All the Trimmings Thanksgiving Meatloaf
Is your family tradition a full on Turkey dinner with all of the trimmings? You know, Roasted Turkey, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, perhaps with cranberry sauce to sweeten things up.
That is how I think of it as well, big bird roasting in the oven, sides cooking in various pots and pans, savory smells wafting through the house, me missing the game … again.
Just imagine trying to pull this off at the game! I know, many people do this, but really there has to be a better way!
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One grill/oven, one cast iron pan
One grill/oven, one cast iron pan and all of the trimmings in one serving, hence the creation of my “All the trimmings Thanksgiving Meatloaf”. My simple, savory and filling, one dish Turkey dinner.
Just add gravy!
A perfect solution for the big game tailgate party with your friends or any event that requires simplicity to maximize your family time.
As featured in Tailgater Monthly Nov/Dec issue: http://tailgater.scout.com/
Tastemade/Hyundai Grill Iron Show: https://tr.im/TMHyund10
- 20 oz ground turkey meat
- 8oz ground sausage
- ½ package of onion soup mix
- 1 tbs Dalmatian sage
- ½ tsp ground rainbow pepper
- 1 egg
- ½ cup bread crumbs
- ½ cup sweeten dried cranberries
- 1 cup ready made stuffing mix
- 2 c mashed potatoes
- 1 cast iron loaf pan or equivalent
- wax paper
- Mix together the ground turkey, ground sausage, onion soup mix, sage, pepper, egg and bread crumbs until well blended.
- Spread meatloaf mixture on a sheet of wax paper into a rectangular shape no wider than your loaf pan and about 12” long.
- Spread the cranberries onto the center of the meatloaf in a line across the shortest width.
- Spread the dressing on top of the cranberries.
- Carefully roll one side of the meatloaf towards the center using the wax paper to help keep the meat together.
- Roll the other side across to meet at the top of the loaf.
- Gently press the seams together to make a round log with the stuffing and cranberries in the center. No need to close up the ends.
- Spray loaf pan with a light coating of spray oil.
- Place the meatloaf into the loaf pan, sen side down and press into place so the loaf is fairly flat on the top.
- Spread your mashed potatoes over top top of the meatloaf to cover.
- Bake at 350° F till the center reaches 165° F.
- Serve with your favorite vegetable side and gravy.
- Note: If using a grill, set it up for indirect heat.
Video Transcript:
Presenter: Hey, everyone.
Today, we’re going to be making Thanksgiving dinner in one bite, on the Cooking Everything Outdoors show.
Announcer: The Cooking Everything Outdoors show is sponsored by Camp Chef, and www.OutdoorCooking.com, and www.IslandGrillstone.com.
Presenter: Thanksgiving dinner in one bite, Thanksgiving meatloaf, yup it’s true, I’ve put a Thanksgiving dinner into a meatloaf and it took a little while to get it right, but I think I nailed this recipe.
In fact, it’s so good in my opinion and Tailgater Magazine’s opinion that they featured it in their magazine in the November-December issue and that is another reason why I’m sharing this video with you now because I want to show you exactly how easy it is to make and how wonderful it is to enjoy.
Preparation and equipment wise, you really don’t need that much.
I’m going to be using the Camp Chef outdoor oven.
You can use your indoor oven.
You can use a gas grill or a charcoal grill, any of those will work just fine.
What you have to keep in mind is that we’re baking.
So no matter what you’re using no direct bottom heat so you don’t burn this.
I’m also going to be using a loaf pan.
And this is cast iron, which I really, really like and I think it imparts a nice traditional flavor to it.
Traditional is probably not the right word, but it does impart a flavor that you just don’t get from the tin ones.
Now it doesn’t take a lot of ingredients to put this together, but it’s best if you have either some leftovers or take a few minutes to prepare this.
So I have some stuffing that I’ve prepared and some mashed potatoes.
And now I’m going to show you how to put all these together.
Ingredients-wise this is really simple.
You’re going to need some ground turkey.
You’ll need some stuffing ready to go, some breadcrumbs, some dried cranberries, mashed potatoes, onion soup mix, some Dalmatian sage, some ground pepper and 1 egg.
The exact ingredients and measurements will be in the about section below or on my website.
We’ll set aside the mashed potatoes and the stuffing.
So I want to add my ground turkey, my breadcrumbs, my onion soup mix, Dalmatian sage, my pepper and 1 egg.
So we’re now just need to get in here and mix all these up.
You really got to get in there with your hands.
Now that this is mixed together thoroughly, we want to lay out some wax paper.
We’ll get the loaf out.
What we want to do is we’re going to form the loaf in a flat rectangle, approximately the width of our loaf pan.
That’s really important that you do it that way.
And we’re looking for a rectangle, it’s going to be about 6” x 10” would be a good estimate there.
That might even go 12 inches.
Now we want to lay out our stuffing, which you’re going to imagine this is going to be a big roll with the stuffing and the cranberry inside.
Doesn’t have to be packed.
That’s about 1 cup right there.
Now we’re going to take our cranberries and we’re going to put a nice layer of those there.
Now these are dried and sweetened.
You can get them unsweetened.
I actually like the little bit of sweetness, because it parallels the cranberry sauce.
This is the tricky part.
We need to get this in there in a roll.
So what I like to do is I like to roll mine up and as best as possible get that seam pinched.
Once we have it like that, you can very carefully flip it over so its seam’s side down and remove your wax paper, and then give a final press to shape your loaf in there.
And this should be a good 3 quarters to 1 inch below flip.
Just like that.
Pretty darned simple, right?
Now we need to put our final ingredient on and that’s our mashed potatoes.
And I just pile them in there.
And you notice that I’ve used red potatoes that I just love and I left the skins on which I just love.
You can do the creamy white mashed potatoes, if you’d like, with no skin.
There is no requirement.
And that’s it.
That’s basically what we’re looking for.
You can pretty these up as however you like.
Okay, now you want to put this into a 350-degree preheated oven.
The important thing here is that you understand that we’re cooking with, number one, turkey, and it’s stuffed.
And those two ingredients combined together require an internal temperature of a 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Anytime you stuff anything it has to be cooked to 165 to be safe.
So I like to use a thermometer probe on mind and I’m just going to judge as best I can and get that in there.
Baking time, until we hit 165 degrees, it should be about 45 minutes.
Okay, at about 58 minutes exactly, took a little bit longer.
It’s kind of cool outdoors, so that’s going to happen.
I hit a 164 degrees and I want to pull it now.
Look at that.
That is beautiful.
So you’re going to want to let this rest for a little while.
15 or 20 minutes would be just about right before we start slicing into it.
I’m going to get those juices redistributing back into it.
While that’s happening I’m going to whip up a little bit of gravy and we’ll serve this bad boy up.
And I just got a little rustic gravy I made here, full lumps and everything, but for our purposes it’s perfect.
And now we need to get in here and get us a good chunk of our Thanksgiving dinner and a meat loaf.
The first slice is always a little challenging to get out.
And you can see the mashed potatoes there, the turkey, the stuffing, the cranberries.
And really, only thing you need now is a little bit of green beans and you’ve got it.
So if you’re tailgating, if you’re camping, if you’re home alone, knock this bad boy out because it is full of great flavor, great taste, great bites.
It tastes just like a Thanksgiving dinner.
So that’s it for me, I‘m out of here.
Go check out the November-December issue of Tailgater Magazine.
You’ll see my article there.
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And happy Thanksgiving!
