Sunshine Meatloaf

Submitted by Alan Leonetti

"This was my mother's recipe. The reason she put the hard-boiled eggs inside the meatloaf, was to get me to eat when I was a small child. She'd say, "Look, there's the sun". Others in the family say that it was to enable her to stretch the meat & keep the cost down."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 45mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 3 lbs ground beef (80% lean)
• 1 onion (chopped)
• salt and pepper
• granulated garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon tarragon
• 1 teaspoon basil
• 1⁄2 - 3⁄4 cup plain breadcrumbs
• 2 eggs (raw)
• 4 -6 large eggs (hard-boiled)
• 1 (16 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 cup ketchup
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1⁄2 cup red wine
• 2 tablespoons dried parsley flakes

directions

1. In a large bowl mix together ground round, salt, pepper, garlic, tarragon, basil, bread crumbs, raw eggs, Worcestershire, red wine& parsley flakes.
2. In a 13” x 9” pyrex baking dish form half of the meat mixture into a free form oval shape.
3. Place hard-boiled eggs, end to end, lengthwise down the center of the meat.
4. Arrange the remaining half of meat to cover the eggs… Mix the tomato sauce& ketchup& smother it over the top of the meatloaf… Preheat oven to 350 degrees& bake, uncovered, 1 1/2 hours… Slice& serve.
5. so that each slice has a slice of hard-boiled egg that resembles the sun.