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Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe

Published: Aug 30, 2020 · Modified: Dec 8, 2024 by Timea · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Served on White Plate With Boiled Potatoes

I thought I'd show you how to do it step by step in the basic easy meatloaf recipe, stuffed with cheddar cheese, yellow bell pepper and kapia pepper, a delicious dinner. It is a recipe loved by everyone and well known, in countless variations, this being closer to my soul.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Served on Plate With Boiled Potatoes

As you know, meatloaf is a dish of ground meat that has been combined with other ingredients, after that is pan-formed by cooking it in a loaf pan. If the most common version is with minced beef, today I will choose the pork mince, which I think is juicier and more delicious.

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  • What Ingredients to Use in Meatloaf?
  • Preparing the Ingredients
  • How to Make the Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe?
  • How to Bake the Meatloaf
  • Meatloaf Serving Idea
  • Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe

If you want, you can also combine 50% pork with 50% beef, it will be just as tasty, it is important in my opinion to put a percentage of pork meat in meatloaf.

Also, in the area of Eastern Europe, it is fashionable for the meatloaf to be filled with hard-boiled eggs. I gave up this option and chose cheese and peppers for it. Through this basic easy meatloaf recipe, as well as the best turkey meatloaf recipe, they have become the family's favourites.

What Ingredients to Use in Meatloaf?

We need first of all minced pork, with a little fat in it, about 800 g. But as I said you can also use a mixture of pork and beef.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Pork Mince

It is to be mixed with two eggs, an onion, and a sprig of leek that we will finely chop in an electric chopper. The yellow bell pepper, kapia pepper and cheddar cheese I will use as a filling in the meatloaf.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Eggs, Onion, Leek, Peppers and Cheddar Cheese

The last ingredient would be bread, of which we soak in water about 4 slices. Whoever wants can put breadcrumbs instead of bread, but I prefer the first option.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Soaking Slices of  Bread

Preparing the Ingredients

Start with the vegetables, which we clean and peel, cut the peppers in half and remove the seeds.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Cleaned and Peeled Onion, Leek, Bell Pepper and Kapia Pepper

Cut the onion and leek coarsely to make them easier to chop with an electric chopper.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Coarsely Sliced Onion and Leek

Bell pepper and kapia pepper after remove the seeds, I cut them into strips that I will put inside the meatloaf.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Peppers Cut Into Strips

Cheddar cheese, which we also use as a filling, can be grated or sliced. This time I chose the second option.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Sliced Cheddar Cheese

How to Make the Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe?

You will see that this recipe is not so complicated. I can even say that it is easy to make. To start, put the minced meat in a bowl in which we will mix all the ingredients. I start with the two eggs, which I break and put over the meat.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Eggs on the Pork Mince

Season with a teaspoon of sea salt, a teaspoon of black pepper and two teaspoons of ground white pepper.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Eggs on the Pork Mince Seasoned With Salt and Ground Pepper

Add the rest of the ingredients that we will pass through the electric chopper. First, I put the soaked bread, which I squeezed out of the water and I make a paste out of it.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Soaked Bread in Electric Blender

Continue with leeks and onions.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Coarsely Sliced Leek in Electric Blender

Put all the ingredients in the bowl over the meat, and add another tablespoon of a vegetable mix for soups, half a tablespoon of sweet paprika powder and half a tablespoon of marjoram.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-All Ingredients in the Bowl

Mix everything well until you get a homogeneous paste.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Mixed Meat Paste

How to Bake the Meatloaf

We need a loaf baking pan, in which we pour 50 ml of oil, I put sunflower, and we grease it well.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Sunflower Oil in the Loaf Pan

Put half of the meat paste in the form of baking and press it lightly with your fingers to level it and press it a little.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Half of Meat Paste in the Loaf Pan

Next, the filling. I place the pepper strips along with the pasta, which will look beautiful when we cut a slice of meat.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Peppers Strips on the Meat

Following by slices of cheddar cheese and slices of pepper again.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Peppers Strips and Cheddar Slices on the Meat

Cover with the rest of the meat paste.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Covering the Stuffing With Rest of Meat Paste

I level it nicely with my hand and give it a rounded shape. Here, there are some that cover the meat with smoked bacon or with a glaze. You can do it, but I prefer in this basic recipe to leave it like this.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Meatloaf Ready to Bake

Cover with aluminium foil, and put in the preheated oven at 180 degrees and bake it for about 50 minutes.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Meatloaf Covered With Aluminium Foil

After fifty minutes, remove the foil from the meatloaf, increase the temperature to 200 degrees and put the tray back for ten minutes.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Meatloaf is Half Baked

After ten minutes, the meatloaf will have a beautiful, golden colour and will be ready to serve.

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Ready to Serve

This is the basic easy meatloaf recipe, which I recommend you try, it is delicious. Let's serve the dish.

Meatloaf Serving Idea

It can be served as cold, when it is even easier to slice, but also hot, as I served it with some boiled potatoes with a little parsley. It's awesome!

Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe-Served on Plate With Boiled Potatoes

If you like the basic easy meatloaf recipe and the pork meat, I recommend other recipes on our blog such as:

  • Easy Oven Baked Pork Steak Recipe
  • Fried Breaded Pork Chops Recipe
  • Simple Pork Tenderloin Stew Recipe
  • Pork Shoulder Stew With Mushrooms
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Basic Easy Meatloaf Recipe

Timea
I thought I’d show you how to do it step by step the basic easy meatloaf recipe, stuffed with cheddar cheese, yellow bell pepper and kapia pepper, a delicious dinner.
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 1 hour hr
Total Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins
Course Dinner
Cuisine Hungarian
Servings 6 portions
Calories 539 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 mixing bowl
  • 1 loaf baking pan

Ingredients
 
 

  • 800 g pork mince
  • 2 pieces eggs
  • 1 piece onion medium size
  • 1 piece yellow bell pepper
  • 1 piece kapia pepper
  • 120 g cheddar cheese
  • 1 piece leek
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 2 teaspoons ground white pepper
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable mix
  • ½ tablespoon sweet paprika powder
  • ½ tablespoon marjoram
  • 50 ml sunflower oil

Instructions
 

  • Start with the vegetables, which we clean and peel, cut the peppers in half and remove the seeds. Cut the onion and leek coarsely and the cheddar cheese sliced it. From bread soak in water about 4 slices.
  • Put the minced meat in a bowl and put in turn the rest of the ingredients: eggs, sea salt, black and white peppers, vegetable mix, paprika and marjoram. Chopp in electric chopper the soaked and squeezed bread slice, the leek and the onion, then add to meat. Mix all verry well.
  • Take a loaf baking pan, in which we pour sunflower oil, and grease it well. Put half of the meat paste in the form of baking, place the kapia pepper strips along with the pasta, followed by slices of cheddar cheese and slices of yellow pepper. Cover with the rest of the meat paste.
  • Cover with aluminium foil, and put in the preheated oven at 180 degrees where we leave it for about 50 minutes. Remove the foil from the meatloaf, increase the temperature to 200 degrees and put the tray back for ten minutes.
  • It can be served as cold, when it is even easier to slice, but also hot, as I served it with some boiled potatoes with a little parsley.

Notes

-you can also use a mixture of pork and beef instead of pork
-whoever wants can put breadcrumbs instead of bread slices

Nutrition

Serving: 1gramsCalories: 539kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 29gFat: 44gSaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 118mgSodium: 593mgFiber: 2gSugar: 2g
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