Best Ever Meat Loaf

By Beefman-2

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1 1/2 tablespoons hickory barbecue sauce
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 1/3 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 2 cloves garlic
• 3/4 cup italian bread crumbs
• 1 egg

Details

Servings 5
Cooking time 45mins
Adapted from bigoven.com

Preparation

Step 1

1, Preheat the oven to 400 F

2. In a large bowl, stir together the ketchup, bbq sauce and the sugar; set aside 1/4 cup of the mixture.

3. With your hands, mix in the remaining ingredients.

4. Form the mixture into a loaf and placed into a greased 9 by 5 inch loaf pan. (If you don't have a loaf pan, that's ok - I use a rectangular pan and that works fine)

5. Bake, COVERED, for 30 mins.

6. Uncover and drain the fat from the pan, then slice the meat loaf while still in the pan.

7. Drizzle the reserved tomato sauce mixture evenly over the meat loaf. (The reserved amount of sauce is not enough for us-I make more sauce while meatloaf is cooking so that every slice has sauce on the top and so that the sauce runs down into between the slices).

8. Bake, UNCOVERED, for an additional 30 mins or until cooked thoroughly.