Italian-Style Meatloaf
"Adapted from a recipe in Aus Super Food Ideas magazine."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 brown onions, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 kg beef mince
- 1 (200 g) jar sun-dried tomato pesto
- 2 1⁄2 cups fresh white breadcrumbs
- 1 lemon, rind grated
- 1 egg
- 1⁄2 cup green peas
- 1⁄2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- 40 g butter, melted
directions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius.
- Grease a loaf pan and line with baking paper, allowing 2cm overhang on each side longwise.
- Heat oil in a pan over medium heat and cook onion and garlic until soft. Allow to cool.
- Combine mince, pesto, 1 cup breadcrumbs, lemon rind, egg, half the onion mixture and peas in a large bowl. Mix well then spoon into loaf pan.
- Combine remaining breadcrumbs and onion mixture, parmesan and butter in a bowl. Spoon over meatloaf.
- Bake for 30 minutes, then remove from oven and cover top loosely with foil. Cook for a further 20-25 minutes until cooked through.
- Cool for 10 minutes, then lift out and place on a serving plate.
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I'm clumsy and mostly quite useless in the kitchen, but I love eating certain things that the rest of my family does not. So lately I've taken to trying out recipes to satisfy the food craving and things have turned out suprisingly well so far. =)
