Best Alabama Meatloaf Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED MEATLOAF RECIPE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat; add celery and onion, and sauté 7 minutes or just until tender.
• Stir together celery mixture, ground beef, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, breadcrumbs, and next 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Shape into a 10- x 5-inch loaf; place on a lightly greased broiler rack. Place rack in an aluminum foil-lined broiler pan.
• Bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Stir together remaining 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, tomato sauce, tomato paste, and 1 tablespoon ketchup until blended; pour evenly over meatloaf, and bake 10 to 15 more minutes or until no longer pink in center. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
• Note: For testing purposes only, we used Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning and Cavender's All Purpose Greek Seasoning.

BLACK FOLKS SOUTHERN SOUL FOOD MEATLOAF RECIPE

Steps:

• Season the ground beef with the all-purpose seasoning salt and set it aside.
• Add the sweet ketchup and brown sugar to a small bowl and stir until the sugar dissolves. Set the ketchup mixture aside.
• Open the Instant Pot and turn on the sauté setting for 5 minutes.
• Keep the lid off and add the butter, onion, bell peppers, and garlic to the stainless-steel inner pot.
• Sauté the vegetables in the butter for about 2 minutes or until the onions and peppers have softened.
• Turn off the sauté setting and remove from the heat the inner pot with the onion and pepper mixture.
• In a large bowl, mix the bread crumbs and the milk.
• Then mix in the egg, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder, thyme, basil, parsley, paprika, pepper, and the sautéed vegetables.
• Gently mix the seasoned ground beef into the other ingredients until all the ingredients are well combined. (You can do the mixing by kneading with your hands, stirring by hand, or with a stand mixer on low.)
• Form a loaf with the ground beef meat mixture and place it in a pre-greased loaf pan that fits inside the Instant Pot inner pot. Or place the meatloaf on a piece of greased aluminum foil that you wrap around it like a boat. The foil should come above the meatloaf on all sides but not cover the top of the loaf. Pro tip: You can make multiple little meatloaves and place them side by side or stacked in the Instant Pot. If you have multiple trivet racks, you can use another one as a shelf to stack!
• Spoon or brush the top of the meatloaf with the set-aside ketchup mixture.
• Pour the water into the Instant Pot stainless steel inner pot and add the Instant Pot trivet rack to the pot.
• Place the foil-wrapped meatloaf or meatloaf in a pan on the trivet rack.
• Close the Instant Pot lid (make sure the valve is up - in the position for sealing) and pressure cook on high for 35 minutes.
• When the cooking time is finished, allow a natural pressure release for at least 5 minutes.
• To open the Instant Pot lid, move the valve to 'venting' and manually release any remaining pressure, if applicable.
• Use an oven mitt to remove the meatloaf using the trivet rack handles.
• Remove the meatloaf from the foil or pan, being very careful because the drippings will be hot!
• Optionally garnish your meatloaf with fresh chopped parsley or fresh sprigs of thyme.
• Then slice this Black folks' Southern soul food meatloaf on a platter, serve, and enjoy!

MEATLOAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a stand mixer, mix the beef, cracker crumbs, egg, ketchup, mustard, salt, pepper, and onion until just blended. Shape the mixture into two loaves and place side by side crosswise in a 9-by-13-by-2-inch pan. Bake the loaves for 1 hour, or until they are browned. Transfer to a platter immediately and allow the loaves to cool slightly and firm up before slicing.
• For sandwich: cut 2 thick slices of cooled meatloaf and place on white bread with lettuce and tomato. If you've never had a cold meatloaf sandwich the next day, you don't know what you're missing

CLASSIC MEATLOAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment.
• Combine the meatloaf mix, breadcrumbs, parsley, eggs, onion, garlic, 1/4 cup of the ketchup, 1 tablespoon of the Worcestershire, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in a large mixing bowl. Using your hands, mix together until well combined.
• Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking sheet and form it into a compact oval-shaped loaf about 9 inches by 5 inches. Bake the meatloaf for 30 minutes.
• Stir the brown sugar together with the remaining 1/4 cup ketchup and 1 teaspoon Worcestershire in a small bowl for the glaze. Brush the top and sides of the meatloaf all over with the glaze. Return to the oven and bake until the glaze starts to caramelize and a thermometer inserted in the center of the meatloaf registers 160 degrees F, about 25 minutes more. Let rest for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.