A New Recipe for Meatloaf with Herbdacious

Savory meatloaf with sauteed onions, topped with a delicious sun-dried tomato and roasted red pepper sauce. This is a flavor-packed recipe that is great with just about anything. For dinner, we paired this Meatloaf with Herbdacious with baked sweet potatoes served with cinnamon butter.

Meatloaf with Herbdacious and baked sweet potato

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This Meatloaf recipe with Herbdacious is so tasty. The blend of the fresh herbs with the sun-dried tomato and kalamata olives comes together so well. The end result is a flavor packed Meatloaf with bold flavors and freshness from the herbs. With the roasted garlic and sauteed onions, they both bring a complexity to the finish dinner.

A New Recipe for Meatloaf with Herbdacious

Ingredients for Meatloaf with Herbdacious

1 Tablespoon oil
2 large yellow onions, diced
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 cup (7.5-oz jar) sun-dried tomatoes, with oil
1 1/2 cups (12-oz jar) roasted red peppers, drained
2 Tablespoons red wine vinegar
2 eggs
1/2 cup Greek Yogurt OR sour cream
2 Tablespoons Honey
2/3 cup Herbdacious
1 cup pitted and chopped kalamata olives
2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 1/2 pounds ground beef
1/2 cup breadcrumbs OR crushed saltine crackers

Ingredients for Meatloaf with Herbdacious

Directions for Meatloaf with Herbdacious

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Warm a 10-inch skillet on medium heat. I chose to use a cast iron skillet to sauté the onions for this recipe.

skillet warming on stovetop

To the skillet, add the oil and heat until just smoking.

warm oil in skillet

While the oil and skillet hert, dice the 2 onions on a cutting board.

diced onions on wood cutting board

Add the onions to the hot skillet and then sauté the onions for 10 minutes until translucent and soft.

place diced onions in warm skillet

Season the onions with 1 tsp salt and pepper, stir to mix, and then turn off the heat to let the onions cool until needed.

sauté onions and season with salt and pepper

Add parchment paper or foil to a 9 X 13-inch baking pan.

parchment paper in baking pan

Drain the roasted red peppers in a strainer before blending in a blender.

roasted red peppers in strainer

Blend the Topping

Combine the sun-dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, honey vinegar, and 1/2 tsp salt in a blender.

ingredients to go in the blender

Blend the ingredients until completely smooth. You can also use a Cuisinart Food Processor with the blade attachment to blend these ingredients.

On a cutting board, roughly chop the pitted kalamata olives.

In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, Greek Yogurt OR sour cream, Worcestershire sauce, Herbdacious, kalamata olives, and cooled onions.

Meatloaf with Herbdacious filling

Add the ground beef to the bowl with the Herbdacious and other ingredients.

add ground beef to filling ingredients in bowl for Meatloaf with Herbdacious

Measure and crush the saltine crackers, adding them to the bowl.

add crushed saltine crackers to Meatloaf with Herbdacious ingredients

Gently mix the ingredients in the bowl, not too much to overwork the ingredients, but enough to spread out the ingredients.

Spray the baking pan with the parchment paper with non-stick spray.

Dump the meat mixture on the parchment paper in the baking dish.

dump ingredients in prepared pan

Shape the meat into a rectangle block, around 3 X 3 X 12-inches.

form Meatloaf with Herbdacious into rectangle

Top the Meatloaf

Spread the tomato mixture over the top of the meatloaf, taking care to spread it over all the sides.
It does seem like the sauce is a lot, but trust me, it’s worth it!

Bake the Meatloaf with Herbdacious in the oven, on the middle rack, for 1 hour, or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.

For dinner tonight, we had baked sweet potatoes with steamed Brussel Sprouts. I got the idea to make baked sweet potatoes from a restaurant our family was at in Tennessee for a recent vacation.

bake Meatloaf with Herbdacious in the oven for 1 hour

If desired, turn the oven to broil and let the tomato sauce become slightly browned before removing the pan from the oven. This can take between 1-2 minutes. Finally, remove the Meatloaf from the oven and let it rest for 3-5 minutes before serving.

cooked Meatloaf with Herbdacious

This recipe, Meatloaf with Herbdacious, was one of the most complex flavors I’ve ever tasted. Our kids absolutely LOVED it and they all requested to have it be part of a monthly rotation.

Between the complexity of the Herbdacious, mixed in with the Meatloaf with perfectly sauteed onions and salty kalamata olives, come together to make this a stunningly delicious dinner.


Keep a look out for the recipe for the BEST Baked Sweet Potatoes with Homemade From Scratch Cinnamon Butter that is the BEST Texas Roadhouse copycat!
~Monica

Meatloaf with Herbdacious with Brussel Sprouts and Baked Sweet Potatoes

Meatloaf with Herbdacious Recipe

A New Recipe for Meatloaf with Herbdacious

Savory meatloaf with sauteed onions, topped with a delicious sun-dried tomato and roasted red pepper sauce. This is a flavor-packed recipe that is great with just about anything.
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4

Equipment

  • 1 Blender
  • Baking Pan 9 X 13-inch
  • Parchment Paper
  • 1 Bowl Large

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Tbsp Oil extra virgin
  • 2 Onions Diced
  • 2 1/2 tsp Kosher Salt
  • 1 tsp Ground Black Pepper
  • 1/2 cup Sun-dried tomatoes (7.5-ounce jar) with oil
  • 1 1/2 cups Roasted Red Peppers drained
  • 2 Tbsp Honey
  • 2 Tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt OR Sour Cream
  • 2/3 cup Herbdacious
  • 1 cup Kalamata Olives pitted, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 2 1/2 pounds Ground Beef
  • 1/2 cup Breadcrumbs OR Crushed Saltine Crackers

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
  • Warm a 10-inch skillet on medium heat.
  • Dice the 2 onions.
  • Sauté the onions for 10 minutes until translucent and soft.
  • Season the onions with 1 tsp salt and pepper.
  • Add parchment paper to a 9 X 13-inch baking pan.
  • Combine the sun-dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, honey vinegar, and 1/2 tsp salt in a blender.
  • Blend the ingredients until smooth.
  • On a cutting board, roughly chop the kalamata olives.
  • Measure and then crush the saltine crackers, then set aside.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, Greek Yogurt, Herbdacious, kalamata olives, beef, crushed saltine crackers, and remaining 1 tsp salt.
  • Gently mix the ingredients in the bowl, not too much to overwork the ingredients.
  • Spray the baking pan with the parchment paper with non-stick spray.
  • Dump the meat mixture on the parchment paper in the baking dish.
  • Shape the meat into a rectangle block, around 3 X 3 X 12-inches.
  • Spread the tomato mixture over the top of the meatloaf, taking care to spread it over all the sides.
  • Bake the Meatloaf with Herbdacious in the oven, on the middle rack, for 1 hour, or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Remove the Meatloaf from the oven and let it rest for 3-5 minutes before serving.
Keyword Dinner, Dinner Ideas, Kalamata Olives, Meatloaf

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