Meat bread (mitlof in English-speaking countries) – new and not commonplace an alternative for those who are tired of conventional cutlets, and a side dish in the form Relisha (appetizer with chopped pickled or fresh vegetables) with a rich tomato flavor will add fragrant notes to блюду. 
Time: one час.50 minutes Difficulty: easy Servings: 6 – 8 Recipes used volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Tomato Relish
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 red sweet peppers without pits, pitted, finely diced
- 2 tomatoes, cut in half, remove the seeds and finely dice
- 0.25 Art. chopped parsley
- 1 bottle of ketchup (approximately 350 gr.)
- 1 tbsp. l Worcester sauce
Meat bread
- 3 slices of crustless white bread, torn to pieces hands
- 0.25 Art. whole milk
- 700 gr. ground beef
- 700 gr. minced pork
- 2 eggs
- Leaves from 2 sprigs of thyme
- 3 to 4 slices of bacon
Recipes with similar ingredients: onions, garlic, bay leaf, sweet pepper, tomatoes, parsley, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, white bread, milk, ground beef, minced pork, eggs, thyme, bacon
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
- Cover the skillet with oil and place on medium the fire. Sauté onions and bay leaf garlic for few minutes to create a basic flavor. Add red pepper and cook for several minutes until soft. Now add Tomatoes adding them at this point allows them to keep their form and does not allow to decay. Stir, add parsley, ketchup and Worcester sauce; season with salt and pepper. Stew the sauce on simmer for 5 minutes to combine all the flavors. Remove it from the stove; you should get about 4 tbsp. appetizer sauce.
- Put torn white bread in a bowl, add milk to it barely covered the bread and let it stand while you make mitlof.
- Now is the time to get your hands dirty! In a large deep bowl, mix ground beef and pork with 1.5 tbsp. tomato sauce, eggs and thyme; season with salt and pepper. Squeeze the extra milk out of the bread and add the soaked bread to the meat mixture. To check, fry a small meatball cutlet; minced meat should have uniform soft texture and do not fall apart. Try the salt patty and spices.
- Lightly grease the baking tray. Put the meat mixture in center the baking sheet and form a loaf of size approximately 20 cm long and 10 cm wide. Cover the top part of meat bread 0.5 tbsp. tomato sauce. Lay the bacon along top of the loaf.
- Bake meat bread for 1-1.5 hours until the bacon is crispy, and mitlof solid. Turn the meatloaf from time to time to the bacon was fried evenly. Remove the meat loaf from the oven and let it cool slightly before slicing it. Serve the meat bread with the remaining sauce.
