Cheesy Meatloaf

⏱ 70 mins 🍽 1 loaf, 4 serving(s) 🏷 Meat

This meatloaf recipe offers a unique cheesy flavour by incorporating crushed Cheetos snacks into the ground beef mixture along with onion soup mix. The loaf is shaped over a layer of ketchup, topped with more, and then baked until cooked through. It yields one loaf, suitable for four servings, and takes about 70 minutes from start to finish.

Cheesy Meatloaf

Ingredients

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 1 cup crunchy Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks
  • 4 tablespoons milk
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 1/2 cups ketchup
  • 4 saltine crackers
  • 1 1/4 ounces onion soup mix

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 350.
  2. Place the Cheetos in a bowl and crush them until broken up but still coarse.
  3. Pour in the milk and allow it to sit for 2 minutes.
  4. Crack the egg into the Cheeto mixture.
  5. In a separate large bowl, combine the ground beef and the onion soup mix.
  6. Use your hands to mix until the soup mix is evenly distributed through the meat.
  7. Stir the egg yolk into the Cheeto mixture with a spoon, then add this entire mixture to the meat.
  8. Mix with your hands, crumbling the saltine crackers into the mixture as you go until fully combined.
  9. Spread half of the ketchup over the base of a 9x13 baking dish.
  10. Evenly distribute the ketchup across the dish.
  11. Shape the meat mixture into an oblong loaf in your hands, place it on the ketchup, and mould it into an even shape.
  12. Cover the top of the meatloaf with the remaining ketchup.
  13. Sprinkle your preferred seasonings over the top.
  14. Bake for 1 hour.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium1847600 mg

Recipe details

CategoryMeat
AuthorBayAreaCooking