MENU DESCRIPTION: “Our own special recipe made with fresh ground chuck pork, mild onions, green peppers
and more. Served with mashed potatoes, brown gravy and garlic toast.” Here’s a great meatloaf recipe to add to your mealtime repertoire. This luscious loaf combines ground chuck with ground pork along with breadcrumbs, green onion, garlic, carrot and green pepper for one of the best flavor experiences you’ll get from a good old-fashioned American loaf of meat. Use a perforated nesting meatloaf pan if you’ve got one so that the fat drains out into the pan below. If you don’t have one of those a regular loaf pan will still work fine. But use a large one. This recipe makes a pretty big beefy slab of goodness.

SERVES 8

INGREDIENTS

• 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 1 green onion, minced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons minced green bell pepper
• 2 tablespoons grated carrot
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons salt
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• 1 ½ pounds ground chuck
• ¾ pound ground pork
• 1 cup breadcrumbs (such as Progresso)
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup ketchup plus an additional ¼ cup ketchup (for top)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Saute green onion, garlic, green pepper, and carrot in vegetable oil over medium heat for a couple minutes.
3. Combine beaten eggs with milk, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder in a medium bowl.
4. In a large bowl, mix breadcrumbs and flour into ground chuck and ground pork with your hands. Add egg and milk mixture, sautéed veggies, ¼ cup ketchup and mix it up using your hands.
5. Press the mixture into a meatloaf pan (the kind of pan with drainage holes in the bottom) or a large loaf pan.
6. Bake for 30 minutes, then spread ¼ cup of ketchup over the top of the meatloaf and bake it for another hour.
7. Let it sit for a bit after you remove it from the oven before you slice it to serve.