anyone have a great real Amercan meatloaf recipe please?

Question

one which uses tomato ketchup and brown sugar as a coating

Answer 1

"All-American Meatloaf

Serves 6
Be careful not to overknead the meatloaf ingredients; doing so will result in a heavy and dense loaf.


3 slices white bread

1 large carrot, cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds

1 rib celery, strings peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

1/2 medium yellow onion, roughly chopped

2 cloves garlic, smashed and peeled

1/2 cup fresh flat-leaf parsleyleaves, loosely packed

1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons ketchup

4 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard

8 ounces ground pork

8 ounces ground veal

8 ounces ground round

2 large eggs, beaten

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

1 teaspoon Tabasco Sauce, or to taste

1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary, plus more needles for sprinkling

2 tablespoons dark-brown sugar

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 small red onion, cut into 1/4 inch-thick rings

1. Preheat oven to 400°. Remove crusts from bread, and place slices in the bowl of a food processor. Process until fine crumbs form, about 10 seconds. Transfer breadcrumbs to a large mixing bowl. Do not substitute dried breadcrumbs in this step, as they will make your meatloaf rubbery.

2. Place carrot, celery, yellow onion, garlic, and parsley in the bowl of the food processor. Process until vegetables have been minced, about 30 seconds, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl once or twice. (Chopping vegetables this way saves time and ensures that vegetables will be small enough to cook through and not be crunchy). Transfer vegetables to bowl with the breadcrumbs.

3. Add 1/2 cup ketchup, 2 teaspoons dry mustard, pork, veal, beef, eggs, salt, pepper, Tabasco, and rosemary. Using your hands, knead the ingredients until thoroughly combined, about 1 minute. The texture should be wet, but tight enough to hold a free-form shape.

4. Set a wire baking rack into an 11-by-17-inch baking pan. Cut a 5-by-11-inch piece of parchment paper, and place over center of rack to prevent meat loaf from falling through. Using your hands, form an elongated loaf covering the parchment.

5. Place the remaining 3 tablespoons ketchup, remaining 2 1/2 teaspoons mustard, and brown sugar in a bowl. Mix until smooth. Using a pastry brush, generously brush the glaze over loaf. Place oil in a medium saucepan set over high heat. When oil is smoking, add red onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft and golden in places. Add 3 tablespoons water, and cook, stirring, until most of the water has evaporated. Transfer onion to a bowl to cool slightly, then sprinkle onion over the meatloaf.

6. Bake 30 minutes, then sprinkle rosemary needles on top. Continue baking loaf until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of the loaf registers 160°, about 25 minutes more. Let meatloaf cool on rack, 15 minutes."

got this from http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=recipe1481

OR YOU CAN TRY THIS RECIPE

"Meatloaf with Brown Sugar-Ketchup Glaze
Contributed by: teridavis
The perfect recipe cookbook


Ingredients
Glaze
1/2 c Ketchup or chili sauce
4 t Brown sugar
4 tsp Cider vinegar
Meatloaf
2 tsp Vegetable oil
1 Medium onion,chopped
2 Garlic cloves, minced
2 Large eggs
1 tsp Dried thyme leaves
1 tsp Salt
½ tsp Ground black pepper
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
¼ tsp Hot red pepper sauce
½ c Milk, buttermilk or low-fat plain yogurt
2 lb Meat mix (ground chuck, ground turkey, ground pork…whatever you like)
2/3 cup Crushed saline crackers or quick oatmeal (or 1 1/3 cup fresh bread crumbs)
1/3 cup Minced fresh parsley leaves

Preparation
. Glaze: mix all ingredients in small bowel; set aside


2. Meatloaf: Preheat oven to 350°F. Heat oil in medium skillet. add onion and garlic, suate until softened, about 5 minutes; set aside to cool.


3. Mix eggs with thyme, salt, pepper, mustard, Worcestershire, pepper sauce, and milk or yogurt. Add egg mixture to meat in a large bowl,along with cracker/bread selection, parsley and cooked onions and garlic; mix with fort until evenly blended nad milk mixture does not stick to bowl. (If mixture does stick, add additional milk, a couple of tablespoons at a time, and continue stirring until mixture stops sticking.)


4. Turn meat mixture into a loaf pan (preferably one with a perforated bottom and drip pan). Use a fork to pull mixture away from pan sides. brush mixture with half the glaze. Bake until glaze is set (about 45 minutes). Brush with remaining glaze and continue to bake until second coat has set and loaf registers 160°F, about 15 minutes longer."

got this from http://www.mealsmatter.org/recipes-meals/recipe/13630

Answer 2

All-American Meatloaf Recipe.


2 lb Grd chuck or sirloin
3/4 c Oatmeal
1 ea Onion,chopped
1/2 c Catsup
1/4 c Milk
2 x Eggs
1 tb Horseradish
1 ts Salt
1/4 ts Pepper
1/2 c Catsup
3 tb B. sugar
2 ts Mustard(prepared)


Recipe Instructions:
Combine first 9 ingredients; shape into two 7 1/2x4" loaves.
Place on a lightly greased rack of a broiler pan; bake at 350 deg for 40 min.
Combine 1/2 c catsup, 1 T horseradish & remaining ingredients; spoon over meatloaf & bake an additional 5 min.
Yields 2 loaves.
NOTE May freeze the second loaf.

Answer 3

Dad's Meatloaf with Tomato Relish
Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence


Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
User Rating:


Tomato Relish:
Extra-virgin olive oil
1 onion, finely diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 bay leaves
2 red bell peppers, cored, seeded, and finely diced
2 tomatoes, halved, seeded, and finely diced
1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 (12-ounce) bottle ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Meatloaf:
3 slices white bread, crusts removed, torn into chunks by hand
1/4 cup whole milk
11/2 pounds ground beef
1 pound ground pork
3 eggs
Leaves from 2 fresh thyme sprigs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 to 4 bacon slices
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Coat a skillet with a 2-count of oil and place over medium heat. Saute the onion, garlic, and bay leaves for a few minutes to create a base flavor. Throw in the red peppers and cook them for a couple of minutes to soften. Now add the tomatoes; adding them at this point lets them hold their shape and prevents them from disintegrating. Stir in the parsley, ketchup, and Worcestershire; season with salt and pepper. Simmer the relish for 5 minutes to pull all the flavors together. Remove it from the heat; you should have about 4 cups of relish.
Place the torn white bread in a bowl and add the milk to just barely cover, swish the bread around in the milk and let it sit while you get the rest of the ingredients for the meat loaf together.
This is where you get your hands dirty! In a large mixing bowl, combine the ground beef and pork with 1 1/2 cups of the tomato relish, the eggs, and thyme; season with salt and pepper. Squeeze the excess milk from the bread and add the soaked bread to the meat mixture. To test, fry a small "hamburger" patty of the meatloaf until cooked; the patty should hold together but still have a soft consistency. Taste the patty for seasoning.
Lightly oil a cookie sheet. Transfer the meat mixture to the center of the cookie sheet and form into a log about 9 inches long and about 4 inches wide. Coat the top of the meatloaf with another 1/2 cup of the tomato relish. Lay the bacon across the top lengthwise.
Bake the meatloaf for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until the bacon is crisp and the meatloaf is firm. Rotate the meat loaf while it's baking every now and then to insure that the bacon browns evenly. Remove the meatloaf from the oven and let it cool a bit before slicing. Serve with the remaining tomato relish on the side. Unbelievably moist!

Answer 4

Chop up 2 cans of spam.
Coat with Ketchup and Brown Sugar

Answer 5

What my family has always done is use the ketchup, mustard, onion, cracker/bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, 2 eggs ground beef or ground turkey . You mix that all together. Then you put that in your loaf pan as the coating you can use your ketchup and brown sugar mix.

Answer 6

I use Lipton Onion Soup mix in my ground beef with ketchup. It comes out pretty good.

Answer 7

we shredd carrot, potato, ketcup and onion soup mix into the burger... no need for brown sugar..no coating on top. it's overpowering, and some don't care for it

Answer 8

A loaf with meat.