Prepper Pupil Version of the Mighty Spicy Meatloaf

Prepper Pupil Version of the Mighty Spicy Meatloaf

This is a prepper version of the Mighty Spicy Meatloaf from My Recipe Repository. This new recipe is perfect for a prepper with a free energy solar cooker. This can also be cooked in an old-fashioned Dutch oven outdoors (fire below and coals on top). While the s&$% has not hit the fan yet and the modern slow cooker or the trusty oven at home still work, perhaps you can use them but, really, nothing beats free energy from the sun to cook this Mighty Spicy Meatloaf.

Ingredients:

• 3 lbs ground beef
• 2 tbsp dried egg or 1 tsp egg powder
• 1 cup dried onions or 2 oz onion powder
• 10 dried red chilies or 2 oz powdered red chilies
• 1 dried red bell pepper or 2 oz powdered red bell pepper
• 2 tbsp dried garlic chips or 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 large dill pickle
• 4 oz pickle juice
• 2 cups whole wheat bread crumbs
• 4 oz catsup
• 4 oz hot sauce
• salt
• ground black pepper

Directions:

1. Get the solar cooker heated up by placing it in an area where it will get plenty of sun for a few hours. 
2. Mince the dill pickle and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, mix together the egg, onion, red chilies, red bell pepper, garlic, minced pickles, pickle juice, whole wheat bread crumbs, salt, ground black pepper and the ground beef.
4. Form the meat mix into a loaf, place it in a bread pan lined with foil and into the solar cooker it goes.
5. Mix together the catsup and the hot sauce.
6. Dump the catsup and the hot sauce mix on top of the loaf.
7. Wait for the sun to do its work for about 4 hours, serve it hot out of the solar cooker or wait 5 minutes for it to chill a bit.

Make sure there is plenty of sun exposure to get a good 175 degrees of heat to work on cooking the meat. Before attempting to cook with your solar cooker, test the solar cooker’s temperatures on a sunny day and if it goes to 175 and over, holds steady from 9 am to 3 pm, your solar cooker will do just fine. 

The Mighty Spicy Meatloaf cooks much faster in a Dutch oven but it requires considerable amounts of energy from you and from your wood pile. In a situation where there is a limited amount of sunlight this may be an option but do keep in mind the resources you have, fuel in the form of wood may be a hard commodity to come by in some parts. 

If you are cooking for one then cut the recipe in half, cook it at half the time and you should have a lunch and dinner meal. Keep it in the solar cooker to keep it from going bad, don’t worry about it getting overcooked or burning, it just does not happen in a solar cooker. If using the Dutch oven method, a re-heat is due in 4 hours to keep nasty bacteria from forming and it should be ready for dinner. By the way, you can cut the recipe even more to just a quarter if you eat like a bird. Try to eat everything and not waste it.