Mexican Meatloaf recipe
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Mexican Meatloaf recipe is a tasty twist on a classic. This hearty meatloaf recipe uses spicy flavors of cumin, cilantro, green chiles, and chorizo.
This Mexican Meatloaf recipe comes together quickly and easily for weeknight dinners.
And so it goes.
I wasn’t even a fan of meatloaf before meeting my husband and I didn’t eat my mother’s meatloaf growing up. However, I tried Wesley’s homemade meatloaf way back when we first got married. It smelled so good cooking and we were poor and it was either that or nothing. Maybe we had a brown banana on the counter, but we sure didn’t have filets in the fridge. To my surprise, it was delicious and didn’t taste at all like what I remember eating at 10 years old for Sunday dinner.
Enter Mexican meatloaf.
We seriously eat Mexican twice a week, more if it were up to my boys. A Mexican Meatloaf recipe was a natural progression of my traditional meatloaf since I’ve slowly been adding Mexican flavors to beef and chicken for a while now. It’s a spicy spin that your family will love too.
Mexican Meatloaf recipe tips
I used beef chorizo sausage mixed with lean ground beef. Chorizo tends to have a high-fat content so I went with 90% lean ground beef.
I also mixed half chorizo with half ground beef. I really liked that ratio for flavor. If you’re watching fat and calories, you may want to use less chorizo.
For additional flavors, moisture and texture, I added canned chopped tomatoes, green chiles, and diced onions. Then to round with the spices, I mixed in garlic, cumin, cilantro, enchilada sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. I serve Mexican Meatloaf with black bean salsa over a bed of Romaine lettuce, Green Chile Cheese Rice and an easy Mexican dessert.
Yes, it’s full of flavor!
You ‘ll also enjoy these family favorite recipes. They’re all easy to make (like all my recipes) and are some of my boys’ most requested.
- Hamburger Steak Onions Brown Gravy
- Three Cheese Beef Pasta Bake
- Old Fashion Beef Steak and Vegetable soup
- Crock Pot Crack chicken
- Ground Beef Mongolian Noodles
Mexican Meatloaf recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 and ½ pound lean ground beef
- 1 and ½ pound beef chorizo sausage
- 4 ounce green chiles undrained
- 8 ounce tomatoes diced, drained
- 1/2 cup tortilla chips finely crushed
- 1/4 cup white onion
- 3 teaspoon garlic clove minced
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh cilantro dried
- 1 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon enchilada sauce
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Sauce
- ⅓ cup enchilada sauce
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- Garnish: lettuce tomato, cilantro, salsa, cheese, sour cream, black olives
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, combine ground beef and chorizo until well combined.
- Mix in green chiles, diced tomatoes, garlic, cumin, cilantro, eggs, onion, salt, pepper, tortilla chips, enchilada sauce and Worcestershire sauce.
- Combine until well blended.
- On a roasting rack, form meat mixture into a log.
- Bake 35 minutes until outside is browned.
- Combine sauce ingredients: enchilada sauce and brown sugar. Spread over meatloaf reserving 1/3 cup for dipping.
- Cook another 10 minutes with sauce on top.
- Garnish as desired.
Notes
- Be sure to read the post for details on ingredients and substitutions.
- Heat the reserved sauce in the microwave 30 to 40 seconds to dissolve the sugar and serve with meatloaf.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Just made this and it was soooo delicious! Didn’t have cilantro but used some salsa I had in fridge for the diced tomatoes and cilantro. Used green onion cuz it was what I had. Used pork chorizo that I had in freezer. Will most definitely be making this again! NEW FAV! Thx!