One of the things that I love the most about the Secret Recipe Club is that it forces me to try some new recipes. I try to pick dishes that I wouldn’t normally make. This month I searched through Anne’s blog, Authentically Simple, where she focuses on budget friendly family meals and found Garden Fresh Meatloaf Balls.
Since I am new to liking meatloaf I figured these would be easy to make, delicious and I would be able to freeze some too. Success! With only about 10 minutes of prep time I threw them in the oven and was able to get some blog work done, take the dogs for a quick walk and come home to clean up the kitchen and have dinner. The perfect week night meal.
I served mine with ketchup while Scott dunked his in sriracha. These went fast! I did one batch in a normal sized muffin tin and the rest in the mini muffin tin and froze them. They were cute little mini meatloaf meatballs. I may even try to use them in a soup.
Turkey Meatloaf Balls
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 40 Minutes
Keywords: entree turkey
Ingredients (18-36 Mini Meatloaf Balls)
- 2 lbs ground beef or turkey
- 2/3 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 zucchini, shredded
- 2 carrots, peeled and shredded
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp oregeno
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- 3 TBSP ketchup
- 1 egg
- Salt/Pepper
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl until well blended.
Form into large balls and place in muffin tins (makes about 18) or mini muffin tins (makes about 36).
Bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes.
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i always make my meatloaf in muffin cups, but have never tried it in a mini muffin pan. great idea! what a good SRC recipe
What a great idea of making the meatballs in a muffin tin and they sound delicious.
I’d love for you to check out my SRC entry Lemon Almond Biscotti.
Lisa~~
Great idea to make mini ones, and I think they’d taste great in soup. Glad you enjoyed the recipe – this is one I make all.the.time.
Oh you chose quite an interesting recipe there! Love the mix of turkey and sweet ingredients.
I was worried they would be sweet tasting and the applesauce just gave good moisture.
Cute! Those sound great – and how easy to double the batch and freeze some!
We LOVE meatloaf in our house. I always set out ketchup though and sriracha sounds right up my husband’s alley. I’ll have to put that out next time. These look great, I’m always up for different versions of meatloaf.
Ooh, I love everything about these. Need to try these. Loved so many things on your blog. Forgot to mention in my post that I also made your cherry granola and the toasted chickpeas. Still enjoying both of those and need more muffins.
YUM! Love that turkey is in this meatloaf!
Coming over from group B (SRC), these are soooo cute!!!!