Southern sweet and sour meatloaf recipe

Southern sweet and sour meatloaf recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 cup dry bread crumbs
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 2 large eggs, gently beaten
  • 1-1/2 pounds hamburger
  • 1 teaspoon dried minced onion
  • 1 can (15 ounces) tomato sauce, divided
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • two tablespoons brown sugar
  • two tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons prepared mustard

Dietary Details

1 slice: 419 calories, 17g fat (6g saturated fats), 146mg cholesterol, 969mg sodium, 38g carb (23g sugars, 1g fiber), 28g protein.

Directions

  1. Inside a large bowl, combine the bread crumbs, salt, pepper and eggs crumble beef over top and blend well. Add onion and 1 / 2 of the tomato sauce. Press right into a 9x5-in. loaf pan.
  2. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. Inside a saucepan, combine the sugars, vinegar, mustard and remaining tomato sauce provide a boil. Pour over meat loaf bake ten minutes longer or until no pink remains along with a thermometer reads 160.
  3. Freeze option: Safely wrap and freeze cooled meat loaf in plastic wrap and foil. To make use of, partly thaw in refrigerator overnight. Unwrap meat loaf reheat on the greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan inside a preheated 350 oven until heated through along with a thermometer placed in center reads 165. Yield: 6 servings.

Initially printed as Sweet and Sour Meat Loaf in Reminisce March/April 1991, p37

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