Bacon-Wrapped Meatloaf with Brown Sugar-Ketchup Glaze

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 44.

	this recipe	typical
egg	9%	11%
dairy	0%	7%
aromatics	14%	17%
sweetener	9%	19%
salt	1%	1%
liquid	0%	8%

Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

68 g	1/4 cup ketchup or chili sauce
27 g	2 tablespoons light or dark brown sugar
10 g	2 teaspoons cider or white vinegar
9 g	2 teaspoons vegetable oil
150 g	1 medium onion, chopped
6 g	2 garlic cloves, minced
100 g	2 large eggs
2 g	1 teaspoon dried thyme
6 g	1 teaspoon salt
	1/2 teaspoon ground black paper
9 g	2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
	2 teaspoons Worchestershire sauce
1 g	1/4 teaspoon hot red pepper sauce
	1/2 up milk, buttermilk or low-fat plain yogurt
907 g	2 pounds meat-loaf mix (2 parts ground chuck, 1 part ground veal, 1 part ground pork)
23 g	2/3 cups crushed saltine crackers (about 16) or quick oatmeal or 1 1/3 cups fresh bread crumbs
33 g	1/3 cup minced parsley
170 g	6 ounces thin-sliced bacon

Method: 7 steps, published by www.foodnetwork.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“a great recipe. in fact, you dont even need to follow this one, any meatloaf recipe works well, just wrap it up in bacon. i've found that doing a weave pattern with the bacon, then lining a pan in plastic wrap, laying the bacon over it and then putting the mea” — a cook, 5★

“My wife and youngest son love meatloaf. The other 3 boys will tolerate it. This was my first time making meatloaf and made a few changes. I used ketchup and bbq sauce together for the glaze. I did not add the mustard or pepper sauce. I used 1 lb of ground ” — a cook, 5★