Feta-Stuffed Turkey Meatloaf with Tzatziki Sauce

Feta-Stuffed Turkey Meatloaf with Tzatziki Sauce

Meatloaf often gets a bad rap because everyone has had dry, flavorless meatloaf at some point, but it’s easy to make good meatloaf.  And good meatloaf is delicious.

This Greek-inspired unique take on meatloaf derives most of its flavor from feta cheese and tzatziki sauce.  To keep it low carb, in place of bread crumbs I used coconut flour to help bind the meatloaf and keep it moist. I loosely (very loosely) followed a recipe for turkey meatloaf from Ina Garten just to get my proportions right. Other than that, this meatloaf was purely my invention.

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Feta-Stuffed Turkey Meatloaf with Tzatziki Sauce

Ingredients

    Tzatziki Sauce:
  • 1 cup yogurt
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 clove garlic, finely minced
  • 1/2 medium cucumber, cut in half longwise and thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp chopped, fresh dill
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • Meatloaf:
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
  • 1 package frozen spinach, thawed and drained
  • 2 lbs ground turkey
  • 1/4 cup coconut flour (or 1/2 cup bread crumbs)
  • 1/2 cup chicken stock (reduce to 1/4 cup if using bread crumbs)
  • 1 large egg, lightly beaten
  • 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
  • 1 cup crumbled feta cheese

Instructions

  1. For the sauce, mix all ingredients in a medium bowl and chill until serving.
  2. For the meatloaf, line a baking sheet with parchment paper and preheat oven to 325F.
  3. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
  4. Stir in onions, salt and pepper and saute until onions are translucent but not browned, about 15 minutes. Add in spinach and stir until heated through.
  5. In a large mixing bowl, combine onion mixture, turkey, coconut flour, chicken stock, egg and worcestershire sauce. Mix until very well combined.
  6. Place half of the turkey mixture on prepared baking sheet and shape into a flat rectangle, about 1 inch thick. Cover with feta cheese, pressing on feta to adhere to meatloaf.
  7. Place remaining turkey mixture overtop of feta and shape the whole thing into a rough loaf.
  8. Bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours, or until internal temperature reaches 160F on an instant read thermometer.
  9. Cut into slices and drizzle with tzatziki sauce, passing remaining sauce at the table.

Yield: 6

Carolyn Ketchum
Carolyn Ketchum

Carolyn Ketchum writes All Day I Dream About Food, a food blog that focuses primarily on low carb, gluten free recipes. She has a Masters in Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution from Arizona State University and has an extensive background in higher education administration. She currently lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. You can check out her experiments with low carb baking at All Day I Dream About Food.

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Jessica
Jessica
4 years ago

Do you think this could translate well into mini meatloafs, like in muffin tins?

Judy
Judy
5 years ago

What can be substituted for the spinach?

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