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
- ground turkey: 1 pound
- ground pork: 1 pound
- cooking oil: 1 Tbsp
- carrot: 1 piece (minced)
- red bell pepper: 0.5 piece (minced)
- onion: 0.5 piece (minced)
- garlic: 2 clove (minced)
- frozen chopped spinach: 0.33333 cup (thawed)
- bread crumbs: 0.5 cup
- wheat germ: 0.5 cup (optional)
- eggs, room temperature: 2 piece
- ketchup: 2 Tbsp
- salt: 2 tsp
- ground black pepper: 1 tsp
- honey: 1 Tbsp
- ketchup: 1 Tbsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
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Set the ground turkey and ground pork out at room temperature to warm slightly.
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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.
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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.
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Whisk together the honey and 1 tablespoon ketchup in a small bowl; spread over the meatloaf.
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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.
