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Classic Beef Meatloaf Recipe

Nida Shahrukh
Classic Beef moist homemade Meatloaf Recipe makes your table more special. This meatloaf is softer, juicy, tender, and moist inside out with a sweet and tangy sauce that glazes the meatloaf and adds so many flavors for its eaters.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Course : Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 8 servings
Calories 344 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg Ground Beef     (1 ibn or 2 pounds) (lean or leaner)
  • ½ medium size Onion (diced & minced)
  • 2 tsp Garlic (chopped & minced)    
  • 1 tsp Unsalted Butter
  • 2 Eggs
  • ¾ cup Milk
  • ¾ cup Breadcrumbs     (Italian/Seasonal/AnyVariety)
  • 1 tbsp Ketchup/Chili Sauce
  • 1 tsp Italian Seasoning
  • 2 tbsp Parsley 2 (fresh & chopped)
  • Salt (as required)
  • Black Pepper (as required)
  • ½ tsp Ground Paprika

Meatloaf Sauce

  • ½ cup Ketchup
  • 1 ½ tsp White Vinegar
  • 1 tsp Garlic Powder
  • ½ tsp Onion Powder
  • ¼ tsp Black Pepper tsp (ground)
  • ½ cup Chili Sauce
  • 2 tbsp Brown Sugar (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Take a baking tray, spray a foil lined tray with some cooking spray and set aside.
  • Take a small pan, melt unsalted butter on medium-low heat. Now let the onion and garlic paste cook until getting tender. Set aside and let it cool completely.
  • Take a medium-size bowl, combine all eggs, milk, and breadcrumbs and let the mixture sit for 5-10 minutes.
  • Add the ground beef, onion, ketchup/chili sauce, Italian seasoning, black pepper, salt, ground paprika, and parsley to taste. Just give a good mix until all ingredients get combined well.
  • Gently meat to the sprayed loaf pan, press the meat down and shape evenly and bake meatloaf at 350°F for almost 30 minutes.
  • Take another small bowl, mix all ingredients (mentioned in the meatloaf sauce section) for the sauce. Now spread the sauce over the meatloaf then return to the oven and bake additional for15-20 more minutes.
  • Now when meatloaf gets baked completely, allow it to rest for 10 minutes before slicing.
  • Drizzle and enjoy the slice with baking juice from the pan.

Notes

  • To make more juicy, simply add 1 tbsp mustard paste to the meatloaf sauce.
  • If you have short time to make ready the dish, simply skip onion fry into butter and directly add into meatloaf ingredients. But this may cause strong onion smell and taste and also not get tender and soften as compared to above mention method.
  • Make sure to not over mixed the ingredients of meatloaf or start making more juice and unable to bake properly.
  • Make sure to use only lean or leaner meat without making it greasy.
  • Don’t forget to soak breadcrumbs into milk and egg. Also don’t skip the seasoning to get perfect and juicy flavour of every bit of meatloaf.
  • Loaf tray/baking sheet/foil whatever you have, can be goes perfectly in baking process to bake properly.
  • Let the baked meatloaf to cool it down completely or else it make disturbance in cutting the slices.
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