Italian Meatloaf
Recipe: #5217
April 19, 2012
Categories: Meatloaf, Ground Beef, Italian, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day, Mothers Day, Oven Bake, more
"For this I do not recommend to use extra lean or lean ground beef the fat in meat is what gives the flavor if you do then add in 2 tablespoons bacon fat or olive oil to the beef mixture. Substitute your favorite barbeque sauce for the top if you like. The cooked bacon will need to minced in the food processor before adding to the mixture and you will need a mneatloaf pan with holes in the bottom to drain fat."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (301.1 g)
- Calories 582.5
- Total Fat - 29.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.8 g
- Cholesterol - 200.5 mg
- Sodium - 1278 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 22.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.2 g
- Sugars - 9.7 g
- Protein - 54.3 g
- Calcium - 98 mg
- Iron - 6.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 9.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375°F. In a large bowl, combine meatloaf ingredients adding breadcrumbs to mixture last. Using your hands mix well.
Step 2
Press meat into a meatloaf pan (the ones with the holes in the bottom to allow the fat to drain out). Brush top with ketchup then sprinkle with garlic powder, salt and pepper. Bake uncovered 1 1/2 hours. basting occasionally with additional ketchup during cooking.
Tips
No special items needed.