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Meat Loaf with Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Mother often prepared this for supper after Sunday services. Sweet potatoes are a traditional part of Southern cooking. - Kay Goins, Church Hill, Tennessee

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Meat Loaf with Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Prep: 15 min. Bake: 65 min.

Yield: 8 Servings

15 65 80

Ingredients

1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
1 egg
2 cups crushed butter-flavored crackers (about 50 crackers), divided
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 teaspoons salt
2 pounds lean ground beef
1 can (23 ounces) cut sweet potatoes, drained
1/2 cup molasses
4 bacon strips

Directions

In a large bowl, combine the tomato sauce, egg, 1/2 cup of cracker crumbs, green pepper, onion and salt. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into a loaf in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes; drain. Combine sweet potatoes and molasses; roll potatoes in remaining crumbs. Add potatoes to the pan; place bacon strips over meat loaf. Bake 30 minutes longer or until the meat is no longer pink and a meat thermometer reads 160°. Yield: 8 servings.

Instead of a 23-ounce can of sweet potatoes, use four medium fresh sweet potatoes that have been peeled, cut and cooked.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 477 calories, 22 g fat (7 g saturated fat), 103 mg cholesterol, 1,079 mg sodium, 43 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 26 g protein.

Originally published as Meat Loaf with Sweet Potatoes in Taste of Home Ground Beef Cookbook , p41

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Reviewed on Dec. 14, 2007 by keverwann

The meatloaf portion of this is great! The sweet potatoes have _way_ too much molasses and did not add any flavor to the meatloaf. I'd make the meatloaf again, but leave out the sweet potato portion.