Chocolate Raisin Clumps Recipe For Meatloaf

CHOCOLATE-COVERED RAISINS

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper or waxed paper and set aside.
• Place the chopped chocolate and the oil in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave until melted, stirring after every 30-second increment to prevent overheating.
• Once the chocolate is melted and smooth, add the raisins and stir until they're well coated with chocolate. The chocolate will leave a thin coating on the raisins.
• Scrape the chocolate-covered raisins onto the prepared baking sheet and try to separate them so there aren't any large clumps.
• Refrigerate the tray for about 15 minutes to set the chocolate. Break up any clumps into individual raisins.

MEATLOAF WITH RAISINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix all ingredients together & shape into a shallow dome in a 10" round baking dish with sides.
• Bake for at least 1 hour and 15 minutes.

MEATLOAF WITH RAISINS & APRICOTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine beef, pork, eggs, bread crumbs, salt & pepper & mixe well.
• On a large piece of heavy duty foil, spread the meat mixture into a rectangle about 1/2 inch thick.
• Thoroughly mix the remaining ingredients & spread this fruit mixture over the meat mixture.
• Roll up the meat & filling like a jellyroll, then bring the foil up & over the loaf, sealing it well on the top & sides.
• Bake for 30 minutes on a baking sheet, then open the foil to brown, baking the loaf another 30 minutes.

CHOCOHOLICS DEEPLY DELICIOUS DARK CHOCOLATE RAISIN LOAF (ABM)

Steps:

• Remove pan from bread machine and place on electronic scales and zero them.
• Weigh in the water (243ml water weighs 243g) and the rest of the loaf ingredients and replace pan in the bread machine.
• Select Speciality White / Raisin or similar programme depending on your machine and crust type if required (I use a normal crust setting) and start the machine.
• Into a small bowl weigh the raisins, cocoa powder and oat bran and chocolate chips and mix well with a teaspoon.
• I can't get bitter chocolate chips and used the remains of a bar of bitter (70% Cocoa) chocolate which I chipped up to about 1/4 inch 'cubes' with a small sharp knife. I used 22g total in the bowl putting only the bigger bits into the bowl and retained the tiny bits to sprinkle on my next Cafe latte (I guess you could just sprinkle them on top of the hot fresh-baked loaf). For greater indulgence 30g or so of chocolate would be nice but I'd run out for some reason :). The original Panasonic recipe called for 40g. I recommend staying with bitter or bittersweet chocolate (known as 'Plain Chocolate' in the UK) and avoiding milk chocolate. You could just use bitter or bittersweet chocolate chips if you can get them.
• Add the raisins and chocolate chip mix at the beep or at 4 to 5 minutes before final keading ends. (My machine beeps 9 mins before end of kneading which is too long as it always completely pulverises the fruit. Five minutes of mixing-in time is plenty.
• I glaze after baking with a very thin glaze of icing sugar (1 small Tsp) and 1/2 Tsp dried milk powder mixed with a little warm water. It keeps it a bit moister if you prefer it that way.
• You may need to add a teaspoon-ish of water if the raisins are very dried.
• Bakes approx 1 1/2lb Loaf.
• (Some chopped hazelnuts would really go great in this loaf but I seldom have them as they don't keep. You could perhaps swap all the raisins for about 50g-60g Glace cherries (but do drop the water down to 240ml) and then even perhaps substitute a bit of the water for Kirschwasser (cherry brandy) but haven't tried that combination, yet!).
• This is wonderful topped or sandwiched with Dulce De Leche or squishy banana (or both I imagine). It tastes very much like a dark chocolate Brownie.