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This Honey BBQ meatloaf of one delicious meatloaf recipe. It is a perfectly moist and flavorful meatloaf recipe with oats, spicy brown mustard, smoky barbecue sauce, and more!
Why you’ll love this recipe:
Meatloaf is a wonderfully hearty meal that can be made in many different ways to make sure you and your family will enjoy a delicious dinner.
With this version of moist meatloaf, you will get a delicious meal that is a true comfort food classic with the easy honey barbecue meatloaf mixture, then just add a few side dishes to finish it off.
Key Ingredients:
- Protein: For the best results, use lean ground beef
- Combining agents: Use both oatmeal and egg to combine with the beef
- Sauce: Adding Worcestershire sauce, honey, and your favorite barbecue sauce to create a perfect balance of sweet and savory flavors
- Mustard: Using spicy brown mustard is a great way to add a little twist of flavors to the combination of ground beef
- Seasoning: Both salt and ground black pepper are all you’ll need
How To Make Our Honey BBQ Meatloaf Recipe:
Mix meatloaf mixture:
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix together ground beef, oatmeal, eggs, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, MMQ sauce, honey, and salt and black pepper.
Add to loaf pan:
- Prepare loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- When completely combined, mold the meat into a thick log and place it into the prepared loaf pan.
Make honey barbecue sauce:
- In a small bowl, whisk topping ingredients together and spread half on top of the meatloaf.
- Reserve the other half of the tangy honey bbq glaze for serving.
Bake meatloaf:
- Bake at 350℉ for 50-60 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 5-10 minutes.
- Slice into serving sizes and drizzle sauce on top.
Expert Tips:
- We’ve found that the easiest way to mix the meatloaf meat well, to make sure the seasoning is completely distributed, is to do it by hand.
- Only mix until combined to avoid over-mixing and having a tough loaf of meatloaf.
- Add a little Parmesan cheese to the mix for even more flavor.
- The secret ingredient to keeping this meatloaf moist is using honey in the recipe, plus it adds delicious flavor.
Substitutes for oats:
We like to use oats in the recipe to keep this recipe gluten-free; however, you can also use fresh bread crumbs or panko crumbs in place of the oats.
Safe temperature for meatloaf:
When making beef meatloaf, you will want to use an instant read thermometer to check that the meat mixture has cooked to at least 160℉.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: After cooking the meatloaf, let the remaining pieces cool down to room temperature and then store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Honey BBQ Meatloaf Recipe
This honey BBQ meatloaf blends oats and spicy mustard under a sweet, smoky glaze for an easy comfort food dinner.
Serving servings
Ingredients
Meatloaf
- 2 pounds lean ground beef
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 2 eggs
- 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 Tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- ½ cup bbq sauce
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- salt and pepper, to taste
Topping
- ¼ cup bbq sauce
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together ground beef, oatmeal, eggs, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, MMQ sauce, honey, and salt and pepper (I found that it's easiest to use my hands to mix it all together. When completely combined, mold meat into large mound and place into loaf pan sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, whisk topping ingredients together and spread half of topping on meatloaf. Reserve the other half for serving
- Bake at 350℉ for 50-60 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for 5-10 minutes, then slice into serving sizes and drizzle sauce on top
Notes
- We’ve found that the easiest way to mix the meatloaf meat well, to make sure the seasoning is completely distributed, is to do it by hand. Only mix until combined to avoid over-mixing and having a tough loaf of meatloaf.
- Add a little Parmesan cheese to the mix for even more flavor.
- The secret ingredient to keeping this meatloaf moist is using honey in the recipe, plus it adds delicious flavor.
- We like to use oats in the recipe to keep this recipe gluten-free; however, you can also use fresh bread crumbs or panko crumbs in place of the oats.
- When making beef meatloaf, you will want to use an instant read thermometer to check that the meat mixture has cooked to at least 160℉.
Nutrition
Calories: 346 kcal · Carbohydrates: 27 g · Protein: 36 g · Fat: 10 g · Saturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 148 mg · Sodium: 593 mg · Potassium: 722 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 19 g · Vitamin A: 167 IU · Vitamin C: 1 mg · Calcium: 47 mg · Iron: 5 mg
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Wow this looks so good. I must make this…I am 32 weeks pregnant and just had a root canal. seeing this tasty dish is unfair haha 🙂
I love meatloaf and have been looking for a new way to make it. Thank you!
Be still my heart! I live for honey BBQ sauce. It’s my favorite! And this meatloaf looks so juicy and perfect slathered with tons of sauce 🙂
We just had this for dinner and it was a major WIN. I even got the coveted “please add to rotation” request from my husband! YUM!
i just made this and am so disappointed. mine was all mushy and nothing like normal meat loaf. inside temp was 180 so i know it was done. i don’t if it was because i used a glass pan but im so disappointed.
The first time I made it mine also came out runny and mooshy and I only use glass cookware. I I made it a second time today in a glass pan as usual but made sure to really keep an eye on my measurements. It’s really easy to go overboard when your rushing around the kitchen. I took my time and made it for lunch this go around and it came out perfect! It doesn’t come out like my normal meatloaf. It is softer but it wasn’t a sloppy mess this time. Jennifer if at first you don’t succeed try try again 🙂
I made this tonight and Mine came out mushy… I used a metal pan and measured everything and didn’t even use all the bbq spread for the top because it was already too runny! My husband said it was like bbq meatballs smooched out! Tasted good but texture was not so good
Made this tonight. The taste was delicious, but the texture was more sloppy-joe-like instead of firm like meatloaf. I noticed that there aren’t any breadcrumbs of any sort in this recipe … I’m not a good freelancer in the kitchen, so I wouldn’t be sure exactly how much to add if I wanted to. I guess I could start with a 1/2 cup. I hope more people make this and add their comments. 🙂
Panko is a type of Japanese breadcrumb and my most favorite! It’s in oven now, can’t wait to taste it!
I have made this several times as it is written above and yes, mine has also come out mushy. I think it may be due to there being no bonding agent (egg). Any thoughts on adding an egg?? I want to try it but am nervous to ruin it completely. However, when I think about it, every other meatloaf recipe I have ever made calls for an egg or two…..hmmm….
Maybe try an egg and a little oatmeal. That is what we use as the bonding agent in another one of our recipes….Grandma A’s Meatloaf.
I just tried making this tonight….I was so excited to try a meatloaf recipe other than my own. This one was different and sounded great. I must say I wondered about it not saying to add egg but I followed the recipe anyways. IT TURNED OUT AWFUL!!! Similar to other ladies, mine was mushy like I’ve never seen ground beef be…I’m a texture person so needless to say this was bad…I’m sorry but bad enough to not even try again.
I made this tonight and it turned out great! I was nervous given the other comments about it being mushy so I did add an egg and normal bread crumbs along with the panko, I also used ground turkey and it had great flavor and a normal meatloaf texture. 🙂
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Amazing recipe
What kind of oatmeal do you use???
We like quick oats, but any kind will be fine.
This recipe always turns out amazing for me! I’m not sure why so many people are asking about adding eggs, since there are clearly 2 eggs on the ingredient list.
This meatloaf turned out great!
I love this recipe!! It has a great flavor and is delicious