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Home / Recipes / Main Dishes / Easter Meatloaf

Easter Meatloaf

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

I like to cook meatloaf in small containers because doing it in one large pan takes absolutely forever to bake. Since I had been playing around with Easter decorations anyway, I grabbed pastel ramekins, cooked my mini-meatloafs in them, and proceeded to experiment with different dish, flatware, table linen configurations. Do you have a favorite? The ingredients and recipe for the meatloafs are at the bottom.

And did you know you could place your meatloaf ramekins into your air fryer and cook them there with just two minutes preheating time and about 1/3 less cooking time?

Easter Meatloaf

Easter Meatloaf

Easter Meatloaf

Easter Meatloaf

Ingredients:

  • Ground beef
  • Ground pork (optional — you can do it completely with ground beef)
  • Bread crumbs (I used crumbs from my low carb croutons)
  • Italian seasoning
  • Green or red bell pepper (or both)
  • Onion
  • Worcestershire sauce
  • Eggs
  • Green onion
  • Shredded cheeses or ketchup for garnish

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Easter Meatloaf - Step 1
Place the meat into a large bowl. Add in your bread crumbs and a good amount of Italian seasoning.

Easter Meatloaf - Step 2
Chop your peppers up and finely chop your onion. Add to the bowl. (Looking at this now, I’m wondering what I was thinking. Trust me, you don’t want this much pepper and onion.)

Easter Meatloaf - Step 3
Shake in a generous amount of Worcestershire sauce. If you like it as much as I do, that’s a lot! Add your eggs. (For 2-3 pounds of meat, I use a couple of eggs.)

Easter Meatloaf - Step 4
Mince some green onion. You can add some to the meatloaf, but reserve a bunch for garnish, too. Mix well. (Yes, of course I have my gloves on — but don’t they have cute leopard ruffles?)

Easter Meatloaf - Step 5
Finish mixing all ingredients together. Use a big scoop and scoop the mixture into your ramekins, then start to pat down.

Easter Meatloaf - Step 6
Once you have loaded all the ramekins, check to ensure you have substantially equal amounts in each one, then make a thumbprint in the middle of each so you don’t get domes on your meatloaf. Pop them into the oven.

Easter Meatloaf - Step 7
You will need to bake them somewhere between 20 and 40 minutes, depending upon the size of the containers. Halfway through the cooking process, blot the grease out of the thumbprint area with paper towels. 5 or 10 minutes before you think they will be done, sprinkle on your shredded cheese and green onions, or squirt on some ketchup. I like to do a variety. Some people have strong opinions about what they like.

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