New Mexico Green Chile Meatloaf

Description

Growing up in New Mexico, we had access to the Hatch green chile (the best!). I add green chile to a lot of my recipes and it rather sets this meatloaf off. It’s very good cold, made into sandwiches the second day.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ pounds hamburger
  • 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
  • 1 (6 ounce) can diced green chiles
  • ¾ cup chopped onion
  • ½ cup milk, or as needed
  • 2 eggs
  • 15 crushed crackers
  • ½ teaspoon salt, or more to taste
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan.
  2. Mix hamburger
  3. tomatoes
  4. green chiles
  5. onion
  6. milk
  7. eggs
  8. crackers
  9. salt
  10. and pepper together in a bowl. Transfer to the prepared loaf pan.
  11. Bake in the preheated oven until until no longer pink in the center
  12. about 1 hour and 10 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
  13. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a serving dish.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins

Servings: 8

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