First day of October! Autumn's definitely here, yay! Comfort food season...
It's been a very long while since I posted a recipe on here! But I recently remembered about, and then made, a childhood favourite of mine - my mum's meatloaf.
She doesn't use a recipe, and it's super simple and quick to prepare, it literally just takes a few minutes. I got six portions out of the following:
Ingredients:
- 500g lean minced beef
- Half a packet sage and onion stuffing mix
- One tin chopped tomatoes
- Two beef Oxo cubes or rough equivalent
Method:
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees C
- Put the minced beef in a bowl and break it up with a spoon or fork
- Add the other ingredients, crumbling the stock cubes in
- Mix well, adding about half a tin of water as well, until thoroughly combined
- Transfer mixture from bowl to a prepared tin, either a loaf tin or a square cake tin
- Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, till cooked through
I don't have a loaf tin (well I do but it's in storage) so used my loose-bottomed square cake tin, and lined it with baking/parchment/greaseproof paper/whatever that stuff is (I don't know the difference between them, if there is one). I had to let the meatloaf cool a bit before lifting it out of the tin to cool completely, otherwise it probably would have collapsed, but once cool it was solid and could be cut. Although obviously if you're just going to be eating it hot straightaway for dinner, it doesn't really matter too much if it collapses!
As I said, it's not exact. You'll probably need to adjust the amounts of things, even the baking time and temperature, till you get a taste and consistency you're happy with. But it's super quick and easy to make and very yummy! Growing up we used to have it for dinner with chips and peas and sweetcorn, but it's equally good cold for lunch with some salad. Let me know what you think if you give it a go!
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| Cold meatloaf with salad |