Gourmet Meatloaf
photo by Eleventhletter
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1360.77 g ground beef (80/20)
- 236.59 ml fresh basil, chopped
- 2 tomatoes, chopped
- 453.59 g bacon, chopped into one inch pieces
- 2 large yellow onions
- 177.44 ml panko breadcrumbs
- 2 eggs
- salt and pepper
- olive oil (for frying)
- parmesan cheese
-
TOPPING
- 1 onion, sliced
- 4 slice bacon, chopped in one pieces
-
GRAVY
- 59.14 ml flour
- 236.59 ml water
- 236.59 ml milk
directions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Chop 2 onions and and 1 lb of the bacon in a large pan and a little olive oil. Cook the bacon and onions until the bacon is crisp.
- Chop up the tomatoes and put to the side.
- Chop up the basil. I rolled and cut into small ribbons.
- Drain onions and bacon but save the liquid to use as gravy.
- With a spoon mix the meat, basil, tomatoes, eggs, cooked bacon, and cooked onion, and bread crumbs in a large bowl. Adding salt and pepper to taste.
- Fill a 9"x13" baking pan with the meatloaf mixture. Then I sprinkled some parmesan cheese and panko bread crumbs on top adnd bake for 35 minutes, until the meat is brown all the way through.
- Then take the other half onion and slice and fry with bacon until crispy.
- Remove from the pan, leaving the grease and adding the grease saved previously, should be about 1/4 cup.
- Gradually add the flour mixing together well.
- Add water gradually and then milk.
- Add salt and pepper to taste, cooking to desired thickness.
- I served a square of meatloaf with a scoop of mashed potatoes and then some of the fried onions and then some gravy.
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