Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf with Smokey BBQ Sauce
Servings: 4 -6
Calories: 366kcal
Ingredients
Meatloaf:
- small handful of parsley
- 2 garlic cloves peeled
- 100 g carrot or zucchini roughly chopped
- 1 small onion halved and peeled
- 500 g beef mince or preferred minced meat
- 2 eggs
- 10 g psyllium husk or 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1 tbsp salt
- ΒΌ tsp cracked pepper
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 10 bacon rashers
- 2 tbsp preferred frying oil
Smokey BBQ Sauce:
- 30 g coconut sugar
- 30 g butter
- 120 g tomato sauce
- 10 g tamari or coconut aminos or worcestershire sauce
- 10 g apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp cacao or cocoa or instant coffee
- 10 g lemon juice
- 90 g water
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
Instructions
- Add parsley and garlic to mixer bowl, blitz for 3 sec/speed 9/MC on.
- Add carrot and onion, chop for 3 sec/speed 6/MC on.
- Add remaining meatloaf ingredients, except for bacon and oil, and pulse turbo 1 sec/5 times to roughly combine.
- Remove meatloaf mixture to a silicone mat or large piece of aluminium foil and shape into a rounded meatloaf shape.
- Wrap bacon rashers around meatloaf and secure in place with toothpicks.
- Transfer meatloaf to large bottom steaming tray. It's okay if it bends up the sides.
- Add 600 g or 21.2 oz water to mixer bowl and steam meatloaf for 45 min/steaming temp/speed 2/MC off. In the last 20 mins of steaming time, feel free to add vegetables around meatloaf to cook and serve.
- With 5 mins remaining, heat preferred oil in a large frying pan to medium heat.
- Transfer meatloaf to frying pan and brown on all sides.
- While the meatloaf is browning, prepare smokey BBQ sauce with a clean bowl:
- Add all sauce ingredients to mixer bowl, cook 5 min/steaming temperature/speed 2/MC off.
- Remove toothpicks and serve meatloaf with steamed vegetables or salad and smokey BBQ sauce drizzled over the top.
Notes
I used smoked streaky bacon.
You can prepare the sauce standalone to use with other dishes.
I used Thermobextas *amazing* tomato sauce recipe for my sauce, in which I substitute the raw honey with coconut sugar :)
This is loosely inspired by the Womans Weekly BBQ Meatloaf.
Sauce Only
Serving Size: 30g / Serves 10
Kj: 172
Cal: 41
Protein: 0.6g
Fat: 2.6g
Sat Fat: 1.6g
Carb: 3.8g
Sugar: 3.5g
Sodium: 181mg
Nutrition
Serving: 140g | Calories: 366kcal | Carbohydrates: 3.6g | Protein: 28.6g | Fat: 26.1g | Saturated Fat: 9.6g | Sodium: 1440mg | Sugar: 1.8g
