Monday was “Meatloaf Monday” when I was in college. I had a dorm-mate who went home to see her hometown honey most weekends. She also went by her grandmother’s and picked up “a few things for you girls” to eat. Thus my freshman, sophomore, junior five pounds. (Thank heavens she went home and married him!) Her grandmother put magic (including gluten filled cornbread) in her meatloaf. So “Meatloaf Monday” was something super yummy to look forward to. This recipe captures her magic but drops the gluten.
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 6 | 80minutes |
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 6 | 80minutes |
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 pounds Turkey ground
- 1 Onion small sweet or red onion, peeled
- 1 Carrot medium to large carrot, peeled and trimmed
- 3 clove Garlic fresh peeled
- 1/2 cup tomato ketchup
- 1 Tbsp. Molasses
- 1 Egg organic free-range (or omit for egg-free and use 1 more Tbsp.molasses)
- 3/4 cup cornbread crumbs gluten-free, of course! We have a recipe...
- pinch Nutmeg
- pinch Cinnamon
- 1 tsp. Thyme
- Sea Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 1/3 cup Brown sugar
- 1/3 cup Ketchup
- 2 tsp. Balsamic Vinegar to taste
- 1 tsp. honey mustard
- pinch Cinnamon
- pinch Nutmeg
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Put the ground turkey into a large bowl and using a fork or spoon, break it apart it a bit.
- Roughly chop the onion and carrot into same sized chunks and place them into a food processor; add the garlic; pulse until the veggies are uniformly diced- fine- not too chunky; add them to the turkey. Toss lightly with a spoon or fork to quickly distribute the veggies. Add the ketchup, molasses, egg (if using), cornbread crumbs, spices and thyme. Mix it all up using a light touch; try not to over-mix it into mush (over-mixing makes for a dense loaf).
- If the mixture is too dry at this point, add a little more ketchup. If it feels too wet, add more cornbread crumbs. You want a nice stick-together balance.
- Spoon the meatloaf mixture into a standard size loaf pan and firmly press into place, smoothing and rounding the top of the loaf so that the sides are lower than the edge of the loaf pan (you don't want the glaze spilling over the sides later on).
- Bake in a pre-heated oven for 40 minutes. Meanwhile, make your brown sugar glaze.
Brown Sugar Meatloaf Glaze
- 1.in a small bowl stir together all ingredients to combine
- At the 45 minute mark, remove the loaf from the oven.
- Spoon the glaze mixture on top of the loaf.
- Bake for an additional 30 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 180 degrees F. Allow the cooked loaf to cool for ten minutes or so before slicing and serving.
- Use leftovers for pie.
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