I've been meaning to post this for a while, but lately school has kept me busy to say the least!
Having good food that I can pull out of the freezer when I've had class all day is definitely a nice feeling. This recipe is one my mom fixed on several occasions while I was growing up. I pulled it out of the recipe box recently and have enjoyed being able to heat up one or two meat loaf minis at a time for dinner.
Instead of making the whole recipe, I cut it down to a third of the original by using just 1 pound of meat. Also, because the grocery store was out of Crispix cereal, I used Corn Chex. Not having onion powder, I threw in a dash of garlic powder instead too.
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| Ingredients I used included lean ground beef, Chex, ground mustard, pepper, brown sugar, an egg, onion, Worchestshire sauce, ketchup, and a dash of garlic powder. |
This is the sauce mixture; Reserve part which will become the topping
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| Add remaining ingredients except for meat and mix until combined. |
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| To this mixture, add in the ground beef. |
If using a ground beef, make sure it is very lean.
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| Press the mixture into the muffin tins. |
I'm not a huge fan of ketchup, so I went pretty easy with the sauce on top; I even left some mini meat loaves plain without sauce.
Meat Loaf Minis
•1 cup
ketchup
•3-4 Tbls
packed brown sugar
•2
eggs, beaten
•4 tsp
Worcestershire sauce
•3
cups Crispix
cereal, crushed
•3 tsp
onion powder
•½-1 tsp
seasoned salt
•½ tsp
garlic powder
•½ tsp
pepper
•3
lbs. lean ground beef or ground turkey
1. In large bowl combine ketchup, brown
sugar, and mustard. Remove ½ cup for topping and set aside.
2. Add eggs, Worcestershire sauce, cereal,
and seasoning to remaining ketchup mixture; mix well and let stand for five
minutes
3. Crumble beef; mix well with mixture.
4. Press meat in 18 muffin cups, about 1/3
cup in each.
5. Bake at 375° for
18-20 minutes.
6. Drizzle with ketchup and bake 10
more minutes.
7. Cool before eating
8. To freeze, place into
freezer bags.
9. Reheat: thaw in fridge and bake for
30 minutes or microwave on high for 1 minutes
•Can freeze for up to 3 months
•Yields 1½ dozen
