Meatloaf Arabic style

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 600 g minced beef
• 2 onions, red, diced
• 100 g smoked bacon, diced
• 2 eggs
• 1 garlic clove(s), finely chopped
• 100 g pine nuts
• 60 g raisins
• 5 slices toast bread, crust removed
• some milk, warm
• possibly mint, freshly chopped, as required
• Fat for the casserole dish

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

not quite Arabic because of the smoked bacon

Toast the pine nuts in a pan without fat until they smell fragrant and turn light brown. Place them in a large bowl with the ground meat. Tear the toast into pieces and soak them in enough warm milk to just cover them. Soak the raisins in a little hot water. Fry the bacon without adding any more fat. Add the onions and sauté until they soften and the bacon is slightly crispy. Drain the raisins, add them, and fry briefly. Add this mixture to the ground meat along with the squeezed-out toast, garlic, and eggs. Mix everything together well, preferably with your hands. Then transfer to a greased baking dish and shape into a meatloaf. Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C (top/bottom heat) for about 50-60 minutes. This goes very well with mint creamed potatoes (another of my recipes is in the database). Tip: Depending on your taste, you can also mix some fresh chopped mint into the minced meat dough.