Best-Ever Meatloaf
"This recipe is from my cookbook, True Southern Family Recipes, currently out-of-print. Even people who don't like meatloaf like this recipe."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
2 loaves
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 2 lbs ground venison
- 1 1⁄2 cups tomato-based barbecue sauce
- 1 1 teaspoon seasoning salt or 1 teaspoon sodium-free seasoning
- 1 1⁄4 cups quick oatmeal (not instant)
- 3 tablespoons minced onions
- 1 1/4 cup Egg Beaters egg substitute or 1/4 cup egg substitute
- 1 tablespoon wheat germ (for Vitamin E only) (optional)
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds (for nutritional value only) (optional)
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TOPPING
- 1⁄2 cup bull eye barbecue sauce
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray glass or metal baking pan with non-stick baking spray.
- Place all ingredients, except venison, in large bowl and mix well.
- Add the venison and mix well.
- Form into two loaves and place them in baking dish.
- With your fingers or handle of wooden spoon, make about 10-12 holes in top of meatloaf.
- Pour the sauce over the top of meatloaf, letting some sauce run into the holes and a little run down the side of the meat loaf.
- Bake uncovered for 1 hour or until meat is browned on the outside.
- Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.
- This is equally good made with lean ground beef.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
BeachGirl
Edisto Island, South Carolina
I am a retired computer programmer, teacher, and cookbook author. Hubby and I have a grown daughter & SIL, son & DIL and 2 grandgirls. My favorite hobbies: cooking, Silhouette crafting, sewing, embroidery and wearable art, quilting, genealogy research, reading,
