5-Ingredient Meatloaf

by Sabrina Snyder

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8 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
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This 5-Ingredient Meatloaf recipe makes this classic dinner so easy, tasty, and sure to become part of your family dinner routine.

If you like our Classic Meatloaf Recipe, this is a simplified version for the perfect easy Dinner that you can make for any weeknight. Plus it’s made with a budget friendly secret ingredient that cuts your grocery list in half!

Sabrina’s 5-Ingredient Meatloaf Recipe

This 5-Ingredient Easy Meatloaf recipe comes together in minutes and won’t break the bank! It does take an hour to bake, but the hands-on time is mostly mixing and shaping, there’s no chopping at all. That’s all thanks to my secret ingredient of using boxed stuffing mix. This is a cheap pantry staple that’s already seasoned so you cut your prep time AND ingredient list down to almost nothing. And yes, to be perfectly honest, this Meatloaf recipe technically has seven ingredients. However, two of those are just a bit of salt and pepper for extra flavor and you could cut them out if the stuffing mix is flavorful enough for your taste!

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5-Ingredient Meatloaf Recipe

This 5-Ingredient Meatloaf recipe makes this classic dinner so easy, tasty, and sure to become part of your family dinner routine.
Yield 8 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
Slices of meatloaf on dinner plate with mashed potatoes and asparagus.
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Ingredients
 

  • 1/3 cup whole milk
  • 6 ounces Stovetop Stuffing , (1 box)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
  • 1 1/2 pounds ground beef , (85/15)

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a large bowl whisk together the milk and stuffing, then let rest until the milk is absorbed.
  • Whisk in the eggs, half the ketchup, salt and black pepper.
  • Add in the beef and mix with your hands until the ingredients are combined, then add to a 9×5 loaf pan.
  • Spread remaining ketchup over the meatloaf evenly.
  • Bake, uncovered, for 60-65 minutes on a baking sheet (to prevent oil from spilling over into the oven).

Nutrition

Calories: 260kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 106mg | Sodium: 606mg | Potassium: 343mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 228IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 2mg

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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