Minnesota Cooking: Almost-From-Scratch Meatloaf

Char Milbrett is a creative writer and artist from Minnesota. She enjoys sharing recipes, crafts, hobbies, and games from her home state.

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Ingredients

• 3 pounds ground beef
• 1 sweet onion, chopped
• 1 cup bell pepper, chopped from frozen
• 1 cup mushrooms, chopped from frozen
• 1/2 tsp garlic, minced, from jar
• 4 eggs, mix with ground beef
• 2 packages meatloaf seasoning, add to bread mixture
• 4 pieces oatmeal bread, chopped
• 1 package garlic and cheese croutons, chopped
• 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
• 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 cup ketchup, put on top before baking
• 1 cup milk, add to beef and eggs

Instructions

1. Chop and saute the onions, peppers, garlic, and mushrooms in butter in a frying pan until browned on medium heat.
2. Mix 4 eggs with the ground beef, then add the chopped-up bread, croutons, meatloaf-seasoning packs, and extra spices. Add the caramelized vegetables, and place them in your meatloaf pan. Bake at 375 until the meat thermometer says 160 degrees. Takes approximately 1 1/2 hours.

I chopped up a whole onion. It was a Peru. I prefer Vidalia.

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chop bread in food processor

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2 packages of Meatloaf seasoning. Add to bread crumbs

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Mix the bread with the hamburger and egg

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© 2017 Char Milbrett

Comments

Char Milbrett (author) from Minnesota on November 21, 2017:

It was tasty. Thanks for your comment, poetrymann6969!

poetryman6969 on November 21, 2017:

Looks tasty. Nice accompanying images.