My new favorite dinner

Healthy turkey mini meat loafs

This is a biggest loser recipe and its super lean and yummy. Also I tweaked the recipe a little and added little side notes which I explain throughout the recipe in blue

You will need the following



1 small yellow onion, coarsely chopped
1 medium carrot, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 stalk of celery, coarsely chopped
2 canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (I'd never heard of this before, it sounded like something I was going to have to get at a specialty mexican shop but no its at the regular store, I've gotton it at wal-mart and reams, it's just down the mexican aisle by the refried beans and taco shells and what not)
1 (20-ounce) package JENNIE-O TURKEY STORE® lean ground turkey breast (ok it doesn't have to be Jennie-o just make sure its the really lean 97-99% lean ground turkey breast)
1/2 cup quick cooking oats
2 egg whites

For Topping
1/4 cup fat free and sugar free ketchup (I just used organic ketchup, regular ketchup is fine too just not quite as healthy)
1 tablespoon chipotle pepper adobo sauce (I found the meatloaf to be way to spicy for my taste when I added this to the topping so I just used the same amount of Worcheshire sauce instead and it turned out great, but if you like really spicy stuff go for it)
1 tablespoon brown sugar substitute (such as Splenda® Brand) I don't like splenda since its artificial so I just used regular brown sugar, but either one will work fine

Preheat oven to 350 F



Chop up onion, carrot and celery like so (you don't have to do it too small)





put it all in a food processor and blend till it's finely chopped (I have a tiny food processor so it took me 3 times to get it all)



Heres the adobo peppers, just mix them in with the other veggies, I just forgot to



In a large bowl, combine the ground turkey with the peppers and vegetable mixture. Add egg whites and oats; gently mix until combined (Just mush it up with your hands)



Until it looks like this



Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray (if you don't have a muffin tin, I'm sure a regular cookie sheet would work fine, the mixture is firm enough)

Ball up and put into wells, put it in the oven for 20 minutes



I had this much left over to cook up later

Now for the topping



Just blend all the ingredients up in a bowl and honestly I just eyeballed it instead of measuring it out



After 20 minutes in the oven take them out and put topping on, put back in the oven for another 8 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 170°F.



and wha-la pair it up with a salad or some veggies and I would also usually add a 1/2 cup of brown rice or a half a sweet potato for good carbs. Also I am obsessed with this dressing from Gingers health food cafe in Springville. Cilantro curry dressing, its a little sweet and a little spicy from the curry and it's flipping delicious. I put a little ranch on it too this time. I always put 2 sometimes 3 different dressing's on my salad (like italian on 1/2 then ranch on the other half for example) I just like having multiple tastes I guess

P.S. If you don't like spicy things at all you can omit the chipole peppers all together

P.S.S. if you don't have worcheshire sauce you could just combine the ketchup and brown sugar or just use ketchup. Sometimes I just hate going and buying a condiment or spice I don't have for just one recipe and then maby never using it again

Oh and here are the nutrition facts:

Tara's Turkey Mini-Meatloaf
Biggest Loser season 7 all-star Tara Costa's favorite ranch recipe.
Per Meatloaf: 110 Calories, 1g Fat, 25mg Cholesterol, 180mg Sodium, 6g Carbohydrates, 16g Protein, <1g Fiber

So there you go, I hope you love these as much as I do :)