Bacon-Wrapped Meatloaf

This bacon-wrapped meatloaf has some surprising elements inside with dark chocolate and chipotle. Might sound crazy but it is so good! It's delicious served hot for dinner, but also really good the next day or a piece of sourdough bread.

Course Main

Cuisine Dutch

Keyword garlic, onions, pancetta

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 55

Total Time 1 15

Servings people

Calories 579

Author Simone

Ingredients

1 big onion sliced
3 cloves garlic sliced
70 gr panko
60 ml milk
50 gr dark chocolate
4 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce finely chopped plus 1-2 tsp of the adobo sauce if you like it extra spicy
2 tbsp fresh thyme
80 gram pancetta chopped
24 slices pancetta
2 eggs
800 gr ground meat 50%beef/50% pork
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tbsp dijon mustard
salt

Metric - Us customary

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180 C/350˚F
Cut the onion finely as well as the garlic. Take a small bowl and put the panko together with the milk in it and leave to soak for about 5 minutes.
Fry the onion and the garlic until translucent. Add the chocolate and the chipotle and stir until melted through. Set aside to cool
Place the ground meat into a large bowl and add the fresh thyme, the cayenne pepper, the dijon mustard, the eggs, the panko, the chopped pancetta and mix everything well
Don't forget to add salt and pepper. If you're unsure if you got the seasoning right, take a tiny bit of meat and bake a mini hamburger to test. If it lacks anything, add it.
Take a loaf pan of about 25 cm/10 inch long and line the loaf pan with the strips of pancetta. Make sure they overlap each other. Add the meat mixture in and press this tightly with a spoon. The tighter the better it will stick together when you turn it out. Place the overhanging pancetta strips over it and place into the oven (place on a tray as there will be some fat coming out)
Place into an oven for 45 minutes, remove from the oven and leave to stand for five minutes before turning over on the baking tray and remove the tin. Be careful as hot fat might come out! Place back into the oven to crisp the pancetta on the top of the loaf. This will take about 15 minutes.

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