Serves:
4

Freeze?  Microwave?:
You can't microwave cook it, I microwaved it to reheat it the following night (since there are 2 of us, so it did 2 night's dinners)... I guess you could freeze it (I'd freeze it in slices to make it easier to defrost).

Ingredients:
500g beef mince
2 stale bread slices - broken up into breadcrumbs
half a zucchini (grated)
a carrot (grated)
Salt and pepper
1 egg
herbs and spices (I used corriander, cumin, cardamon, curry powder (a smidge) and some mixed herbs)
a dash of sweet chilli sauce
about 1/2 a teaspoon of wholeseed mustard
1 clove garlic (finely diced)
a small onion (finely diced)

glaze:
tomato sauce
sugar

I meant to put tomato paste, peas and corn in, but I forgot to.... I was trying for something cheap.... but if you aren't on a budget then I'd add spring onion, mushrooms......maybe some cheese (parmesan for the kick and cheddar for the creamyness)...

Preparation time:
an hour and a half 

Oven Temp:
About 160?  I can't remember

Method:

1).  Brown the onion and garlic.  Then bung all the ingredients in a bowl (minus the glaze ingredients).. you might want to crack the egg first ;)  (the shell bits get stuck in your teeth).

2).  Mix together...

3).  Line a loaf tin with aluminium foil and pour the mix in... flatten the top down and pack it in hard.  Cover the top with foil and bake it for 1 hour.  (You might want to put a tray under the loaf tin if yout tin is full.. mine dripped)

4).  After an hour, take the meatloaf out and place it on a rack ontop of a tray.  Mix together the glaze ingredients and coat the meatloaf with this.  Pop it back in the oven until this goes dark brown (15 mins or so?).

I served mine sliced with mashed potato and other vegies.... 

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