Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1/2 c Quick rolled oats 2 lb Lean ground beef
1/3 c Milk 1/4 c Ketchup
2 lg Eggs 2 ea Sweet red, green, and
1 sm Onion, finely chopped -yellow peppers, seeded and
2 tb Worchestershire sauce -cut into 1-inch squares
1 ts Salt Red-Pepper Sauce (recipe
1/2 ts Dried thyme leaves -follows)
1/4 ts Ground black pepper Fresh basil sprigs (opt.)

1. In large bowl, combine oats, milk, eggs, onion, Worcestershire
sauce, salt, thyme, and black pepper; let stand 5 minutes. Add ground
beef and ketchup; mix well.

2. In bottom of aluminum-foil-lined 9 by 5-inch loaf pan, arrange
pepper squares in tricolor checkerboard pattem. Extend 1 row up each
long side of pan. Set aside. Chop remaining peppers and add to beef
mixture. Pack mixture firmly into pan lined with peppers. Refrigerate
loaf at least 1 flour.

3. Heat oven to 350'F. Unmold loaf into shallow baking dish. Discard
foil. Tear off a 30-inch sheet of aluminum foil and fold lengthwise
several times to make 2 1/2-inch-wide piece. Grease lightly and wrap
lightly around loaf. Crimp ends together to secure. Bake loaf 45
minutes. Remove foil; transfer Meat Loaf to platter and serve with
Red- Pepper Sauce (recipe follows). If desired, garnish platter with
fresh basil sprigs.

Red-Pepper Sauce: In food processor with chopping blade, combine 4
roasted, peeled, and seeded sweet red peppers, cut into pieces, 1
tablespoon lemon juice, 1 t sugar, and 1/4 t salt. Process until
completely pureed. Serve with Three-Pepper Meat Loaf.

Country Cooking/Summer/94 Scanned fixed by Di and Gary

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