Spicy Meatloaf Nourishing Traditions Recipes

SPICY MEAT LOAF

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the onion, shredded carrots, and diced celery. Cook until nice and soft. Then add the salt, thyme, and cayenne. Stir, stir baby.
• While the veggies are cooking, mix the bread crumbs, milk, and egg together in a bowl. Don't do what I did and do it in a tupperware, which could make the following steps much more difficult.
• Once the veggies are cooked and slightly cooled, mix them into the milk/egg/breadcrumb mixture. Then, add your meat. And your fish sauce. Mix with your hands - it's just easier that way.
• Shape the mound of meat into a nice little loaf and bake at 375 degrees for about an hour and a half, or until cooked thoroughly.

CLASSIC SPICY MEATLOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion, green onions, carrot, celery, and garlic until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Cover skillet with a lid and cook, stirring occasionally, until carrot is tender, about 5 more minutes. Stir 1/3 cup ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper into vegetable mixture; cook until warmed through, about 1 minute.
• Mix ground beef, sausage, vegetable mixture, bread crumbs, parsley, and eggs in a large bowl; form into a loaf and place in a rectangular baking pan with 2-inch high sides. Cover loaf with remaining 1/3 cup ketchup.
• Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink in the center, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).

SPICY, GARLICKY MEATLOAF

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, garlic, scallions, jalapeño, sage, salt and black pepper.
• In a separate bowl, stir together bread crumbs and stock, cream or milk. Let stand five minutes.
• Add pork, beef and soaked bread crumbs to egg mixture. Knead ingredients together until just combined. Press mixture evenly into an 8- or 9-inch loaf pan. Bake for 55 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk together the tomato paste and olive oil. After meatloaf has finished baking, brush top with glaze; sprinkle with pine nuts, if using. Bake 15 minutes more (glaze will be thick and a meat thermometer should read 160 degrees). Let meatloaf rest for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.

SPICY MEATLOAF - NOURISHING TRADITIONS

Steps:

• Saute onions, carrots, celery in butter until soft.
• Stir in chile flakes, thyme, pepper, and sea salt.
• Soak bread crumbs in cream.
• Use hands to mix meat, sauteed vegetables, soaked crumbs, egg and fish sauce.
• Form into a loaf and set in 9X13 pyrex pan.
• Ice with tomato paste or ketchup.
• Add 1 cup water to pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.

NOURISHING TRADITIONS WAFFLES (GRAIN SOAKING METHOD)

Steps:

• Soak flour in buttermilk in a warm place for 12-24 hours.
• Stir in egg yolks, syrup, butter, and salt.
• In a clean bowl, beat egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.
• Fold into batter.
• Cook in a hot, well-coted waffle iron.
• Serve with melted butter and maple syrup.