Not Your Mama’s Meatloaf
This easy-to-make meatloaf recipe packs in all the wood-fired flavor you know and love, while leaving out all the bad memories from the underwhelming meatloaf of your childhood.
Ingredients
Glaze
- 1 cup Sweet Baby Rays Original BBQ Sauce
- ½ cup apple juice
Meatloaf
- 1 ½ cup Italian season breadcrumbs
- 1 ½ cup milk
- 2 Tablespoon onion chopped
- ½ Teaspoon ground sage
- 2 Teaspoon salt
- 2 egg beaten & added to milk. set aside.
- 2 ½ Pound ground beef
- 1 ½ Pound ground sausage
- ½ Teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- ⅛ Teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ Teaspoon Winches Gold "Cayman" Steak & Rib Rub Or your favorite Meat rub
Instructions
Glaze
- Combine Sweet Baby Ray's Original BBQ Sauce with the apple juice.
Meatloaf
- When ready to cook, set Traeger temperature to 225℉ and preheat, lid closed for 15 minutes. For optimal flavor, use Super Smoke if available. (Rich used Hickory wood pellets.)
- Mix together milk & egg and set aside
- Combine Italian seasoned breadcrumbs, onion, garlic powder,Italian seasoning, sage and salt. Add beaten eggs & milk mixture. In a separate bowl, combine ground beef and ground sausage, mix well. Then add to breadcrumb mixture, mix well, but don't over mix. If the mix seems too dry gradually add a Tablespoon of milk until the right consistency. If it gets too wet add ¼ cup additional of breadcrumbs. (This will help keep your meatloaf moist.)
- Using parchment paper, Form mixture into a loaf, packing tightly. Sprinkle the outside of the loaf with Cayman Steak & Rib Rub. Set aside 15 minutes before placing on smoker.
- We used a Roasting pan with a wire rack so that the meatloaf doesn't get soggy in the grease. Spray rack with grill non stick spray. Place a double fold of heavy duty tin foil over the bottom of wire rack, spray with non stick spray. Transfer the meatloaf to the wire rack and place on the grill. Cook for 2 hours, or until it reaches an internal temperature of 160℉.During the last 20 minutes of cook time, glaze the meatloaf with the glaze mixture.
- Let meatloaf rest 5 to 10 minutes before slicing. Enjoy!
