Weekend Recipe: Turkey Meatloaf, Spinach salad, baked sweet potato

Friday Recipe: Turkey meatloaf, Spinach salad and Baked sweet potato

What you will need.

For the Turkey Meatloaf
1 lb of ground turkey, no brand in particular use what you have.
1 medium size onion, I like Vidalia onions but use what you have.
2 slices of multigrain or wheat bread, you can use whatever bread you have if you don’t have multigrain or wheat bread.
1 smallish green pepper
1 green apple
BBQ sauce
Ketchup
Adobo (red top) seasoning, which I use a lot but if you can salt & pepper in the place of Adobo
Garlic powder
Loaf pan

If you like spinach, but if not go with whatever salad fixins you have
So if you want to go with my salad you will need:

1 bag of spinach
1 back of iceberg salad mix
Parmesan Cheese
Grape tomatoes

A few Sweet potatoes depending on how many people are in your family.

Start with the Meatloaf
Peel the green apple and chop it up very fine, then chop up the onion and the green pepper. Add the chopped apple, onion and green pepper to a mixing bowl with the ground turkey. Mix everything together.

Then mix together in a separate bowl about ½ cup of BBQ sauce and ½ cup of ketchup. Add ONLY half of that to the turkey mixture. Put aside the other ½ of the bbq/ketchup sauce mixture for later. Then chop up the bread and add that to the mixture. Sprinkle a bit of Adobo and garlic powder. Just a bit not a lot, a light dusting.

Pre heat your oven to 350 degrees

Spray your pan with cooking spray; if you don’t have cooking spray use a light coating of cooking oil. Add you ground turkey mixture, shape it like a meatloaf. ☺

Put your meatloaf in the oven. Then wash then wrap your sweet potatoes’ in foil and put them on a cookie sheet. Keep both in the turkey meatloaf and the sweet potatoes in the oven for about 1 -1/2 hours. Take the Meatloaf out add the rest of the sauce mixture to the top then cook it for another 15 minutes or so.

Take everything out and chow down.

I usually would eat the sweet potato plain without butter, but you can add butter and a bit of cinnamon if you like. A bit of Caesar or peppercorn ranch dressing for the salad would be good but again, use what you have. The meatloaf should be really moist and yummy.

Let me know how you make out…take pictures and post them on the Facebook Fan Page. http://www.Facebook.com/AniseSmithMarketing