What are some healthy ways to prepare mealoaf?!
Answers: When I say healthy I mean using ground turkey or ground beef, but I want to avoid using bread, crackers, rice or oatmeal in the meatloaf. Any ideas or suggestions?
Use Ground turkey, i dont use bread or anything. If you must, then use whole grains. You do not have to use egg either. It will hold just fine, and drain whatever grease while it cooks.
You can simply use the ground beef or turkey with one egg, mixing it with your hands. Chop up some onion and add that in. We usually use bread crumbs, but if you don't want to use that skip the step, then just bake the meat loaf.
This meatloaf is from the Chez Melange Restaurant in Redondo Beach, CA., and is definitely worth the extra steps. It has a wonderful mellow blend of flavors that makes it really taste like it came from a restaurant. It's unusual in that in doesn't use bread crumbs as a filler and this was done for the texture, years before the "low carb craze." I've frozen it both cooked and uncooked, and texture does not suffer.
2 tablespoons butter
2 green onions
1 cup onions
1/2 cup green peppers
1/3 cup celery
1 tablespoon garlic
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
2 bay leaves
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup half-and-half
2 lbs ground beef (or mix with part veal or pork or beef)
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons red pepper sauce
Directions
Melt the butter in medium skillet over medium heat.
Add the green onions, regular onions, green pepper, celery, and garlic and cook until softened.
Stir in salt, cumin, peppers, nutmeg, and bayleaves and cook 1 minute.
Stir in ketchup and half and half and simmer 2 minutes.
Cool and remove bay leaves.
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine meat, eggs (lightly beaten), worcestershire, red pepper sauce in large bowl.
Stir vegeable mixture into meat mixture unil well blended. Spoon mixture evenly into a 9 x 5 pan or freeform the mixture (I use the 9 x 5 pan as my mold and place on rimmed cookie sheet).
Bake 70 minutes or until temperature of meat registers 160 degrees.
Cool in pan 5 minutes (at least) and drain and unmold onto serving platter.
I roll it out flat, and fill with spinach leaves and a little cheese, then roll up with them inside it. I also use pizza sauce a little in the meat mixture. Good luck!
Well, you need the fillers to give your meatloaf that soft/ tender texture. Make the crumbs yourself by using whole-grain bread. I never heard of meatloaf with rice as an ingredient. Brown rice is very good for you if you want to give that a try. I always shape my loaf, but never put it in the loafpan. I put it on my broiler pan, so all the fat can drip to the bottom. Oh, and line the very bottom pan with foil, so you have a super easy clean-up.
Just dont make it, easiest way.
use ground turkey, thats probaly the most healthy your gonna get
Meatloaf has to have binding. Oatmeal is the best choice - or whole grain crackers or bread crumbs. Extra lean ground beef or ground turkey is a good choice. I guess you could go with no binding, just eggs, but it would be hard and dense without the bread/oatmeal. The eggs would hold it together.
I'm not sure hon,but maybe adding onions and cheese will give you extra calcium and onions are good for you.Sorry if I couldn't be of more help.
well first you;d have to kidnap him
then slaughter
then cook
and then he'd be done like a 'bat out of hell'
sorry