Description
This soft-textured meatloaf is speckled with vegetables. My kids and I love the flavor of this dish. There’s always enough for sandwiches the next day and crumbled into spaghetti sauce the day after that.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 carrot, minced
- ½ red bell pepper, minced
- ½ onion, minced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ⅓ cup thawed frozen chopped spinach
- ½ cup bread crumbs
- ½ cup wheat germ (Optional)
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
- Set the ground turkey and ground pork out at room temperature to warm slightly.
- Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook the carrot
- bell pepper
- onion
- garlic
- and spinach in the heated oil until soft; set aside to cool.
- Mix together the turkey
- pork
- bread crumbs
- wheat germ
- eggs
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- salt
- and pepper in a large bowl. Add the vegetable mixture and continue to mix until evenly combined; shape into a loaf; lay on the prepared baking sheet.
- Whisk together the honey and 1 tablespoon ketchup in a small bowl; spread over the meatloaf.
- Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink in the center
- 60 to 70 minutes; remove to a serving platter and allow to rest 5 minutes before slicing.
Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Servings: 8