Healthy Meat And Potato Loaf Bhg

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Ingredients

• 2 potatoes, medium peeled cut up
• 2 tablespoons parsley, snipped
• 1/8 teaspoon thyme, dried crushed
• 1/8 teaspoon basil, dried crushed
• salt and pepper
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 cup saltine crackers (14 crackers)
• 1/3 cup tomato sauce
• 1/4 cup onion, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons green peppers, finely chopped
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef (15% fat)
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard

Recipe

• 1 cook potatoes, covered, in boiling salted water about 20 minutes or till tender; drain, reserving liquid. mash potatoes, adding about 3 t of the reserved liquid to make a stiff consistency. stir in parsley, thyme, and marjoram, season to taste with salt and pepper; set the potatoes aside.
• 2 in a large bowl stir together eggs, cracker crumbs, tomato sauce, onion, green pepper, and the 3/4 t salt.
• 3 add beef; mix well. on waxed paper pat beef mixture into a 10x8 inch rectangle; spoon potato mixture lengthwise down center of beef mixture.
• 4 fold sides over potato mixture; seal. place loaf, seam side down, on large baking pan. bake in a 350 oven 45 mines.
• 5 heat together ketchup and dry mustard and spoon over meatloaf in last 10 min of cooking.