Applewood Smoked Meatloaf

Ingredients

• • 2 pound ground chuck

  • 1 pound ground pork or ground pork sausage

  • 1 medium onion - finely chopped

  • 1 green pepper - finely chopped

  • 3 cloves finely minced garlic

  • 3 eggs - beaten

  • 1/4 -1/2 cup barbecue sauce, your choice

  • 3 teaspoons barbecue rub, your choice

  • 1-1/2 teaspoon soy sauce

  • 1-1/2 teaspoon salt (cut in half if your bbq rub is salty)

  • 1 teaspoon black pepper

  • 3/4 cup bread crumbs

Preparation

• Set your grill up for an INDIRECT cook

• Heat your grill to 275-300 degrees and put on some applewood (or other wood) chunks to get a little smoke rolling

• In a large bowl, crumble the beef and pork and mix together.  Add the eggs, barbecue sauce, rub, soy sauce, salt, pepper, onion and green pepper

• Form the mixture into two 1.5 lb loafs

• Sprinkle some more bbq rub on the outside of the formed loafs

• Transfer the meatloaf to your preheated grill and cook until you reach an internal temperature of about 145-150 degrees.  This may take ~75 minutes

• Sprinkle a little more bbq rub on and baste with barbecue sauce. 

• Continue cooking for another 10-15 minutes until you reach an internal temperature of 160 degrees.  

• Remove from the grill, tent with foil, and rest for 5-10 minutes.  Remove from the pan or dish and serve hot!