Meat Loaf

By: Michelle Beran 

"If you're looking for a hearty meal, just follow Michelle Beran's lead. The Claflin, Kansas cook whips up this delicious loaf when she's looking for a downsized main course. You'll love the pleasant sage flavor and scrumptious sauce. Plus, it's easy to double for sandwiches the next day."

Ingredients

• 1     egg
• 1/4  cup 2% milk
• 1/3  cup crushed saltine crackers
• 3     tablespoons chopped onion
• 1/4  teaspoon salt
• 1/8  teaspoon rubbed sage
• Dash pepper
• 1/2  pound lean ground beef
• 1/4  cup ketchup
• 2     tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/4  teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Directions

1. In a bowl, beat the egg. Add milk, cracker crumbs, onion, salt, sage and pepper. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into two loaves; place in a shallow baking dish coated with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Combine the ketchup, brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce; spoon over meat loaves. Bake at 350 degrees F for 40-45 minutes or until meat is no longer pink and a meat thermometer reads 160 degrees F; drain

Footnotes

• Nutritional Analysis: 1 meat loaf equals 337 calories, 12 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 162 mg cholesterol, 898 mg sodium, 31 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 27 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 2 starch.
  
  
  source allrecipes.com