Italian-Style Meat Loaf

Name: Italian-Style Meat Loaf
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons black pepper; 1 teaspoons dried basil; 2 larges egg whites; 79 milliliters chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley; 1 teaspoon garlic powder; 118 milliliters Italian-seasoned breadcrumbs; 680 grams 92% lean ground beef; 118 milliliters finely chopped onion; 1 teaspoons dried oregano; 57 grams 1/2 cup preshredded fresh Parmesan cheese; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters fat-free tomato-basil pasta sauce, divided

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Italian-Style Meat Loaf a try. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. One serving contains 260 calories, 31g of protein, and 9g of fat. Head to the store and pick up pepper, onion, egg whites, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

Combine beef, 1/2 cup pasta sauce, and remaining ingredients except cooking spray in a large bowl. Shape beef mixture into an 8 x 4-inch loaf on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Pasta Sauce

Beef

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Bowl

Brush remaining 1/2 cup pasta sauce over top of meat loaf.

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Pasta Sauce

Meat

Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a thermometer registers 16

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Oven

Let stand 10 minutes.

Cut loaf into 12 slices.

Wine Note: Anything Italian-style seems like a candidate for Chianti, but with a humble meat loaf like this, I like something more full-bodied. A California syrah has enough concentration to mirror the density of the ground beef, and it makes the meat loaf seem just a bit grander. Try Arrowood's Grand Archer 2001 Syrah from Sonoma County, California (about $20). -Karen MacNeil

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Ground Beef