This recipe is a great way to use up extra squash from your garden. Cute pattypan squash are cooked with a bacon and cheese stuffing. These are what my kids eat and call “squash volcanoes.” Enjoy!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 pounds lean ground beef
- 1 cup pasta sauce
- ½ cup Italian-style bread crumbs, or more as needed
- ¼ cup minced onion
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 large cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese, or more to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Thoroughly mix beef, pasta sauce, bread crumbs, onion, ketchup, egg, garlic, oregano, salt, and ground black pepper together using your hands in a large bowl.
- Spread 1/2 the meat mixture into the bottom of a loaf pan. Spread mozzarella cheese over the center of the meat. Spread remaining meat mixture over the cheese, pressing edges of meat together on the sides to seal in the cheese.
- Bake in the preheated oven until meat is no longer pink in the center, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 466 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 17 g |
| Cholesterol | 155 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 40 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 932 mg |
| Sugars | 7 g |
| Fat | 26 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Great recipe, I decided to throw pepperoni cut into 4ths and black olives into the meat mixture also, turned out wonderful !!! Thx
Added green pepper
This meatloaf is easy to make and surprised those in the family that thought they could not like meatloaf. Everyone enjoyed it. Thanks for the recipe
it is great
Really good. Used fresh sliced mozzarella
I searched for this because I had mozerella, but no cheddar needed for the Ribbon Meat Loaf from this side. We love Italian, and this quickly helped me to enjoy meat loaf, what I NEVER had. My husband ate so much I was worried we would have a Meatloaf Explosion!!
Delizioso! My family enjoyed this one. I didn’t have as much mozzarella as I thought so I had to sub in a little cheddar. Yum. I only used the 1/2 cup bread crumbs as in the recipe and I think it was the perfect amount. It turned out very moist however it was swimming in grease when it came out so I removed it from the loaf pan quickly. I liked using tomato sauce, thought it added a nice zip to the meatloaf. Thanks Lori!
We found the meatloaf to be very flavorful. I absorbed the grease with paper towels.
Tastes great but very oily and messy. I think I’ll stick with regular meatloaf instead of stuffed with cheese.