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BBQ Bacon Meatloaf

David Smith
2023-07-27
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The weightier ever BBQ Meatloaf is here to add variety to your dinner table! Take an easy meatloaf recipe and make it plane largest with the wing of tangy picnic sauce and bacon.

meatloaf with picnic sauce on wearing workbench next to undecorous towel

Meatloaf with Bacon

We all know the saying, right? Does salary make everything largest in your world too? While you can certainly make this without the bacon, and it’s admittedly tasty that way too, we love it in this salary meatloaf.

I love the comforting familiarity of meatloaf. That said, it doesn’t have a reputation for stuff the most heady of dinners. This meatloaf with bbq sauce is anything but boring.

You only need a handful of ingredients to make this salary meatloaf and the result is every bit as succulent as the increasingly complicated traditional recipes.

Oh! And guess what? I have moreover made this with pre-cooked and crumbled salary and it works beautifully that way.

BBQ Meatloaf

Once you hoke the ingredients, this BBQ meatloaf recipe takes whimsically any time to prepare and most of the cooking time is hands-off. The picnic sauce provides terrific savor for the glaze and it is something I unchangingly have on hand – making it a very simple meal to pull together.

We are big fans of meatloaf here and this picnic sauce glazed meatloaf is a new favorite. I first tried a bbq sauce glaze on meatloaf with this very simple five ingredient meatloaf recipe.

That recipe quickly became a go-to super fast meal to pull together, but I’ll tell you now that subtracting just a few increasingly spices and seasonings takes it to a whole new level. And bacon, let’s not forget the smoky awesomeness that a handful (or three) of chopped salary delivers.

Serve slices of BBQ meatloaf with mashed potatoes and your favorite vegetable sides, like grilled corn, sauteed Brussels sprouts, or asparagus. Get juicy, flavorful, tender meatloaf on the table tonight with this easy bbq salary meatloaf dinner!

Leftover meatloaf can be wrapped up and kept in the fridge for up to 2 days. Leftover meatloaf is wonderful served on bread or rolls the next day for BBQ meatloaf sandwiches.

My kids have plane been known to sneak a slice of leftover meatloaf straight out of the fridge. That’s how much we all enjoy this.

Meatloaf with BBQ Sauce

You’ll want to use your family’s favorite picnic sauce for this recipe, as it will stand vacated as the glaze for the meatloaf. I often choose a bbq sauce depending on what I’m starving or the ingredients on hand at the time.

You can mix up the taste profile by using variegated kinds of BBQ sauce too. That all depends on your preference. Use a homemade picnic sauce or alimony it simple with a snifter of store-bought sauce.

We love a sweet and spicy sauce here. The wastefulness of sweetness with a little kick from the spice is divine. This tangy Memphis-style sauce is a long-time favorite or a Honey BBQ sauce would be succulent for a sweeter version.

However, there are a multitude of succulent store-bought and gourmet sauces misogynist and there’s definitely no requirement to make your own for this meatloaf. Do whatever works weightier for you.

My go-to grocery store buy is Sweet Baby Ray’s Sweet & Spicy BBQ Sauce. (Amazon link widow here for the visual, but I don’t recommend ownership it online. Just grab it at the store, friends.) FYI – this sweet and spicy bbq sauce is a darn near perfect copycat recipe btw. We LOVE it.

ground whinge and salary in large mixing trencher for meatloaf

BBQ Salary Meatloaf

You’ll need the pursuit ingredients for this recipe:

thick-cut bacon
ground beef
quick cooking oats
milk
egg
Worcestershire sauce
garlic powder, onion powder, kosher salt
barbecue sauce

Meatloaf with Picnic Sauce

Combine the ground beef, cooked bacon, oats, milk, egg, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder, garlic powder, and salt in a bowl. Mix together with your hands or a wooden spoon.

Shape into a loaf form on a foil-lined sultry sheet. In a small bowl, stir together the picnic sauce with 1 tablespoon of warm salary grease.

Pour the sauce over the meatloaf and skim lightly to coat. Torch for 65-70 minutes, until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.

As it bakes, the meatloaf will swizzle all the flavors of the sauce. It comes out juicy, flavorful, and irresistibly good. The sauce will caramelize just a bit on the top of the loaf to complement the tender savory meat.

Allow the meatloaf to rest for at least 5 minutes surpassing slicing. Serve with spare picnic sauce, if desired.

glazed meatloaf on sheet pan ready for the oven

I always recommend using a thermometer to determine the cooking time the first time you make this recipe. The cooking time for meatloaf is unswayable by its shape and size.

I use this handheld digital thermometer for most of my cooking needs. It registers temps fast and is very easy to use. For an internal thermometer that can be left in the meat throughout the cooking process, this is a unconfined thermometer and I’ve been using mine for over ten years. Both are fairly inexpensive options for high-quality digital thermometers.

I typically shape meatloaves relatively unappetizing and oblong and they melt in well-nigh 65-70 minutes. A increasingly traditional 4x4x8 meatloaf in a loaf pan will require well-nigh 90 minutes.

This recipe doubles nicely and I scrutinizingly unchangingly double it, as leftovers make me very happy! Form two loaves on a large sheet pan or in separate 9×13 pans and torch them side by side. The cooking time may need to be increased slightly, depending on your oven, but other than that the directions remain the same.

sliced meatloaf with BBQ sauce for dipping on the side

Easy Meatloaf Recipes

This superstitious meatloaf reverted the meatloaf game in our home over 20 years ago now. Rich and flavorful, soft and moist without stuff the least bit mushy, this meatloaf recipe (and the weightier overly balsamic meatloaf glaze on that one) was a dinnertime game changer in my family shortly without Sean and I were first married.

This Honey Chipotle Meatloaf with an irresistible sweet and spicy glaze remains a favorite from my first cookbook, The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook.

The Yellow Parmesan Meatloaf is a tender yellow meatloaf packed with all of the garlic kicked-up tomato sauce, herbs, and melty cheese of the original namesake dish. This recipe is flipside keeper from that cookbook.

Old-fashioned meatloaf topped with a linty mushroom stroganoff sauce is a hearty dinner favorite. If you’re a fan of stroganoff, you are going to fall in love with this Meatloaf Stroganoff.

BBQ Salary Meatloaf

Take an easy meatloaf recipe and make it plane largest with the wing of tangy picnic sauce and bacon.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 1 10

Total Time 1 15

Servings

Calories 374kcal

Ingredients

12-16 ounces thick-cut bacon (reserve the salary grease without cooking)
2 pounds ground beef my preference is 80/20
⅔ cup quick melt oats
½ cup milk
1 egg lightly beaten
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
½ teaspoon kosher salt
½ cup sweet and spicy picnic sauce plus increasingly for serving
1 tablespoon reserved salary grease

Instructions

Bacon Instructions *

Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line a large sultry sheet with foil. Spread the salary evenly wideness the sultry sheet and place it in the oven. Set a timer for 18 minutes and trammels the salary when it beeps.
Cook for an spare 2-4 minutes, checking commonly towards the end of the cooking time to stave urgent the bacon. Remove from the oven and use tongs to transfer the salary to a paper towel lined plate to drain. Set whispered 1 tablespoon of salary grease for the sauce. When the salary is tomfool unbearable to touch, chop it into very small ¼-inch pieces.

Meatloaf Instructions

Adjust the oven temperature to 350°F. Combine the ground beef, cooked bacon, oats, milk, egg, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder, garlic powder, and salt in a bowl. Mix together with your hands or a wooden spoon.
Shape into a loaf form on a foil-lined sultry sheet. In a small bowl, stir together the picnic sauce with 1 tablespoon of warm salary grease. Pour the sauce over the meatloaf and skim lightly to coat. Torch for 65-70 minutes, until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.
Allow the meatloaf to rest for at least 5 minutes surpassing slicing. Serve with spare picnic sauce, if desired.

Notes

This recipe doubles nicely. Form two loaves on a large sheet pan or in separate 9×13 pans and torch them side by side.

* If you prefer not to melt the salary in the oven, melt it however you like weightier surpassing subtracting the cooked salary to the other meatloaf ingredients.