Mini Meat Loaves Wrapped in Bacon

pinky kookie's Note:

I found this excellent recipe in Chris Jordan's Blog - (See notes from Chris) -I post it here for mickey downunder. Enjoy it.

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 12

Yield: 12.0 mini lo ...

• 2 lbs lean ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 2 eggs (Chris uses 1 tablespoon cornstarch instead of the eggs due to allergies)
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1 cup dry breadcrumbs (Chris uses gluten free bread crumbs)
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (optional)
• 12 bacon, slices

I also added

• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon taco seasoning mix, to add more flavor to the ground meat

Directions:

1. In a bowl, mix the meat with onion, garlic and spices and then add ketchup, Worcestershire and beaten eggs into the meat.
2. Add bread crumbs and mix well. (You will need to use your hands and knead it up well.) If you are going to add shredded cheese, toss it in at this point as well.
3. Roll the meat into 12 balls that fit into your muffins tin baking pan.
4. *MY CORRECTIONS: I cooked the bacon slices separately in a skillet and drained all the excess of fat and set aside. I baked the meat loaves in a 350ºF. preheated oven for about 30 minutes until they were well cooked from the center.
5. Then, I placed meat loaves in a baking tray and wrapped a cooked bacon slice around each meatloaf and broil them for about 5 minutes until they looked brown and crispy.
6. Served with steamed broccoli and mashed potatoes, if you like.
7. Note: Chris says:" It is sort of like a tiny self contained bacon cheeseburger".

Reviews

[JenRooney]

Made these tonight with lean beef (93%lean) and they came out amazing! I used regular strip bacon which I under cooked and finished cooking under broiler. Also substituted garlic tomato sauce instead of ketchup. Will be a family favorite.

[Chef #252727]

This didn't work for me. The muffin tins were filled with a lot of grease, so the bottom of the bacon didn't crisp. The grease also overflowed into the oven and started to smoke. The meatloaves themselves weren't all that great for my taste depsite a presence of bacon that usually makes everything good.

[LuuvBunny]

These were not quite as good as I thought they would be.There wasn't much flavour to the meatloaf,next time I would add italian seasoning and perhaps some chili powder.Since the bacon was wrapped around the meat,the bacon underneath was very soggy and undercooked.I think it would be better to just use a small piece of bacon and lay it on top since that's the only part that crisps up.Also,the cooking time was longer than 12 minutes for mine.It took more like 20-25 minutes.