Recipe from new kids cookbook: Mighty Meatloaf.

Help children young and not so young make their own breakfasts, lunches and dinners: safely and with yumminess guaranteed with the new cookbook "Recipes from Chop, Cook, Yum" from the Cool Food School founder and author Deirdre Doyle.

From Morning Munchies to Yummy Dinners, Snackalious quick bites to Lunchbox Fillers, packed with over fifty tried-and-tested, easy-to-follow recipes. Cooking is a pizza cake with this uniquely Irish cookbook for kids!

This is simply meat made into a loaf like a loaf of bread!   Grab a copy of her book now from all good bookshops nationwide or from the Cool Food School website. 

Mighty Meatloaf

Prep time: 15-20 minutes
Cooking/Baking time: 60-75 minutes
Serves: 3 children and 2 adults

Stuff you'll need
Chopping board
Child-safe knife and peeler
Frying pan
Blender
Large bowl
Loaf tin

Food you'll need
1 brown onion
4 garlic cloves
3 carrots
3 sticks of celery
1 medium courgette
handful button mushrooms
2 tsp dried rosemary
2 tsp dried thyme
oil, salt and pepper
400g minced beef (1 medium pack)
1 egg, beaten
¼ cup grated cheddar cheese

How to make it
Turn the oven on to 180 degrees.
Peel the onion, garlic and carrots. Dice the onion and garlic.
Roughly chop the carrot, celery and courgette before blending for a few seconds. (No blender? No problem! Just dice all the veggies nice and small.)
Warm a tablespoon of oil on the frying pan and cook the onion gently.
Pop all your veggies and the garlic into the pan with the onion and stir well.
Add the rosemary and thyme and some salt and pepper.
Cook for 3 to 5 minutes until the veggies are soft, then take them off the heat.
While they are cooling, grease the loaf tin (see page 13 for how to grease a tin).
In your large bowl, mix the meat, egg and grated cheese together.
Add the veggie mixture to the meat and mix everything well.
Plop the mixture into the tin and press it down. Bake it in the oven for 60–75 minutes. Stick a fork in and if it goes all the way through, that’s a good sign that the meat is cooked.
Serve it in slices with mashed spuds, some steamed broccoli or a green salad.

Note

You will need to take extra care with this recipe because you may be using a knife or grater, cooking on a hot stove, or using the oven. You should get an adult to help you with these tasks.

Recipes from Chop, Cook, Yum! – Recipes from the Cool Food School by Deirdre Doyle is Published by The O’Brien Press with RRP of €14.99/£13.99.