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Tomato-glazed meatloaves with Mashed Potatoes
by Deb Perelman from The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
Serves 6
From The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, this meatloaf recipe is glazed with a tomato sauce for extra flavour. Serve on a luxurious bed of creamy mashed potato.
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Introduction
Well, no. No, I had not. From that point on, it became my personal mission to retract my hasty remarks by finding meatloaf nirvana, especially once I realized that meatloaves were like meatballs with even more flavor. My version is busy with everything – a fine mirepoix, garlic, smoked paprika, piercing Dijon mustard, steak sauce, and a tangy tomato glaze – but I still couldn’t get past the typical loglike meatloaf shape. So I decided not to. These little meatloaves masquerading as big meatballs fool nobody except maybe the meatloafphobic.
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Ingredients
| For the glaze: | |
|---|---|
| 4 tsp | vegetable oil |
| 4 tbsp | tomato puree |
| 2 tbsp | cider vinegar |
| 2 tsp | honey |
| 2 tsp | Worcestershire sauce |
| 1 tbsp | Dijon mustard |
| 1/4 tsp | table salt |
| For the meatballs: | |
| 2 | slices sandwich bread |
| 1 | medium onion, finely chopped |
| 1 | garlic clove, finely chopped |
| 1 | medium stalk celery, finely chopped |
| 1 | medium carrot, finely chopped |
| Olive oil, for cooking | |
| 1 tsp | table salt, plus more for vegetables |
| Freshly ground black pepper | |
| 900g | minced beef |
| 1 tbsp | tomato puree |
| 1 tsp | smoked paprika |
| 1 tsp | Dijon mustard |
| 2 tbsp | Worcestershire sauce |
| 120ml | milk |
| 1/4 cup | finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley |
| 2 | large eggs |
Method
Make glaze
Combine glaze ingredients in a small saucepan, and simmer, whisking constantly, for 2 minutes. Set aside.
Make meatloaves
Preheat your oven to 180C /fan 160C / Gas 4. Tear the bread into chunks and then blend it, in a food processor, into breadcrumbs. Place the breadcrumbs in a large bowl. Add the onion, garlic, celery and carrot to the food processor, and pulse it until they are finely chopped.
Heat a large frying pan over medium heat. Once the pan is hot, coat the bottom with olive oil, and heat the oil for a minute; add the finely chopped vegetables. Season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring frequently, until they begin to brown, about 10 to 15 minutes.
Add the vegetables to the large bowl with breadcrumbs, then add the remaining ingredients. Stir the ingredients together with a fork. With wet hands, form the mixture into twelve 7.5cm meatballs; each will weigh about 115g.
Bake meatloaves
Space meatballs so that they are not touching, in a baking dish. Drizzle or brush each meatball with a teaspoon or so of the tomato glaze you made earlier, and bake until cooked through, about 20 minutes. (An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of a cooked meatball will register 71 to 74C).
To serve
Serve with additional glaze on a bed of brown butter mashed potatoes.
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