This Savory Brown Sugar Meatloaf recipe is not your average meatloaf recipe. This one has been a family favorite for years and has only gotten better each time it is prepared. The most important ingredient is in the title of the recipe 😋
I call this meatloaf a “comfort food” LOL, there is just something about a meatloaf and smashed potatoes – it’s the perfect meal for a family to sit down to dinner to enjoy! Plus, to make this meatloaf meal extra special, you can take a muffin pan and make individual serving meatloaves! I like the corner or side pieces of meatloaf, because they are usually “crunchy”, so when baked in a muffin pan all around the edges are crisp! YUMMY! 🙂
Savory Brown Sugar Meatloaf ingredients (scroll down for full recipe)
- ground beef
- garlic powder
- black pepper
- salt
- saltine crackers
- yellow mustard or brown mustard
- worcestershire sauce
- eggs
The recipes for the meatloaf and the sauce, that is poured on top of the meatloaf, both call for yellow mustard or brown mustard. The reason for either is because we have made the recipes with both mustards.
Sometimes, we may have brown mustard, but when we have ran out of it we have substituted with yellow mustard and we love both. So, either mustard will work.
Brown Sugar Sauce Ingredients: (scroll down for full recipe)
- ketchup
- worcestershire sauce
- yellow mustard or brown mustard
- brown sugar
I love recipes that can be made the day before or early in the morning. To be taken from the refrigerator to the oven at dinner time. And, while the meatloaf is in the oven mashed potatoes or any other veggies can be prepared.
My family prefers mashed potatoes with alot of butter. My son, Barrett, will ask, “Are those real potatoes?” Which is interpreted, I hope they are not instant potatoes 😆 Of course, during the summertime we love fresh green onion and fried squash or okra from our garden.
Here’s little Gabe, who’s my help in the garden. He always finds those sneaky zucchini squash that hide from me, LOL! But, this squash make an excellent side dish to this meatloaf.
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Savory Brown Sugar Meatloaf
This meatloaf recipe is sent over the top with its brown sugar glaze.
Ingredients
Brown Sugar sauce
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 Tbsp yellow mustard or brown mustard
- 3 Tbsp brown sugar
Meatloaf
- 2 lbs of ground beef
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 sleeve of crushed saltine crackers
- 2 Tbsp yellow mustard or brown mustard
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- In a medium bowl combine all meatloaf ingredients and mix well
- Spoon into a greased loaf pan
- Place into oven and bake for 30 minutes
- While the meatloaf is baking, take a small bowl and mix the brown sugar sauce ingredients together
- After 30 minutes take meatloaf from the oven and spread the sauce on top and bake an additional 30 minutes or until the internal temp. is 160 degrees.
For these recipe pics, we baked this meatloaf in a loaf pan. But, I prefer a 9×9 inch pan. The meatloaf is thinnier and has more crusty sides after baking. A muffin tin pan will also work for individual serving size meatloaves. So, either size of pan will work.
Some people will prefer a thicker meatloaf and some may like a thinnier meatloaf. The most important part of the recipe is the brown sugar sauce that goes on top of the meatloaf!
Just about any vegetable will be a great side dish with this meatloaf:
- potatoes, mashed, fried or baked
- mac and cheese
- corn
- fried or baked squash
- fried or baked okra
- green beans
- cole slaw
- lettuce salad
- sweet peas
- yams
- baked beans
- carrotts
- sliced tomatoes
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- cabbage
- green onion
Try some of our delicious dessert recipes:
- Butterfinger Carmel Cake
- Lemon Pie Bars With Lemon Glaze
- Granny Eppler’s Peach Cobbler
- Easy Key Lime Pie
This is how we enjoy our meatloaf, with a side of smashed potatoes and garden green onion! Yummy!
Try our other Dinner recipes:
- Ground Beef & Bean Enchiladas
- Fried Onion & Avocado Burgers
- Beans, Taters & Cornbread
- Easy Dorito Chicken Casserole
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