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The ingredients needed to make The Ultimate Guide To Meatloaf:
- Get 1 lb Meat (Beef, pork, lamb, veal, chicken, turkey, or ham. Or use a combination. It is possible to make a fantastic meatloaf with cod, scallops, or salmon.)
- Make ready 1/4 cup Fat (Butter, raw bacon, pork fat, chicken fat. If your meat is a fatty one such as sausage, consider reducing the amount of fat you add.)
- Make ready 1/4 cup Filler (Bread crumbs, cooked or uncooked rice, finely ground rolled oats, finely ground bulghur wheat)
- Take 1 egg for Binder (Substitute egg beaters or equivilant egg whites)
- Make ready 1/4 cup sauce (Ketchup, BBQ Sauce) - If you use a strong or salty sauce such as Teriyaki, Hoisin, or Worcestershire you will only need 1 Tablespoon
- Prepare To taste - Seasoning (Thyme, marjoram, paprika, chili powder, curry powder, fresh ginger, onion Powder, scallion, garlic, Montreal steak)
There are hundreds of meatloaf recipes, all united by the claim that they're the best in the world. When Googling meatloaf, the most common recipes start with a blend of beef, pork, and veal, and many grocery stores actually sell packages of "meatloaf mix" made with equal parts of each. The free form baking method uses a sheet pan with no mold, which allows more liquids to drain out of the meatloaf during cooking. The inverted loaf pan uses a standard loaf pan inverted to preserve the shape of the meatloaf but while still allowing the liquids to drain off.
Instructions to make The Ultimate Guide To Meatloaf:
- Basic Meatloaf - Use beef as your meat, butter as your fat, bread crumbs or rolled oats as your filler, ketchup as your sauce, ground marjoram as your seasoning. Mix everything preferably by hand. Pack into a loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees until done, it's beginning to brown, and the juices run clear—about 40 minutes.
- Bacon Meatloaf - Same as Basic Meatloaf substituting bacon that has been processed into a paste instead of butter. This is really incredible.
- Middle Eastern Meatloaf - Use a mixture of beef and lamb as your meat, butter as your fat, bulghur wheat as your filler, ketchup as your sauce, allspice as your seasoning. Proceed as with the Basic Meatloaf. A few pine nuts are good with this, too.
- Chicken Teriyaki Meatloaf - Use ground chicken as your meat, butter as your fat, rice as your filler, teriyaki sauce as your sauce, fresh ginger as your seasoning. A mixture of scallions and onions is good. Proceed as with the Basic Meatloaf.
- Using this method you can make BBQ pork meatloaf, South of the Border Meatloaf, Pate a Champagne, and thousands of other varieties. Experiment! - - Note!!! If you use a more fatty meat, such as Italian Sausage, reduce the amount of fat added or your meatloaf will be a greasy mess.
The free form baking method uses a sheet pan with no mold, which allows more liquids to drain out of the meatloaf during cooking. The inverted loaf pan uses a standard loaf pan inverted to preserve the shape of the meatloaf but while still allowing the liquids to drain off. Both methods are described in our Ultimate Guide To Meatloaf. Ultimate Guide to Ensure You Prepare the Best Homemade Classic Meatloaf Recipe. Use my mom's meatloaf recipe as your guide.
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