Meatloaf Muffins Topped with Creamy Mashed Potatoes
These mini meatloaves have such great flavor and texture and they're topped with my creamy garlic mashed potatoes! Call them muffins, call them cupcakes, either way they're super fun and delicious!
Ingredients
For the Meatloaf
- 1 pound ground turkey (option to use all turkey or all beef)
- ½ pound ground lean beef
- 1 cup yellow onion finely diced
- 5 large garlic cloves finely diced
- 1 cup quick oats
- 1 large egg
- 1 ¼ cup shredded aged Gouda
For the Tomato Sauce for Filling
- ¼ cup tomato paste no salt added
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon rubbed sage
- ¼ teaspoon ground rosemary leaves
- ¼ teaspoon rubbed thyme
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
For the Worcestershire-ish Sauce
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- ¾ teaspoon liquid aminos (or liquid smoke)
- ¾ teaspoon water
- ½ teaspoon blackstrap molasses
- ¼ teaspoon yellow mustard
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
Optional Topping of Homemade Ketchup
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste no salt added
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 pinch of sea salt (or more to taste)
- ⅛ teaspoon garlic powder
- ⅛ teaspoon ground rosemary leaves
- ⅛ teaspoon rubbed thyme
- ⅛ teaspoon dried oregano
- ⅛ teaspoon rubbed sage
For the Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- 8 cups chopped russet potatoes (or Yukon gold, red, or Purple Viking)
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ¼ cup milk (or lower fat option)
- 5 tablespoon full fat plain Greek yogurt (or lower fat works well too)
- ¾ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon garlic granules
Instructions
Make the Meatloaf
- Finely dice the vegetables. Add them to a large mixing bowl with the ground beef, ground turkey, quick oats, shredded aged Gouda, and 1 large egg.
- In a separate small bowl (you can reuse this bowl for multiple steps), combine all the ingredients for the tomato sauce. Add this sauce into the meat mixture.
- In the small bowl, now add all ingredients for the Worcestershire-ish sauce. Add this to the meat mixture.
- Use the same small bowl to now make the homemade ketchup. Set this aside until ready to bake.
- Mix the meatloaf with a fork or your hands until fully combined. Let the mixture season in the fridge at least 1 hour. If you can refrigerate it overnight, do that! This helps the oats soak up more moisture as well and increasing overall flavor. Meanwhile, make the mashed potatoes.
Make the Mashed Potatoes
- Recipe yields 6 cups. You will only need 4 for this recipe but leftovers are great so I recommend the full recipe.
- Rinse potatoes and peel. Chop into about 1 inch pieces.
- Add potatoes to a medium-sized heavy bottom pot (about 3 quart) with 6 cups water (or enough to cover potatoes). Cook on medium heat for 27-30 minutes, covered, or until boiling. Decrease to medium-low and cook another 18-20 minutes. Crack lid slightly as needed to avoid boiling over.
- Drain potatoes and transfer to a large bowl or return to the warm pot you cooked them in. Mash potatoes with a wooden spoon or fork. If you really don't want any lumps you can use a hand mixer.
- Add unsalted butter, milk, Greek yogurt, sea salt, and garlic granules. Use a fork or a whisk and whip until smooth.
- Keep warm and covered until ready to top onto the meatloaf muffins.
Baking
- Preheat the oven to 400℉.
- Spray each muffin tin with olive oil. Scoop a rounded ¼ cup portion into each muffin cup. Gently press the mixture down in each cup. Spread a little of the homemade ketchup on top of each muffin. You’ll really want 2 muffin tins for baking, since this makes 16 muffins. You can bake them at the same time, making sure both are side by side on the middle rack.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove onto cooling rack. You can top them with mashed potatoes while they’re in the muffin tin, or once removed to a plate.
- To remove the muffins, use a spoon and gently lift them out of the tin-they should come out easily. Top each meatloaf muffin with ¼ cup mashed potatoes. I use a measuring cup, then you can glove up and gently dab at the potatoes to smooth them out as you want
- *Option to pipe the potatoes, but this will only work if they’re completely smooth without any lump!
- Garnish with fresh chopped parsley!