Savoury Mince or Meatloaf

This is easy to adapt for whatever you have - it came out of me being too sick to go shopping! A food processor is great for mixing and grating, and my kids LOVED it. Good ingredients to beat flu (all measurements are approximate, due to what I had in the fridge!)

• Ready In: 1 hr 55 mins
• Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

• 800  g  mincemeat (use any meat or perhaps fish; can use eggplant, pumpkin, potatoes, tofu, tempeh etc to make a vegeta)
• 2  carrots
• 2  celery ribs
• 1  zucchini
• 4  leaves spinach or 4  leaves silver beet
• 1 -2  clove garlic
• 4  mushrooms
• 1  onions or 1  spring onion
• 1  can chopped tomato (can be herb flavoured)
• 2  cups  breadcrumbs (rice breadcrumbs for gluten-free)
• 1 -2  cup milk (rice or soy for allergies)
• 1⁄2 jar tomato paste
•  dry crushed red pepper
•  chili, herb
• 4  tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 -4  cups  left over rice or 3 -4  cups pasta
• 1  egg, for binding (optional)
•  grated cheese (if no allergies) (optional)

• FOR TOPPING

• 1⁄4-1⁄2 jar tomato paste
•  honey or  brown sugar

Directions

1. Mix meat,crumbs and milk.
2. Grate all vegetables (can use any of your favourites) and garlic.
3. Mix meat and vegetables, tinned tomatoes, tomato paste, soy sauce, any herbs and spices, and rice (can also use oats).
4. Spread in an oven loaf tin, and pat down.
5. For the topping, either mix together the tomato paste and honey, or drizzle honey over meat, then top with a thickish layer of tomato paste.
6. Bake in moderate oven for approximately 1 1/2 hours, or until meat is cooked.