date night meatloaf

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 5 poblano peppers
• cooking spray
• 12 pitted medjool dates
• 20 ounces 90%-lean ground beef
• 5 ounces goat cheese
• 1/4 cup barbeque sauce (such as jack daniel's®)
• 1/4 cup plain bread crumbs
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons barbeque sauce (such as jack daniel's®)

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ready Time: 1 hr 30 mins


• set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler. arrange peppers on a baking sheet.
• broil peppers in the preheated oven until bubbling and skin becomes blackened, 5 to 10 minutes per side. remove from oven and transfer peppers to a bowl of ice water; set aside for skin to loosen from peppers, about 10 minutes. remove peppers from water and peel blackened skin from peppers and remove seeds.
• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
• place peppers and dates in a food processor; pulse until evenly combined.
• mix pepper-date mixture, ground beef, goat cheese, 1/4 cup barbeque sauce, bread crumbs and egg together in a bowl or in a stand-mixer until evenly combined. pour beef mixture into the prepared loaf pan. spread 2 tablespoons barbeque sauce evenly over meat mixture.
• bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink in the center, about 1 hour. an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees f (70 degrees c).