fry mince, onion, garlic & mushrooms until mince is brown & the onions & mushrooms are soft – drain off any excess liquid.
Combine all ingredients EXCEPT THE EGG together & mix well, then gradually but thoroughly stir the egg into the meat mixture.
Spray a loaf tin with fry light and line with the bacon, then firmly press the mince mixture into the lined tin.
Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
Serve with vegetables or salad, or save some to have cold for lunch the next day.

Nosmo_King_2

Are you sure his wife won't mind?

consultant31

Nosmo_King wrote: »

Are you sure his wife won't mind?

Am I missing something here?