Ingredients
Cooking time - 1 hour 40 minutes.
Yield: 8-10 servings.
Despite the fact that a product called “meat bread” can be bought in various grocery supermarkets, nutritionists advise giving preference to homemade food. Therefore, adherents of this diet can easily bake delicious meat bread at home. It can be served with any side dish or used for sandwiches.
In this article you will learn what meat loaf is made from and how to make meat loaf at home.
First you need to prepare all the necessary products. The main ingredient is minced meat. Usually they use mixed minced pork and beef, but you can make meat loaf from turkey or chicken. Stuffing is often used. For example, you can make meat bread with eggs, mushrooms, and vegetables. Carrots, potatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, and bell peppers are good for this. Spices are also needed, which you can choose to suit your taste. For example, take ground black or red pepper, coriander, suneli hops or curry seasoning. You can also add a few tablespoons of mustard to the minced meat.
The amount of minced meat given in this recipe makes two “loaves” of bread, so one can be made with filling and the other without. You need to start preparing meat loaf by boiling the eggs for the filling (boil 3 pieces) and preparing the vegetables. The onion must be peeled and finely chopped. Peel the potatoes and cut into several pieces.
Pour sunflower oil into a frying pan, heat it, add the onion and fry it until transparent. Soak white bread in milk or water, then squeeze out. Pass the potatoes and squeezed bread through a meat grinder and add to the minced meat. Place the fried onion there and beat in the egg.
Salt the minced meat, add spices and mix thoroughly. Then pour kefir into it and add 2 tablespoons. spoons of ketchup. Stir everything well again.
To bake minced meat loaf in the oven, it is best to use a special oblong loaf pan. If there is no such form, you can take a regular baking sheet and cover it with foil. In this case, the size of the foil must be selected so that its edges can be connected on top of the bread.
Divide the minced meat in half directly in the bowl. Place one part of the minced meat on a baking sheet and give it a rectangular shape. Cover the top with foil. Divide the second part of the minced meat in half. Place one half in a mold or on a baking sheet. Place boiled and shelled eggs closely on top.
If you are making meat bread - a recipe with mushrooms, then instead of eggs you need to place several whole mushrooms in a row. Cover the top of the filling with the remaining minced meat and cover with foil.
Meat bread should be baked at 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Then remove the pan from the oven, being careful not to get burned by the steam, unwrap the foil and grease the top of the product with the meat with the remaining ketchup.
Without wrapping the foil anymore, put the baking sheet back in the oven and bake the meat loaf for another 15-20 minutes. After this, remove the bread from the oven and let it cool. Then transfer to a plate and cut into slices.
Meat bread in the oven, the recipe with photo of which is described above, can be served with vegetables, herbs, ketchup or tomato juice.
We wish everyone bon appetit!
