Cheese Stuffed Meat Loaf

Name: Cheese Stuffed Meat Loaf
Prep time: 1 h 35 min
Cook time: 1 h 35 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 egg; 680 grams extra-lean (at least 93%) ground beef; 510 grams can Progresso® Vegetable Classics French onion soup; 0 teaspoons pepper; 255 grams slices each) provolone cheese; 177 milliliters gluten-free white rice flour cracker crumbs (from 4.4 oz box crackers); 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoons thyme leaves

Cheese Stuffed Meat Loaf requires around 1 hour and 35 minutes from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains roughly 44g of protein, 18g of fat, and a total of 638 calories. This recipe covers 29% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. If you have rice flour cracker crumbs, thyme leaves, vegetable classics onion soup, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the egg you could follow this main course with the Rose Levy Beranbaum's Chocolate Tomato Cake with Mystery Ganache as a dessert. It works well as a pretty expensive main course.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir cracker crumbs and 1 cup of the soup until well mixed; let stand 10 minutes.

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Cracker Crumbs

Soup

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Bowl

Oven

Add beef, salt, thyme, pepper and egg to cracker crumb mixture until well mixed.

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Cracker Crumbs

Pepper

Thyme

Beef

Salt

Egg

Spread half of beef mixture into ungreased 8x4-or 9x5- inch loaf pan.

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Spread

Beef

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Loaf Pan

Cut 3 slices of the cheese into 1/2-inch strips. Arrange strips in center of loaf to within 1/2-inch of sides and ends of pan. Top cheese with remaining beef mixture covering completely to sides of pan.

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Cheese

Beef

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Frying Pan

Insert ovenproof meat thermometer so tip is in center of loaf.

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Meat

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Kitchen Thermometer

Bake uncovered 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes or until beef is no longer pink in center and thermometer reads 160°F. Arrange remaining cheese slices, overlapping, on top of meat loaf. Top cheese with 1/4 cup of the remaining soup (making sure to get onion pieces).

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Cheese

Onion