News article, 29. March 2021

Meatloaf with baked onions, potatoes and vegetable salad

Recipe of the month.

A delicious meatloaf recipe using minced pork and bacon. Serve with baked onions, baked potatoes and raw beetroot with dressing

by voresmad.dk

Ingredients

For 4

Meatloaf

500 g minced pork, 10%
½-1 tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
1 tbsp fresh thyme or 1 tsp dried
1 egg
2-3 cloves garlic
1 onion, approx 100 g
1 dl wheat flour
2 dl water or stock
4 slices bacon

Baked potatoes and onion

4 baked potatoes, approx. 800 g
4 medium-sized onions, approx. 450 g
1 tsp oil
Pinch of thyme if desired

Vegetable salad

1 large beetroot, approx. 300 g
2 medium-sized carrots, approx. 150 g
2 medium-sized apples, approx. 250 g
½ lemon
½ dl whipping cream, 18% fat
3 tsp sugar

Approx. 1¼ hours, incl. 1 hour in the oven

Method

Meatloaf

1 Mix the meat with salt, pepper, thyme, egg, crushed garlic, grated onion and flour.
2 Add the liquid.
3 Put the loaf in the middle of a roasting tray.
4 Cover with bacon slices.
Baked potatoes and onion
1 Scrub the potatoes and peel the onions.
2 Cut slits in the potatoes and onions and arrange them around the meatloaf facing upwards.
3 Brush the slit surfaces with oil and sprinkle with salt and thyme if desired.
4 Place the roasting tray in a cold oven. Switch on the oven to 200 degrees and allow to cook for 45-60 minutes.

Vegetable salad

1 Mix together the juice from the lemon, whipping cream and sugar. Allow to stand and thicken.
2 Cut the beetroot, carrots and apples into matchstick-thin pieces or grate them according to preference. Mix with the dressing.

Use a skewer to check that the meat is cooked through. The juices should be clear.

Tips

The meatloaf recipe can be tweaked by adding freshly chopped herbs, coarsely grated carrots and celery, coarsely grated courgettes, sliced leeks or fried mushrooms.
Up to 300 g coarsely grated courgettes can be mixed in the meatloaf as above. The recipe will then serve 6.
Boiled peas can be served as an alternative to the salad.
Instead of baked onions and potatoes, you can use oven-baked root vegetables.