Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, my mom's meatloaf. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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My mom's Meatloaf is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. My mom's Meatloaf is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have my mom's meatloaf using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make My mom's Meatloaf:

1. Take ground beef at least 87 lean
2. Get butter
3. Take Ritz crackers
4. Make ready Green pepper diced
5. Get Diced yellow onion
6. Prepare Sliced yellow onion
7. Make ready Onion mix
8. Make ready eggs
9. Get big can of whole peeled tomatoes
10. Take flour
11. Prepare parsley
12. Get basil

My family doesn't like little pieces of onion in anything like hamburger, so I use onion powder (because I don't want to eat this whole thing myself - which, now that I think about it might be a pretty good idea but I'll need to save that for a super hungry day!). This is my mom's meatloaf recipe and still my favorite. This is the best meatloaf, we always like to have extra glaze to serve with it at the table as well! But I think I need to forget that one and go for it!

Steps to make My mom's Meatloaf:

1. In a small pan, heat some olive oil and brown the onion and green pepper until tender. Set aside to cool
2. Mix beef, some cumin, salt and pepper, crushed Ritz crackers, cooked onion and green pepper, onion mix
3. Form into a loaf this is what it should look like. In oven 1.5 hours 375 degrees
4. Now for the sauce: in a new and deeper pan melt 3 tablespoons of butter and cook 1 sliced onion until clear. Add some basil and salt and pepper
5. Add the 3 tablespoons of flour and stir constantly for about 3 mins (medium heat)
6. Dump all the canned tomatoes with medium high heat and cut up the tomatoes as they cook
7. Fill the tomato can up with water and add stepwise until it's empty. Stir frequently
8. Let simmer for a while then turn off heat.
9. When meatloaf is done take out of oven and let it rest for 5 mins, put in new dish then pour sauce on top of it. Cook in oven same heat for 10 mins
10. Remove and let it rest for 10 mins. Serve with rice and a green veggie. Garnish with parsley. Enjoy

My Mom has been making this recipe for years, and we all agree it is the best meatloaf ever. In my world, a great meatloaf is tender, super moist, full of flavor and not greasy. Each year, my mom would make my brother and I whichever meal we wanted for our birthdays, and this tasty dish was my go to. Served with mashed potatoes and a veggie, I would be one happy girl! My dad and brother weren't fans of meatloaf, so they didn't particularly love my birthday choice each year, haha!

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