Italian Meatloaf

Submitted by jaynine

"This is the one meatloaf that both my husband and my kids like. I usually have all the ingredients on hand, which makes it easy to throw together when I haven't been shopping lately."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 slices whole wheat bread (or can use 2 each rye and white)
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 medium onion, chopped (can reduce this to make more kid-friendly)
• 4 sprigs parsley or 2 teaspoons dried parsley
• 3 tablespoons parmesan cheese
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 teaspoon oregano

directions

1. Soak bread in 1 cup water in large bowl for several minutes, then mash bread with fork.
2. Add ground beef, onion, parsley, Parmesan cheese, egg, salt and pepper; mix well.
3. Place in loaf pan and bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
4. Pour tomato sauce over meatloaf and sprinkle with oregano.
5. Bake 25 minutes longer.

Reviews

[CindiJ]

This was pretty darn good. I goofed and it work as I added the tomato sauce to the meat mixture. Made it very moist. I used the last of my fresh basil over the top of the meat loaf in the final 10 minutes of baking.