I try to make my daily menu for a few days so I don't have to think about what to cook when I'm busy and only have limited time to prepare dinner after work. I always ask my daughter to help me with meal planning so she can eat meals that she lives. She has requested for this dish a few days ago. And I said I will do some groceries today and will be getting ingredients for this dish.
Meatloaf is a dish composed of minced or ground meat with minced vegetables and a binder, usually egg and flour or breadcrumbs. It's origin is in western and northern Europe particularly Germany, Belgium and Scandinavian countries (Norway, Denmark and Sweden). Countries all over the world have their own version of the meatloaf. In Philippines, we call it embotido. In the US, it is baked with tomato sauce on top to form a crust when baking. It is often eaten with mashed potato and gravy or cream of mushroom.
I usually steam my embotido (meatloaf), but to be different and to achieve the crust on top, I opted to bake it instead. And since I stay away from pork, which is usually the main ingredient in meatloaf, I substituted it with ground turkey. I have used ground turkey several times in my embotido recipe and so far there were no complaints that the taste is different.
So my recipe for turkey meatloaf is almost the same as my embotido recipe.
Ingredients
1 lb ground turkey
1 pc onion, chopped
1 cup cheese
1/2 cup flour
2 pcs hard boiled eggs, cut into wedges
1 pc egg
1/2 cup sweet relish
1 cup dried cranberries or raisins
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1 pc carrot, finely chopped
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
butter to coat the baking pan
Procedure
In a bowl, combine all ingredients except for boiled eggs and butter. Refrigerate for a few hours.
Pre heat oven to 350 °F.
Coat the pan with butter, add half of the meatloaf.
Layer the boiled eggs evenly, then add the rest of the meatloaf. For crust, add tomato sauce on top.
Bake for 50 minutes.
Serve with mashed potato and gravy.
