Name: Baked Beef Meat Loaf
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: Ground Beef: 600 g; Meat Sausage: 400 g; Bread: 200 g; Pecorino Cheese: 150 g; Whole Milk: 200 g; Eggs: 2 eggs; Thyme: 3 sprigs; Nutmeg: greated 1/2 teaspoon; Salt: to taste; Black Pepper: to taste; Extra Virgin Olive Oil: to taste

Cuisine:

Italian

110
Serves 6
Easy

Ingredients

600 g Ground Beef
400 g Meat Sausage
200 g Bread
150 g Pecorino Cheese
200 g Whole Milk
2 eggs Eggs
3 sprigs Thyme
greated 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
to taste Salt
to taste Black Pepper
to taste Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Directions

Meat Loaf is a classic homemade preparation of Italian cuisine, grandmothers and mothers jealously guard the family recipe that traditionally is prepared on Sunday for lunch or dinner when you have guests. It is a second dish of meat that pleases young and old and must to be served in slices, if you like, accompanied by simple side dishes such as baked potatoes; It is so simple to make that you can think of preparing it even in the week and have a unique tasty dish ready to taste even cold.

Meatloaf can be prepared in many different ways: with beef, veal or even mixed pork and veal, chicken or turkey; you can stuff like a roast and cook it in the oven or in a pan.

Steps

1 Done	Remove the crust of fresh bread with a knife, cut it into cubes and transfer it into a bowl: in total, you will need about 150 g of fresh breadcrumbs. Pour the milk into the bowl so that the bread absorbs it and softens.
2 Done	Meanwhile remove the gut from the sausage and crush it. Pour the ground beef into another bowl, then add the sausage, the grated Pecorino Cheese, the bread soaked in milk and squeezed slightly, the whole eggs, the nutmeg, a few leaves of fresh thyme, salt and pepper.
3 Done	Knead the mixture with your hands to mix all the ingredients in a homogeneous way, then give it the shape of a cylinder, taking care to compact it well. Put the meat loaf on a sheet of parchment paper, brush it with olive oil. Preheat the oven to 180 ° in static mode.
4 Done 90	Take a large baking pan, grease the bottom with the olive oil. Place the meat loaf in the center of the baking pan and cook in a preheated 180 ° static oven for about 80-90 minutes.
5 Done	After cooking time, take out the meatloaf and serve it hot.