May 12, 2010

Magnificent Meat Loaf

bell peppers, Ground Beef, main dish, Pork

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34 ratings

Prep time: 24 minutes
baking time 1 hour
Servings: 6
Partner: Potatoes Romanoff

‘Your grandmother’s meat loaf is the best there is,’ Grandpa always said, and I believe he was right.

Ingredients

8 ounces each ground sirloin and ground veal
4 ounces ground pork
1 cup bread crumbs
3/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons each ketchup and A.1. steak sauce, divided
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley
1/4 cup chopped celery
2 tablespoons each grated Parmesan cheese and prepared mustard
1 large egg
1/4 teaspoon each salt and black pepper

Directions

1

Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
2

Combine ground sirloin, ground veal and ground pork in a large bowl and mix well.
3

Add the bread crumbs, bell pepper, 2 tablespoons ketchup, 2 tablespoons steak sauce, onion, parsley, celery, Parmesan, mustard, egg, salt and black pepper to ground sirloin mixture and mix well. Shape into a loaf. Place in a nonstick 9 × 5-inch loaf pan.
4

Combine remaining ketchup and steak sauce in a small bowl and mix well. Spread on top of the meat loaf.
5

Bake meat loaf for 1 hour. Let stand to cool for 15 minutes before serving.

Grandma's Secret Trick

To stretch the last piece of meat loaf to feed the family, Grandma peeled, chopped and boiled 2 or 3 medium potatoes until tender. Then she sautéed a chopped onion in butter in a skillet until golden. She added the potatoes and the crumbled meat loaf to the skillet and cooked the mixture, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes developed a golden crust.