Roger’s Meaty Loaf
(from Dirkdigler’s recipe box)
Like my meaty balls, oh so juicy
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Serves 8 people
Categories: Comfort food
Ingredients
- 3 Ice cold beers
- 1/3 C Bread crumbs unseasoned
- 1/2 C Whole Milk - Even better homemade buttermilk. Yeah be fancy
- 2 tbls EVOO
- 1 Medium onion, yellow, white, Vidalia, It don't much matter
- 2 lb ground beef 80 or 85%
- 2 eggs large
- 1/4 bunch parsley chopped fine
- 3 cloves garlic - minced
- 2 tsp kosher salt or sea salt more if using pink salt
- 1 tsp ground mixed or black pepper
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes or more if you hate your butt hole
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 2 tbls fresh grated parmesan cheese. Really, buy a brick. Don't use the bottled crap.
- For the glaze
- 1/2 C Ketchup. The good stuff. Like Heinz or Hunts all natural or at lease without corn syrup.
- 2 tbls brown sugar
- 1 tbls Worcestershire sauce
- Mix this together
Directions
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- Open beer 1 – Drink half reserve remaining half
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Take meat out of fridge and let it warm up a bit.
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Soak the bread crumbs in the milk for about 20 mins. Stir while pouring in the milk. Not too much to make mush though.
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- Heat EVOO 2 tbls over medium high heat
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- Drink remaining beer. Open second
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- Cook the onions until translucent. You’re trying to get the liquid out here so cook em, but don’t caramelize.
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- Have some more beer
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- Mix beef in bowl until combined and fat is emulsified. This is why we warmed it up a bit.
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- Mix in remaining ingredients until combined
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sh hands and drink the rest of beer 2. Open beer 3.
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- Cover the meat mixture and place in a fridge for 1 hr.
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- If you’re not done with beer 3 by now, try harder.
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- Using wet hands. Just moist we aren’t throwing water around here. Shape into a loaf or two.
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- Place into buttered loaf pans
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- Cook at 350F until cooked to 155F or be fancy and put indirect on a weber kettle with cherry wood on lump charcoal.
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- Once at 155F pull and add glaze
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- Raise temp to around 400F and cook to an internal temp of 160F
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Pull and let it rest covered in foil but tented. You don’t want to ruin that crusty tasty glaze after all.
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After 10-15 min cut in to slices and serve.