Unfortunately our featured food guest post for today had a family emergency so won’t be sharing with us today but she promises she’ll be back with a fabulous recipe soon. Instead, I get to share with you one of my family’s favorite dinner time meals that is easy, tastes delicious and is easy on the waste line. I call it Easy Turkey Meatloaf. I first came across a similar recipe in a magazine (either Real Simple or Food, Family, Fun?). I made it so often that I stopped following the recipe and started throwing whatever I found in my fridge in it. It’s such a versatile dish that you can eat it by itself or slice it up and make a meatloaf sandwich.
In a large bowl mix up the following ingredients…
Sometimes I throw in a chopped up onion (because I love onions), mushrooms, minced garlic…like I said, whatever you have in your fridge.
Place in a baking dish and form in to a loaf.
Bake it in the oven and you’ve got a crowd pleasing, moist meatloaf! Plus it will keep you on track with your New Year’s goals because it’s made with turkey, instead of ground beef and you can substitute low fat cheese instead of the the full fledged stuff. Two birds, one stone.
Easy Turkey Meatloaf:
-1 pound ground turkey
-1 packet Lipton Onion Soup Mix
-1 cup chopped spinach
-1 cup ground crackers (I prefer Ritz but I’ve also used tortilla chips and even heard of using a box of Stove Top Stuffing…whatever you’ve got)
-2 eggs
-1/3 – 1/2 cup of water
-1 cup cheese (may substitute low fat cheese)
-Optional additions: Chopped onion, minced garlic, chopped mushrooms.
Mix with hands. Form in to a loaf and set in baking dish. Bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes or when bubbly and cooked throughout. During the last 10 minutes, remove and cover top with a thin layer of ketchup. Enjoy!
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MMMMMMMMM ~ Yum! This looks DELISH! Thanks for sharing! Maybe I can get my Mister to make it for us!
Wow, I must try it!!! Looks yummy:)
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My husband and i love ground turkey(i.e. Turkey burgers with jalapenos and pepper jack cheese mixed in…mmm)! I tried this recipe tonight, but used cilantro instead of chopped spinach, it’s what i had on hand, its delicious! thank you for the yummy recipe:) I, also, pinned this on pinterest..
Delicious! Made this for dinner tonight and it was a huge hit! Thank you for a great recipe, this will be in my regular rotation now!
Susan, that recipe is in our regular rotation as well. Glad you liked it! Thanks for your comment and happy meat-loafing!
just wanted to say thank you for posting this recipe! i need more easy recipes like this in my life right now. my husband and children loved it!
Thanks for your comment Kristen! So glad you like it!
This meatloaf was the best I ever made! My husband has asked that I make this once a week.
Yay! I’m so happy he liked it! Thanks for dropping a line and letting me know!
Trying this out as I write : ) I’ll let you know what my picky kids and hubby say!
Yay! I hope it turns out!