Omazingly Moist Meatloaf

Posted on Apr 8 2015 - 9:24pm by Marianne

I have been on a hunt to make the most delicious moist meatloaf.
I have cooked our traditional recipe for meatloaf, replacing breadcrumbs for almond meal, but I just wasn’t happy with the texture, I found it dry. So I remembered an ingredient that I cooked with a while ago and it works really well.

Can you guess the secret ingredients in my meatloaf? It is truly O-mazing.

A while ago I asked a customer where I was working how to cook this strange fruit, I followed her instructions and wow it was great. Can you guess? it starts with an O….Okra!

Okra is an amazing fruit, when cooked it releases a slimy goo, I remember it had a slimy texture. So I added okra to my meatloaf together with another O-mazing ingredient.

A nutrient dense ingredient, inspired by on my recent outing to The Paleo Way with Pete Evans.
Offal! Yes the second secret ingredient is Liver.

After blending the liver in a food processor to make a paste, I added it to the meatloaf mixture and it softened quite remarkably.
My husband and kids ate this meatloaf twice without even realising!!!
Yayyyy!! It smells great while its cooking in the oven.
Ok, so please tell me if you guessed those two ingredients.

The first recipe I did with the okra and liver I added 4 okra blended with the other vegies. I found I had to add 2 tbls of almond meal as it was just too soft to handle, but oh my it was so delicious especially eaten the next day.

Therefore you could do it that way or today I just added one okra and it was easier to handle.
Please comment how your meatloaf mixture was using this recipe or both methods.

Omazingly Moist Meatloaf
Serves 4
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
45 min
Total Time
55 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
45 min
Total Time
55 min
Ingredients
  1. 3 semi/hard boiled free range eggs peeled
  2. 1 kilo (2.2lbs) of grass-fed beef mince
  3. 100g (0.220lbs) of raw liver blended to make a paste
  4. 2 large free range eggs
  5. 1 garlic clove
  6. 1-2 carrots peeled and cut in half
  7. 1 red onion peeled and cut in half
  8. 1-2 tender light green stalks of celery (inner stalk)
  9. handful of fresh parsley
  10. handful of spinach
  11. 1 zucchini cut in half
  12. 1-2 mushrooms
  13. 1-2 okra
  14. 1/3 cup tomato passata
  15. 1/2 tbls tomato paste
  16. pepper
  17. 1 tbls and a half of sea salt
  18. 1/2 tbls Italian dried herbs
  19. 250mls of homemade broth
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees (356F)
  2. In a hand blender or food processor chop/pulse up the garlic, carrots, celery, onions, parsley, spinach, zucchini, mushrooms, okra (all the vegies) until all blended however fine or coarse you like. Place this into a large bowl.
  3. Add the mince, 2 eggs (Not the boiled ones), raw minced liver, passata, tomato paste, pepper, sea salt and herbs into the same large bowl.
  4. Combine it all with your hands well, ensuring all the vegies get mixed with the meat and the ingredients all come together really well for about 2-3 minutes. Mix really well. 🙂
  5. Once all the meatloaf mixture is combined, add this mixture to a large flat alfoil lined baking tray. Shape it into a flat rectangle.
  6. Lay your boiled eggs on the bottom half of the mince mixture (rectangle) spread apart in a line. You are going to pull the top of the rectangle shape of mince over the eggs to make a loaf. Shape your meatloaf in a log shape making sure you press in the sides and top evenly. The more you shape it the less likely there will be any holes around the eggs.
  7. When you have a nice log shape sprinkle a little sea salt on top and place it in the oven to bake for 40 minutes.
  8. Meanwhile add your broth to a pan and simmer until hot and starts to thicken a little.
  9. When the juices run clear from your meatloaf remove from the oven and slice to serve.
  10. Add 2 tbls of broth to each serve. The broth will soak into the meatloaf.
Notes
  1. Reminder: if you use 4 okra you may need to add some almond meal.
  2. When I used 1 okra (stated in this recipe) i didn't need any almond meal to bind.
  3. Experiment with 1-2 okra depending on the size.
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Marianne found success with Paleo eating when she did a Whole 30 challenge with her husband in 2014. She hit her goal weight and improved her health and wellbeing. Marianne started giving Paleo makeovers to many of her families' traditional recipes and decided to share it with everyone on her Gusto Paleo blog.

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  • Interesting! Don’t normally like the sliminess of okra, but can see it would make a moist loaf.
    I’m presuming the liver is raw when making it in to a paste?

    • Thanks for your comment Audiothing,
      Yes the liver is raw when minced, I amended the recipe accordingly thanks.