Sunny's Nunya Business Meatloaf

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 to 6 servings
  • Total: 1 hr 30 min
  • Active: 15 min
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Ingredients

2 pounds ground chuck (80 percent beef, 20 percent fat)

1 1/2 cups Italian-style breadcrumbs 

One 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes 

One 11-gram packet French onion mushroom soup/dip mix 

1/4 cup finely grated (like sand baby!) Parmesan 

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, if needed

1 egg, whisked 

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Break up the beef and drop loosely in a large bowl. Sprinkle the breadcrumbs evenly over the beef.
  3. In a medium bowl, add the tomatoes, soup mix and Parmesan. Mix and mash up any large chunks of tomatoes using a potato masher. Taste and season with salt and pepper if necessary (the mix packet contains lots of seasoning, so you probably won't need to). Add the egg and stir.
  4. Pour all but 1/2 cup of the flavor base (tomato mixture) over the top of the beef. Using your less dominant hand with your fingers spread out like a pitchfork, gently mix and fold everything together, turning the bowl with your free hand, until just combined. Don't over-mix!
  5. Form the mixture into the shape of a loaf on a parchment-lined baking sheet or press gently into a meatloaf pan. Top the loaf with the remaining flavor base. Cook until the internal temperature is 155 degrees F, 50 to 65 minutes. Remove and gently cover with aluminum foil for 10 minutes to allow the ambient heat to bring it to 160 degrees F before slicing and serving.

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David Klug

My regular meatloaf recipe is very similar, without tomatoes. I used one of Sunny's suggestions for leftover meatloaf and put an egg on it. After grilling some some fresh flatbread in a skillet, I grilled a slice of meatloaf (with bacon fat, which gave an additional layer of flavor), then put that on the flatbread. I then poached a perfect microwave egg and put hat on the meatloaf, seasoned with fresh course ground pepper and flake sea salt, and garnished with chives. A delicious application of leftover meatloaf.

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