Help! Recipes for a Quick and Simple Meatloaf!

The BEST meatloaf in the world. SERIOUSLY is this one. I usually double the topping, because that is the best part!

Cottage MeatLoaf

1 1/2 - 2 lb ground beef
1/2 cup ketchup
1/3 cup tomato juice
1/2 teaspoon salt & pepper
2 eggs
3/4 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 teaspoons yellow mustard

Topping
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 teaspoon yellow mustard
5 T brown sugar

combine meatloaf mold in baking pan
combine topping & spread on top
Bake at 400 degrees for 35-45 min
drain fat & eat

You have so many good sounding recipes that I will just add one touch. My husband is the meatloaf maker at our house.
Meat, onion, garlic, egg, Worchetershire sauce, a bit of ketchup all go in the mix. He soaks a couple of slices of ww bread in a little canned milk. The main thing he does differently from any of the recipes I read is the sauce or topping. He uses a large can of tomatoes to which he adds ketchup and Worchestershire. He waits until the meatloaf begins to brown and then addes this sauce. He always makes more than is needed and puts the extra in a bowl to go on the mashed potatoes he makes to go with the meatloaf. Any of the following round out our meal: fresh green beans, peas and carrots, steamed cabbage.

If you have any onion soup mix, they have a recipes on the back of the box that I always use, and I throw cheese in the middle so it melts as baking. You can also find it on the Lipton website.

Here is our favorite recipe and my husband loves meatloaf. It only has a few ingredients and is really easy to make. Good luck and have a great dinner.

NO-FUSS MEATLOAF
2 eggs
½ cup water
1 package (6 ounces) instant stuffing mix
2 pounds ground beef (80/20)
Ketchup

In a large bowl, beat eggs and water. Add stuffing mix and contents of seasoning packet (if there is one); mix well. Add beef; mix well. Press into ungreased 9x5x3 loaf pan (or any pan will do). Top with ketchup. Bake, uncovered, at 350 for 1 ¼ - 1 ½ hours or until no pink remains and a meat thermometer reads 160.

Hope this helps, it's late after your request, but, it's quick and very tasty.

Ground beef, to your need
1/2 green bell pepper
1/2 red bell pepper
1/4 sm. onion
2 tblspns garlic powder
2 tblspns onion powder
pinch of salt
pinch of pepper
3 tblspns ketchup
1/2 cup italian bread crumbs
sprinkle of italian seasoning
sprinkle of chopped basil
NO EGG NEEDED

dice all veggies, finely, mix all ingredients in a large bowl using a washed clean or gloved hand to mix thoroughly kneading as though your were making bread

place in pan, metal or glass with just a little water to avoid sticking.
place in oven, set at 350 degrees
let bake for at least 20-30 minutes uncovered or until done.

tips, do look in on meatloaf to pour off some of the oils that build up as the meatloaf cooks.

believe it or not, my sister uses Ketchup for topping the meatloaf, cover entirely and bake for a few more minutes until ketchup turns dark red.

drain excess fat from pan and just enjoy.

I am a southern cook, but I have learned through the years that when giving off a recipe, I need to know how much of what is needed, If you don't have time to measure, just add what you think. This works for me.

I thought that if you had this for future use, you could hear her holler, "Damn that was good."

Jennifer H comes the closest to meeting the Family Food Experts standards for meatloaf recipes. Jennifer, if you read this, would you please contact me (____@____.com) as we may want to use your recipe in the new book which will include LOTS of recipes. The only question we have about your recipe is the absence of eggs - unless allergies are an issue. This recipe not too high in sodium, has no artificial flavors and colors, includes vegetables and seems well seasoned - not boring bland. Kids love flavors. So bravo to you, Jennifer. Moms who are reading my response, try this recipe! My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

E. B

This is how I always make mine. Throw in an egg, crumble up some crackers, or add some dry oats, cut up some onion, green peppers if you like and add some ketchup. Put extra ketcup on top and put in the oven 350 until it looks done. very easy!

hope this helps!
T.

This is my mom's famous microwave meatloaf- it's been my favorite since I was little. I never even knew she made it in the microwave until I got married and she told me her secret! lol Here it is:
1 1/2 lbs ground beef
1 egg
1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs
1/3 cup chopped onion
2 TBL milk
1/3 cup ketchup
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp garlic salt
~ combine all ingredients. Shape mixture into loaf and place in oblong baking dish or corning ware. Cover with waxed paper. Microwave Medium High 10-12 minutes. Drain fat and recover. Heat on Medium High for additional 10-12 minutes. Let stand 5- 10 minutes.

Good luck!

Hello Noelia,
I hope you were able to put something together with the help from these other moms, but I wanted to share my meatloaf advice as well! I bought a meatloaf pan from QVC that has holes in the bottom and a drain pan underneath (Cooks Essentials is the brand). I use a McCormick meatloaf seasoning packet and follow the recipe on it. I also add an onion and worcestershire sauce to the recipe. I think the A-1 suggestion would be good too. My family loves it and I've made it to give to other families and they've commented that they liked it too. So, now you have plenty of recipes to try! I think I will try some of these as well. Hope your meal was a success!

THe recipe on the back of the Lipton onion soup mix is delicious..
Good Luck

My family's favorite meatloaf is a 3 meat mixture. It is very good!!

2 cups breadcrumbs (fresh are always the best :) )
1 onion, chopped fine
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 pound ground beef
2/3 ground veal
1/3 ground pork
3/4 cup milk or red wine ( I always use milk but the wine
sounds great!!)
2 TBSP worchester sauce
1 1/2 TSP dry mustard (Coleman's)
1 1/2 TSP salt
1/2 TSP pepper

Mix together and put into buttered loaf pan. I have a small family and divide the mixture into 3 pans. Bake for one hour at 350 degrees.

Hope you like it!

Noelia,

I don't use ground beef. I use ground turkey, once cooked you can't tell the difference and it is much healthier for you. Here is the way I make it and my family gobbles it up and I can't keep it coming fast enough and it is so easy anybody can make it. Four ingredients and you are done:

1 to 1 1/2 pounds of ground turkey
1 cup bread cups (seasoned or unseasoned your choice)
1/3 cup thick and hearty A-1 steak sauce
1 egg

preheat oven to 375, combine all the ingredients, place the meat into a large 9 X 12 glass cake pan, shape into loaf, and cook for 45 - 50 minutes or until done. Before I start cooking I place a nice coat of the steak sauce on top of the loaf to form a crust.

By the time it is ready my two youngest boys who are very picky eaters have devoured 2 slices each and my husband can't seem to get enough of it either.

Good luck.

S.
35 y/o SAHM of 3 boys
14, 6 and 3

i use one pound hamburger meat
1/2 roll of breakfast sausage (like tennessee pride or jimmy dean)
about 3 slices of regular bread pinched up in it
some saltine crackers
2 raw eggs
1 can of tomatoes sauce
1 onions chopped (or instead of onion i have used onion soup mix)
salt and pepper to taste

i mix everything together EXCEPT half the tomatoe sauce. bake in over on 375. when it is done. i take the other half of tomatoe sauce and add some pancake syrup or honey to it. then pour it over top the meatloaf and put oven on broil a few minutes.and take out.and serve with mash potaotes, green beans or corn.

Here's what I use-- I don't measure- I just throw in what looks right..

Obviously ground beef, then I add sausage (the kind in the big tube that's uncooked), bread crumbs, and BBQ sauce, and mix in an egg.

I found an awesome website that may help you because you type in what you have on hand and it gives you recipe ideas to make with what you have www.RecipeMatcher.com

Good luck... and milk it that he OWES you for popping this on you at the last minute!!!

hey Noelia, my recipe is onions 1 large egg and 2 pieces of bread that you run under water and squeeze out and then seperate into the meatloaf and some pepper and mix that all togetehr and put in the oven at 350 for an hour or until done with ketchup on top and wallah meatloaf, I hope this helps, let us know how dinner turned out!!!
S. mom to 5 beautiful Children 17yrs,9yrs,7yrs,3yrs and 15 months old check out my sons journey at www.liamlockhart.com

Hi Noelia,

I use the recipe off the back of the Lipton Onion Soup box. It is very simple and tastes great! I have 3 young children that love it. Good luck!

Happy Holidays!
W.

for future, not sure if anyone gave you this tip, but if you are in a rush, make "little meatloaves" and they cook much faster :)
each one about the size of your hand, about 9 in a standard 9x11 pyrex.
Bigger than meatballs, smaller than a large loaf, the little meatloaves retain more moisture and each person has their own
:)

You've got a kazillion recipes... so just a little time saving advice. Whenever I make meatloaf I mix LOTS of it and then put it in freezer bags and freeze the raw, seasoned meat mixture so that for furture, easy dinners all you have to do is thaw and bake.
It is SO true what the other momma said about little loaves. They cook much quicker.
Another time saver: instead of using an actual loaf pan, just shape the meat into a loaf on a cookie sheet. You can make it less tall this way (spread it out more and make it about 3 inches deep, and this cooks quicker too. Plus, all the grease runs off to the sides where you can drain it every now and then and not have so much grease trapped in like you do when you use a regular (bread) loaf pan.

I do this same, mass meat preparation when I make enchilada filling, homemade spaghetti sauce with meat, etc. If you're going to have a slow cooker going all day, might as well make enough to freeze and have another night! Good luck!