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Healthy Slow-Cooked Meat Loaf Recipe

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What could be easier than this recipe for an Italian-inspired meat loaf made in the slow cooker? No fuss, easy cleanup and great taste; it's all right here! —Sharon Delaney-Chronis, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Healthy Slow-Cooked Meat Loaf Recipe

Prep: 15 min. Cook: 3 hours

Yield: 8 Servings

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Ingredients

1 cup soft bread crumbs
1-1/2 cups spaghetti sauce, divided
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons dried minced onion
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 pounds lean ground beef (90% lean)

Directions

Cut four 20-in. x 3-in. strips of heavy-duty foil; crisscross so they resemble spokes of a wheel. Place strips on the bottom and up the sides of a 3-qt. slow cooker. Coat strips with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine the bread crumbs, 1 cup spaghetti sauce, egg, onion, and seasonings. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into a loaf; place in the center of the strips.
Spoon remaining spaghetti sauce over meat loaf. Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours or until a thermometer reads 160°. Using foil strips as handles, remove meat loaf to a platter. Yield: 8 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 slice equals 243 calories, 12 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 98 mg cholesterol, 635 mg sodium, 8 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 24 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1 fat, 1/2 starch.

Originally published as Slow-Cooked Meat Loaf in Healthy Cooking April/May 2010, p44

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Reviewed on Jul. 04, 2012 by BataviaRussell

delicious, moist and SO easy to do! Loved it!!

Reviewed on Jan. 06, 2012 by letahapp

This sounds like a good recipe. I would use a slow cooker bag inplace of the foil strips.

Reviewed on Jan. 05, 2012 by taffysugar

I hesitate to try this recipe due to aluminum strips used to line slow cooker. Acidic tomato sauce and foil don`t mix in my opinion

Reviewed on May. 24, 2011 by NJ_mommy_1

This meatloaf was good! Since my family is on a low sodium diet I used half of low sodium spaghetti sauce and half of the regular spaghetti sauce and it still tasted good. I also did not use salt. Thanks for the recipe. Will use again :-)

Reviewed on Aug. 30, 2010 by tthorsen

My husband doesn't usually care for meat loaf but he liked this one. It was very easy and did cook for us in 3.5 hours. I was pleasantly surprised that it tasted like meatloaf with just a slight Italian edge. I was afraid the spaghetti sauce would be overpowering.

Reviewed on Jul. 15, 2010 by nancydh

Very tasty but took longer to cook than the suggested 3-4 hours in my slow cooker - about 6 hours at low

Reviewed on Apr. 11, 2010 by idiot54

flavor is very good but the texture was a little to smooth for us. Next time we are adding chopped onions. But there will be a next time, very easy for a busy day.