Thursday, November 26, 2009

Upside-Down Meat Loaf

This recipe comes from the book Saving Dinner by Leanne Ely. I checked it out from the library and chose 3 recipes from it this week. Unfortunately, 2 of the 3 turned out worse than I would have liked but not really because they were bad recipes. I actually like the concept of the book. The recipes seem easy, there are a lot of them, and she recommends sides for each main dish. The organization of the book is not my favorite because I don't plan to follow her full week plan, but the ideas are good and quite simple.
I really liked the sauce on the top of the upside down meatloaf, but I had pre-chopped an onion and it ended up being super strong and taking over the whole meatloaf. I want to try this again with a freshly chopped onion to see what it really tastes like. I've not made a meatloaf with buttermilk and oats before, so I really want to try this another time.

Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 1 1/2 lbs extra lean ground beef
  • 1 3/4 cups oats
  • 3/4 cups buttermilk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1/4 teaspoon ginger
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease a 5 X 9 inch loaf pan.
On the bottom of the pan, press brown sugar, then spread the ketchup over the sugar.
Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Make a loaf out of mixture and place it carefully on top of the sugar/ketchup mixture in the loaf pan.
Bake for 45 minutes to an hour or until juice runs clear.

Mine took a good hour and 15 maybe longer to be done. I think that is because the onions were cold - everything was very cold. Who knows. It was just a bad meatloaf day. Next time I will definitely use a fresh onion and possibly saute it first.

3 comments:

  1. Second ingredient is 1/2 cup of ketchup.... It says sugar.....I own this cookbook, but am too lazy to walk out to my car to get it....can't wait to check out your other recipes!

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  2. Thanks. I fixed it. I actually own this book now too so I went and double checked.

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  3. This recipe is wonderful using Ground Turkey in place of the beef! My kids all time favorite meatloaf. I have to double the recipe! They love it that much.

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