Pork Meat Loaf
Easy to cook pork meat loaf recipe.
Ingredients
- 3 pcs carrots
- 3tbsp tbsp olive oil
- 1 package bread crumbs
- 1 Kg ground pork
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 60 grams cream cheese diced into small pieces
- 1 pc egg
- 3 pcs red bell peppers sliced lengthwise
- 2 pcs onion finely chopped
- 4 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 1 package 250g Del Monte Italian Style Spaghetti sauce
- 60 grams Cheddar cheese grated
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF.
- Peel the carrots, quarter lengthways, then place in a roasting tray (roughly 25cm x 30cm), drizzle with oil and cook for 10 minutes.
- Use your hands to mix in a bowl the pork, breadcrumbs, half the oregano, the cream cheese, the egg and a good pinch of sea salt and black pepper.
- Shape into a loaf (roughly 20cm long), then, when the time’s up on the carrots, make a space in the middle of the tray and add the meatloaf. Cook for a further 25 minutes, or until the meatloaf is golden and cooked through.
- In a pan, heat oil and then put the onion and garlic with the remaining oregano and fry for about 10 minutes, or until softened, stirring regularly. Add the bell peppers and cook for 1 minute.
- Pour in the spaghetti sauce and let simmer until the meatloaf is cooked.
- Remove the tray from the oven and carefully pour the sauce around the meatloaf. Pull the carrots to the top of the sauce and arrange around the meatloaf with the red bell pepperss, then grate the Cheddar on top.
- Put back the meatloaf into the oven for a further 5 to 10 minutes, or until golden, and the sauce is bubbling.
- Once done, slice the meatloaf and use as topping for rice.