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Yummy Italian Meatloaf
Here’s a scrumptious dish that’ll delight your family and friends. If you have any leftovers, you can take a slice of meatloaf, or make a meatloaf sandwich, for your lunch the next day.
Yummy Italian Meatloaf
Fix-It and Forget-It Kids Cookbook, pg 78
Makes 8-10 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 8 hours
Ingredients:
2 eggs
2lbs. ground beef
2/3 cup dry quick-cooking oatmeal
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
1/2 cup pasta sauce (your favorite)
1 tsp. garlic powder
onion slices, optional
Equipment:
Large mixing bowl
Whisk
4 to 5 qt. slow cooker
1. Ask an adult to help you crack 2 eggs into a large mixing bowl.
2. Use a whisk to beat the eggs well.
3. Add the ground beef, oatmeal, soup mix, pasta sauce, and garlic powder to the eggs in the mixing bowl.
4. Use your hands to mix all of the ingredients together well. Then form the meat into a big loaf, like a loaf of bread.
5. Carefully place the meat in your slow cooker. Wash your hands well.
6. If you like onions, ask an adult to help you slice an onion.
7. Place the onion slices on top of the meatloaf.
8. Cover your slow cooker. Cook the meatloaf on Low heat for 8 hours.
Serving suggestion: Serve the meatloaf with pasta, topped with more of the pasta sauce that you mixed into the meatloaf.
Tip: To remove meatloaf or other meats from your cooker, make foil handles to lift the food out. Use double strips of heavy foil to make 3 strips, each about 20″ x 3″. Crisscross them in the bottom of the pot and bring them up the sides in a spoke design before putting in the food.
Can you substitute ground turkey or ground chicken for the ground beef?
> YES and it is very yummy with the turkey! ! ! !
Can you make it without pasta sauce?
. . . what if there isn’t an ‘adult’ around to crack the eggs for me?
….I think you will have to skip the recipe if you can’t find an adult Anne. Better luck next time!
> I have used a can of cream of mushroom soup (undiluted) in place of sauce.
Another tip to keep your meatloaf from sticking to the bottom of the pot is to place it on top of a slice or two of bread. I always do this whether I cook it in the crockpot or the oven.
Joyce, great idea about the bread, and it absorbs any extra fat/grease that is cooked out!
> I love this. Thank you.
I would have never thought of this!!
MANY THANKS!!!>
I think I would add some parmesan cheese and chopped fresh parsley, as I do when I make meatballs.
I also add a small teaspoon of mustard to my hamburger mix..My dad use to do that and it always tasted so good..
OMGosh!!! This looks heavenly! I don’t know why I haven’t been to your blog before. I love cooking with my crockpots. Makes life so much easier. I will definitely be trying this meatloaf.
I have made any type of meatloaf and cooked it in Campbell’s cheddar cheese soup….so yummy!
At what temperature do you have your crock pot? Mine has low, medium and high.
I make a similar meatloaf but I use barbecue sauce instead of pasta sauce. I found that if I lined the bottom of the crockpot with aluminum foil it browns better. I also use bell pepper in the recipe and on top cause we like bell peppers. Love this recipe. I also put the crockpot on high for 2 hours to get the meat cooking and then cook it on low for 4 hours.
To Laura barbecue sauce does not go with pasta at the end.
Wish I’d read these comments before I put it in the crock pot. I just sprayed it with Pam. Hope it doesn’t stick!
Love the idea of using bread in the bottom.!! Great Idea, Thanks!
My 8yr old and my husband made this yesterday for dinner. You should have seen the sparkle in her face when we all ate it and let her know how good it tasted. Thank you for having a kids cookbook!!
I use slow cooker liners. All you do is lift the liner out of the crockpot cut a small hole to drain the grease and slide the meatloaf on to a platter.