Christmas Meat Casserole with Pistachios

Meat casserole, meat bread are not very popular, but in vain. Try to cook just such a "loaf" of meat and, perhaps, it will become your signature holiday dish.

Ingredients

• 500 g beef shoulder pulp
• 600-700 g of pork neck pulp
• 300 g long slices of smoked bacon
• 2 large eggs С0 + 2 yolks
• 1 small courgette or zucchini
• 1 large apple
• 2 large onions
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• 50 g soft dried apricots
• 3 sprigs of thyme
• 100 g peeled pistachios
• 130 g delicious bread crumbs
• 1.5 st. l. Dijon mustard and ketchup
• 1 tbsp. l. Worcester sauce
• 2 tbsp. l. butter
• 1 tbsp. l. sweet ground paprika
• salt freshly ground black pepper
• green beans for serving

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 170 ° C. Take an oblong deep muffin tin and line it with bacon slices, spreading them slightly overlapped across the pan so that the ends hang down.
2. Peel the onion, garlic and apple. Chop the onion and garlic at random, the apple into 6-8 mm cubes. Grate the zucchini / zucchini on a coarse grater. Cut dried apricots into small cubes. Remove the stems from the thyme.
3. Darken the onion and garlic in 1 tbsp. l. butter and salt over low heat, 4–5 minutes, transfer to a bowl. Put the remaining butter and apples in the pan, fry a little, 2-3 minutes.
4. Rotate the pork and beef through the large wire rack of a meat grinder. Next, twist the fried onions and garlic. Add eggs and yolks, zucchini, apples, dried apricots, crackers, chopped pistachios to the minced meat. Combine Worcestershire sauce with mustard, ketchup, paprika, salt and pepper, add to the minced meat, mix thoroughly.
5. Place the minced meat in the prepared bacon pan, wrap the ends of the bacon over the meat, and cut out a piece of parchment to accurately cover the surface of the minced meat. Place the dish in a deep baking sheet with water, place in the bottom third of the oven. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes.
6. Turn on the grill in the oven at 220 ° C. Gently drain the liquid formed in the form (use it when cooking beans), remove the paper. Turn the casserole onto a baking sheet lined with clean parchment and place under the grill to brown the bacon, 5 minutes. Serve with green beans.