Let’s Pretend It’s Meatloaf

Remember how I told you I’m trying to make “clean eating” food taste like yummy (“high-sugar-salt-fat-processed-food-that-is-really-bad-for-you-but-tastes-good”) food?  Well, here is my newest experiment:

Lisa’s Let’s Pretend It’s Meatloaf Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 slice whole wheat bread.  (If you are a gluten-free person, Ezekiel bread has some good varieties and can be found in the frozen section of your grocery store.)
• 1 pound ground turkey (97/3 lean).  (If you are really hardcore, you can go 99/1 lean, but where’s the fun in that?)
• 1 egg white
• 1/4 cup water.  (If you want to make the recipe a little dirty, add some beer instead of water, but don’t tell my trainer I told you that…And if you’re my trainer reading this – I used water.)
• 1/4 cup red peppers
• 4 fresh sage leaves.  (You are supposed to roll them before you dice them.  These are from my friend Obidia’s garden.  If you don’t have a friend who grows herbs in her garden, feel free to use 1/2 teaspoon dried sage.)

  

  

• 1 tablespoon parsley
• 1/4 cup onion
• 1/2 teaspoon natural sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse pepper
• 2 tablespoons sugar free ketchup.  I found mine in the diabetic section of the grocery store.  Regular ketchup has a lot of sugar in it (who knew?)

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.  Cut up bread into cubes and put them in the oven to toast while it is preheating.  Crush them into crumbs when they are toasted.

3.  In a mixing bowl combine egg whites, water, onions, red peppers, sage, parsley, bread crumbs, salt and pepper, and ground turkey.

4.  In a shallow baking dish, spray with non-stick spray and pat in mixture.

5.  Bake in a 350 degree oven for 40 minutes, or until no pink remains.  Serve with 2 tablespoons of sugar free catsup.  Makes 4 servings.

And how does it taste?  Actually, pretty good.  You can trust me when I tell you that, because not all my clean eating kitchen experiments work out.

How about you?  Is there a clean eating dinner recipe you like?

Lisa 

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