Pizza Meatloaf is a delicious recipe for cheese stuffed meatloaf! Ground beef, Italian sausage, and pizza seasonings are wrapped around a gooey center or cheese and makes to ooey, gooey, perfection! This Stuffed Meatloaf is so much better than Classic Meatloaf!
Nothing reminds me more of my childhood dinners around our oak dinner table, than my Mom’s Pizza Meatloaf.
What you ask, is Pizza Meatloaf?
It is a Cheese Stuffed Meatloaf with Italian flavors.
And it is the BEST meatloaf you will EVER eat!
Cheese Stuffed Meatloaf
Dinner at my house as a child was a family event.
We gathered around our large dining room table and fought about where each of us kids got to sit. One meal we all could agree on was my Mom’s Pizza Meatloaf with mashed potatoes.
This recipe for meatloaf is not a classic meatloaf recipe–it is SO Much better!
When my mom made meatloaf, she mixed up a mixture of flavorful meat, pizza sauce and stuffed it with gooey cheese and baked smothered in more pizza sauce and topped with more cheese.
This is seriously the recipe for the BEST Meatloaf ever!
How to Make Stuffed Meatloaf
Step One: Prepare Meatloaf mixture
- Mix together the pizza sauce, Italian seasonings, egg, and bread crumbs until well combined.
- Add in the meat and mix to just combine–do NOT overmix the meatloaf, or you will have dry, tough meatloaf.
Step Two: Stuff the Meatloaf
- On wax or parchment paper, flatten out the meat into a rectangular shape (about 6 by 10 inches.)
- Top with cheese.
- Roll the meatloaf into shape of a loaf.
- Place on broiler pan.
- Top meatloaf with additional sauce and cheese.
Step Three: Bake Meatloaf
- Bake meatloaf for 1 hour, or until center reaches 165 degrees.
- Allow to rest for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.
Tips on Stuffed Meatloaf
- I like to use a mixture of lean sirloin and chicken sausage, but you can use all ground chicken, ground beef, a mixture of ground pork and beef, or half pork sausage and half ground beef. If you are NOT using sausage in this meatloaf, add in an additional teaspoon each of garlic, red pepper flakes, and onion powder.
- I highly recommend baking your meatloaf on a broiler pan to let the fat drain away as it is rendered while the meatloaf cooks.
- You can certainly use homemade marinara sauce in place of pizza sauce–in fact that is what I most often do.
- Feel free to use gluten free bread crumbs in this Pizza Meatloaf–it will work just fine.
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Stuffed Meatloaf Recipe
Cheese Stuffed Meatloaf
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1/2 pound Italian sausage
- 1 cup pizza sauce divided
- 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
- 2 eggs whisked
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 2 tablespoons dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 8 ounces 1 cup shredded or sliced Mozzarella or Provolone cheese, divided
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Mix together eggs, bread crumbs, salt, oregano, parsley, parmesan, and 1/3 cup pizza sauce together until well combined.
- Add in ground beef and sausage and gently combine, being careful to not overmix your meatloaf mixture.
- Flatten and top with 2/3 cup mozzarella or provolone cheese.
- Roll meat around cheese and shape into a loaf.
- Place meat on broiler pan or loaf pan and top with remaining sauce and cheese.
- Bake for 1 hour.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes and then slice and serve.
Notes
- Feel free to use ground chicken, turkey or beef.
- Any type of ground sausage works as well.
Nutrition
Excellent! Easy recipe smells so good baking, rolled meatloaf using parchment paper no seems no leaking of cheese!
Great tip using parchment paper to roll meatloaf. Glad you enjoyed Chris 🙂