Hidden Veggie Meatloaf
Hidden Veggie Meatloaf

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, hidden veggie meatloaf. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook hidden veggie meatloaf using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hidden Veggie Meatloaf:
  1. Prepare 2 lbs lean ground beef
  2. Make ready 1 lb ground pork
  3. Prepare 1 rib of celery, roughly chopped
  4. Take 1/2 bell pepper, roughly chopped
  5. Take 12-15 baby carrots (or 1/2 cup carrots, roughly chopped)
  6. Take 1 can unsalted tomato sauce
  7. Make ready 1/4 cup water
  8. Take 1 1/4 cup breadcrumbs
  9. Prepare 2 eggs
  10. Make ready 1 tsp onion powder
  11. Take 1 tsp garlic powder
  12. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  13. Make ready 1/4 tsp black pepper

Place celery, bell pepper, carrots, tomato sauce and water in a blender. You want to still have some texture to the veggies, but you don't want them detectable in your meatloaf. In a large bowl combine the meats, veggie puree, breadcrumbs, eggs, and all. I'm currently working on a healthy meal plan for a company behind-the-scenes, and this hidden veggie meatloaf is a part of the plan.

Steps to make Hidden Veggie Meatloaf:
  1. Place celery, bell pepper, carrots, tomato sauce and water in a blender. Blend into a chunky puree. You want to still have some texture to the veggies, but you don't want them detectable in your meatloaf.
  2. Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl combine the meats, veggie puree, breadcrumbs, eggs, and all seasonings. Mix with clean hands until all ingredients are thoroughly combined.
  3. Transfer mixture to a large casserole dish or foil lined baking sheet then mold into short, wide rectangular loaf (I go for about 4"wide by 8" long).
  4. Bake uncovered for 1 hour. Remove from oven. Top with a thin layer of ketchup. Return to oven and bake an additional.30-35 minutes, or until cooked through.

I wanted to take out some of the fat from the ground beef using ground turkey and amp up the filling by basically stuffing every veggie I had on hand into it. Meatloaf is a delicious comfort food that is great teamed with gravy and mashed potatoes, or sliced cold and served on sandwiches. Click here to see what that means! In order to support our blogging activities, we may receive monetary compensation or other types or remuneration for our endorsement, recommendation, testimonial, and/or link to any products or services from this blog. Spread the marinara sauce over the meatloaf.

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