French style meat loaf

Meat loaf is a very popular dish world wide. This recipe came for somewhere in France. I worked with a French chef once, who thought he was the best cook in the whole world. He also thinks his meat loaf recipe is the best. You be the juge of that after you make the meat loaf.

Place the lean beef mince into a medium size stainless steel cooking bowl. Finely dice the onion and the garlic and add the onion and the garlic into the bowl with the lean beef mince. Add the peppercorns, chopped thyme, ground cloves and the red wine and mix well with a wooden spoon. Crack the eggs into the bowl and mix the eggs into the beef mix. Finish by adding the sea salt then grease a bread tin or meat loaf tin with butter. Add the beef mix into the greased baking tin and cover the meatloaf with tin foil. Bake the meat loaf in the oven on 360F for 15 to 20 minutes. To check if the meatloaf has cooked inside, place a metal skewer into the middled of the meatloaf. If the skewer comes out of the meatloaf dry, your meatloaf is now ready to eat.

Serve some roast meat gravy or beef jus with your meatloaf to add some moisture to the dish.

2 pounds lean beef mince

1 small onion

1 clove of garlic

1 teaspoon pink or greed peppercorns

1 teaspoon chopped thyme

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

6 ounces strong red wine

2 whole eggs

2 egg yokes

Pinch sea salt

Time to make 30 minutes                      Serves 3