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German Meatloaf Recipe
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
Here he shares recipes, answers cooking questions and helps with cooking.
Today I’ll show you my Meatloaf Recipe without Stuffing.
The specail roast is also known under the name “false hare”.
This recipe succeeds simply and fast, is ideal for the evening and when guests come.
Another Meatloaf Recipe with Egg Filling you can find also here in my Foodblog.
As sauce I have invented a caper sauce in Koenigsberger style. I wish you good luck and a good appetite!
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Meatloaf
Below you will find a step by step guide with many photos and tips.
Further recipe recommendations can be found under the nutritional information.
Now I wish you a lot of fun and good luck…
Meatloaf without Filling
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Servings 2
Calories 1596
Preparation Time 20 Min.
Cook Time 45 Min.
Total Time 65 Min.
Simple instructions for preparing German meatloaf.
Ingredients
Meatloaf Prepare | ||
500 | g | minced meat (mixed half port half beef) |
1 | pc | onion (big or 2 small onions) |
1 | pc | clove of garlc |
1 | tsp | Sunflower oil (for sautéing onion and garlic) |
1 | bunch | Parsley |
2 | pc | rolls (bread rolls diced) |
75-100 | ml | milk |
2 | pc | eggs (for the minced meat mass) |
1 | tbs | mustard (I prefer to use Dijon mustard) |
3 | pc | anchovy fillets |
4 | pinches | Salt |
8 | pinches | Pepper |
some | oil (to grease the roaster!) | |
Potatoes as Side Dish | ||
500 | g | Potatoes (floury potatoes) |
4 | pinches | Salt |
6 | pinches | Pepper |
6 | pinches | nutmeg |
25 | g | butter |
Caper Sauce Koenigsberg Style | ||
1 | pc | onion |
50 | g | butter |
1 | tbs | flour |
50 | ml | White wine dry |
300 | ml | Vegetable broth |
150 | ml | Cream |
5 | pinches | Salt |
5 | pinches | Pepper |
3 | pinches | Cayenne pepoer |
4 | pinches | Sugar |
Decoration | ||
1 | pc | tomato |
some | Parsley |
Instruction
Potatoes prepare
Preparation step 1
Cook potatoes
Cook the potatoes in a pot with salted water until soft.
I like to add caraway seeds and parsley stalks for the taste.
While the potatoes are cooking, prepare the roast minced meat.
Roast prepare
Preparation step 2
Provide ingredients
Place the ingredients in the kitchen. Preheat the oven to 200°C hot air.
Preparation step 3
Soak bread
Cut the bread rolls into cubes and pour over the boiling milk and soak.
Preparation step 4
Cut ingredients
Finely dice the peeled onions and garlic, finely chop the parsley.
Chop the anchovy fillets finely.
Preparation step 5
Prepare onions
Sweat the onion and garlic cubes in a pan for 3-4 minutes with a little sunflower oil and allow to cool for a few minutes.
Preparation step 6
Prepare meat mass
Put the minced meat, parsley, salt, pepper, mustard, garlic and onions as well as chopped anchovy fillets in a bowl.
Preparation step 7
Supplement bread
Add the soaked, squeezed out bread cubes to the minced meat.
Preparation step 8
Mix mass
Mix the minced meat mixture with your hands.
Preparation step 9
Shape roast
Moisten the hands with cold water and form an elongated loaf.
Place the minced meat in the oiled roaster.
Smooth out the roast again and place in the oven on the middle shelf.
Cook at 170-190°C for about 45 minutes.
Prepare Capersauce
Preparation step 10
Prepare sauce
Sauté the diced onion in the butter and prepare a roux with flour.
Preparation step 11
Sauce cooking
Deglaze with cold white wine, add vegetable stock and bring to the boil.
Slowly pour the cream into the boiling liquid.
Preparation step 12
Prepare tomatoes
Cut the tomato in half, cut into quarters, add the core to the sauce and mix with a hand blender.
Cut the tomato skin thinly and cut tomato cubes for decoration.
Preparation step 13
Lemon supplement
Refine the sauce with freshly grated lemon peel.
Preparation step 14
Add capers
Add the capers to the sauce, save some capers for decoration!
Finish meal
Preparation step 15
Finish potatoes
Peel the cooked potatoes and toss briefly in butter, refine with a little parsley and season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and cayenne pepper.
Preparation step 16
Roast ready
Take the minced meat out of the oven.
Preparation step 17
Cut slices
Cut the roast into slices with a moistened knife.
Preparation step 18
Serve
Arrange the meat loaf slices and potatoes on hot plates.
Add the sauce.
Decorate with tomato cubes and parsley and serve quickly.
Enjoy your meal!
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2. Nutritional Values
3. Suitable Side Dishes for Meatloaf
Let us first make some considerations about the appropriate side dishes.
The caper sauce restricts the choice of side dishes a little.
If you can think of anything else, then write me about the comment function. Here comes my list…
Matching Side Dishes:
- Mashed potatoes
- Buttered potatoes
- Jacket potatoes
- Fried potatoes
- Potato gratin
- Jerusalem artichoke puree
- Celery puree
- Carrot vegetables
Side Dish Salad:
4. More and Similar Recipes
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Minced Meat Sauce Recipe in Two Variants, with and without Animal
Moussaka Recipe
German Frikadelle Meatballs Recipe
Meatballs in Sauce Königsberger Original Recipe
Meatloaf Recipe for German wrong Hare with Egg Filling
Swedish Meatballs Köttbullar Recipe
Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe
Beef Tartare Recipe
Bavarian Meatballs – Fleischpflanzerl Recipe
Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
Below you can write to me directly.
Please don’t forget the star rating on the recipe, 5 stars means you liked it!
Hello Sean,
thank you very much for your feedback. That makes me happy!
Kind regards Thomas
When you get a chance, try the beef roulades from the German kitchen. They are delicious, I promise!
Hello Thomas,
we have made your meatloaf twice now and it tastes simply delicious.
So now it’s time for a comment and a postitive compliment with stars.
The pictures are quite great and the steps are very well explained.
Thank you very much! Sean 🙂