Easiest Way to Cook Perfect Old Fashioned Meatloaf

Old Fashioned Meatloaf.

You can cook Old Fashioned Meatloaf using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Meatloaf

1. Prepare 1 of onion chopped.
2. Prepare 1 of carrot chopped fine.
3. It's 2 cloves of garlic minced.
4. You need 2 tbsp of butter or olive oil.
5. You need 2 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1 1/2 tsp of freshly ground black pepper.
7. You need 2 tsp of Worcestershire sauce.
8. It's 1/3 cup of ketchup.
9. Prepare 2 lb of ground beef.
10. You need 1 1/2 cup of fresh dry Italian bread crumbs.
11. You need 1 1/2 cup of milk.
12. You need 2 of eggs slightly beaten.
13. It's 1/3 cup of minced fresh parsley.
14. Prepare 1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese.

Old Fashioned Meatloaf step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit.
2. In a large skillet cook the onion, garlic, and carrot in the olive oil until soft..
3. Stir in salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and 1/3 cup ketchup and cook, stirring about 1 minute. Remove from heat and let cool..
4. In a medium bowl combine well the bread crumbs, and milk. Let stand for 10-15 minutes until all the milk is absorbed. Squeeze out the excess milk after is been absorbed and discard the milk.
5. In a large bowl combine the meat, the bread crumb mush, the cooked veggies, the beaten eggs, the Parmesan cheese and the parsley until well combined..
6. In a shallow baking pan form the mixture into a 10x5 inch oval loaf. For the top I mix 2 tablespoons of yellow mustard and 2 tablespoons of ketchup in a small bowl and spread that over the top..
7. Bake the meatloaf in oven 1 hour or until a meat thermometer inserted in center registers 155 Fahrenheit.