A fairly basic meatloaf recipe that I've been tweaking to fit the tastes of my picky wife and daughter. My wife swears she hates meatloaf, but always eats this without complaint and once in a blue moon reminds me I haven't made it in some time. In 27 years together, I've never seen her eat another meatloaf and she didn't finish several I tried getting to this. So, this might be the compromise meatloaf for meatloaf haters and lovers?
Ingredients:
2 lb 85% ground beef (80% works OK too, but don't even think about 93%)
1 cup quick or old fashioned oats soaked in 2/3 c milk
3/4 c finely chopped onion
1/4 c bbq sauce (usually Sweet Baby Rays Sweet n Spicy)
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 T Worcestershire (or soy sauce)
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp paprika
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together, form into loaf, bake at 350 until 160 (around an hour). I usually press it into a saran lined loaf pan, then flip it out onto a grill pan and dome it a bit to keep grease from pooling on top. I have also smoked this a couple times at 250° and it takes 2-2.5 hours and turns out well.
Feel free to make this your own, I think it's a great starting point for a oat based meatloaf versus the traditional bread or cracker crumbs. Want half sausage, definitely try it (my wife wouldn't touch it that way or I would). I feel it's pretty solid, but about every other time I make it, I add one additional thing to give that a whirl.
I don’t glaze mine, but usually eat with more SBR bbq sauce. Daughter eats with ketchup, Wife eats plain. Son…I don’t know he eats so fast his plate is empty before I take two bites.
Other ideas:
1 stalk celery grated (IMO you can get too much pretty easy from trying it).
Green peppers
Hatch Chilies
(If you try it with something else added, comment and share how it turned out)
Ingredients:
2 lb 85% ground beef (80% works OK too, but don't even think about 93%)
1 cup quick or old fashioned oats soaked in 2/3 c milk
3/4 c finely chopped onion
1/4 c bbq sauce (usually Sweet Baby Rays Sweet n Spicy)
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 T Worcestershire (or soy sauce)
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp paprika
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together, form into loaf, bake at 350 until 160 (around an hour). I usually press it into a saran lined loaf pan, then flip it out onto a grill pan and dome it a bit to keep grease from pooling on top. I have also smoked this a couple times at 250° and it takes 2-2.5 hours and turns out well.
Feel free to make this your own, I think it's a great starting point for a oat based meatloaf versus the traditional bread or cracker crumbs. Want half sausage, definitely try it (my wife wouldn't touch it that way or I would). I feel it's pretty solid, but about every other time I make it, I add one additional thing to give that a whirl.
I don’t glaze mine, but usually eat with more SBR bbq sauce. Daughter eats with ketchup, Wife eats plain. Son…I don’t know he eats so fast his plate is empty before I take two bites.
Other ideas:
1 stalk celery grated (IMO you can get too much pretty easy from trying it).
Green peppers
Hatch Chilies
(If you try it with something else added, comment and share how it turned out)
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