Paleo Recipes

Now in life there is always those confidence foods the ones you remember from your childhood that make you feel all warm and homely well for me meatloaf is got to be one of them. It reminds me of sitting at home around the table with my family on a cold winter’s night and my mum would serve up the meatloaf and everybody would be enjoying it.

The only trouble is meatloaf in its original form doesn’t really fit with a paleo lifestyle your original ingredients of flour and eggs to bind the meatloaf together don’t really work in a paleo sense. So when I’m really hankering for meatloaf I am really put to the test to find ingredients to replace those binding agents to create a meatloaf that fits my paleo lifestyle and also fulfils my craving for meatloaf.

We all know there’s lots of different ingredients we can use to replace the wheat flour for example nuts but in this recipe it’s been replaced with mushrooms to create a juicy and very tasty paleo meatloaf that holds together well.

A source of ketchup, honey and Worcestershire sauce was created to spread on top of the paleo meatloaf to give it that touch of sweet and sour while it was cooking. However if you do not have these ingredients to hand in your kitchen you can always just top it with a home-made ketchup for some sort of tomato-based sauce to make it juicy.

In all this meatloaf is very filling and would be great served with a small side salad.

Paleo meatloaf ingredients

This is a great recipe and serves 5

Ingredients

2 lb ground beef

1 ½ tsp sea salt

1 tsp ground black pepper

1 egg

1 medium onion, finely chopped

2 cups white button mushrooms, finely chopped

1 tsp chili pepper flakes

3 tsp fresh thyme, minced

1 tsp fresh oregano, minced

3 cloves garlic, minced

½ cup homemade ketchup

1 tbsp honey, optional

½ tbsp Worcestershire sauce, optional

1 tbsp paleo cooking fat

How to prepare

1, preheat your oven to 350 F

2, put a medium-sized skillet on a medium heat, and start to melt down the cooking fat, add the mushrooms and source and cook for around three minutes or until they are soft.

3, with a large bowl you need to combine these ingredients the meat, eggs, onion, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, garlic, chilli pepper and mushrooms, you need to mix well and make sure that you breakup the meat. Now add the cooked mushrooms to the mix it is very important that you distribute the mushrooms out evenly as this helps bond the meatloaf together.

4, now you need to lightly grease your loaf pan with additional cooking fat and fill it with your mixture then place it in the oven and cook for approximately 15 minutes.

5, while you’re paleo meatloaf is happily cooking in the oven get a small bowl and combine ketchup, honey and Worcestershire sauce to make the delicious sauce that you are going to spread on top of your delicious meatloaf.

6, after cooking for around 15 minutes you need to gently spread your source over the top of your meatloaf.

7. Continue cooking for around another 40 minutes and serve with a delicious salad.

I hope you find this meatloaf recipe as delicious as I did.

If you are living a paleo lifestyle and looking for some great paleo recipes then I recommend you check out this New Paleo Recipe Book it has over 370 recipes and its a must have for anybody living a paleo lifestyle it really helps me create some delicious paleo meals.

The important thing when living a paleo lifestyle is that you keep your meals interesting and exciting because living the paleo way is supposed to make your life not only more healthy but more enjoyable and this also includes meals if your meals are exciting and tasty then you will look forward to meal times and really enjoy living the paleo way.

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