Ingredients

• minced meat - 1 kg;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• potatoes - 1-2 pcs.;
• white bread - 3 slices;
• eggs - 4 pcs. (1 - in minced meat, 3 - in the filling);
• milk (water) - 100 ml;
• kefir - 80 ml;
• ketchup - 4 table. spoons;
• refined sunflower oil - 3 table. spoons;
• salt;
• spices.

Cooking time - 1 hour 40 minutes.

Yield - 8-10 servings.

Despite the fact that a product called "meat loaf" can be bought at various grocery supermarkets, nutritionists advise giving preference to homemade food. Therefore, adherents of such a diet can easily bake delicious meat bread at home. It can be served with any side dish or used for sandwiches.

In this article, you will learn what meatloaf is made of and how to make meatloaf at home.

How to cook meatloaf in the oven - a recipe with a photo step by step

First you need to prepare all the necessary products. The main ingredient is minced meat. Usually they take mixed minced pork and beef, but you can make meatloaf from turkey or chicken. Filling is often used. For example, you can make meatloaf with eggs, mushrooms, vegetables. Carrots, potatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, bell peppers are well suited for this. Spices are also needed, which you can choose to your taste. For example, take ground black or red pepper, coriander, suneli hops or curry seasoning. You can also add a few tablespoons of mustard to the minced meat.

The amount of minced meat given in this recipe makes two "loaves" of bread, so one can be made with filling and the other without. You need to start cooking meat loaf by boiling eggs for the filling (boil 3 pcs.) And preparing vegetables. The onion should be peeled and finely chopped. Peel the potatoes and cut into several pieces.

Pour sunflower oil into a frying pan, heat it, put the onion and fry it until transparent. Soak white bread in milk or water, then squeeze. Pass potatoes and squeezed bread through a meat grinder and add to minced meat. Put the fried onion there and beat in the egg.

Salt minced meat, add spices and mix thoroughly. Then pour kefir into it and add 2 tables. ketchup spoons. Once again, mix everything well.

To bake minced meat loaf in the oven, it is best to use a special oblong loaf pan. If there is no such form, you can take a regular baking sheet and cover it with foil. In this case, the size of the foil must be chosen so that its edges can be connected from above above the bread.

Divide the minced meat in half in the bowl. Put one part of minced meat on a baking sheet and give it a rectangular shape. Top it off with foil. Divide the second part of minced meat in half. Place one half on a baking sheet or dish. Lay hard-boiled and peeled eggs on top.

If you are making meatloaf - a recipe with mushrooms, then instead of eggs, you need to lay several whole mushrooms in a row. Top the filling with the remaining stuffing and cover with foil.

Bake meat bread at a temperature of 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Then remove the baking sheet from the oven, carefully so as not to burn yourself with steam, unfold the foil and grease the top of the product with meat with the remaining ketchup.

No more wrapping the foil, put the baking sheet back in the oven and bake the meatloaf for another 15-20 minutes. Then take the bread out of the oven and let it cool down. Then transfer to a dish and cut into slices.

Meat bread in the oven, the recipe with the photo of which is described above, can be served with vegetables, herbs, ketchup or tomato juice.

We wish you all bon appetit!