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Pizza Meatloaf: My mom’s take on meatloaf–a mixture of ground beef, Italian sausage, and pizza seasonings that stuffed with cheese! This Pizza Loaf tastes nothing like traditional meatloaf but just like pizza and is sure to be a hit with your family as much as it is with mine! 

Slice of cheese stuffed pizza loaf

 

This week, Sunday Supper is all about Mom’s. Not what our mom’s would love for us to make them, but what we remember as a dish associated with our own mom’s.

And nothing reminds me more of my childhood dinners around our oak dinner table, than Pizza Meatloaf.

What you ask, is Pizza Meatloaf?

My mom’s take on meatloaf. In fact, I had never even tasted a tradtional meatloaf until my late 20s.

When my mom made meatloaf, she mixed up a mixture of flavorful meat, pizza sauce and stuffed it with gooey cheese and baked smoothered in more pizza sauce and topped with more cheese–sounds pretty awesome, huh? Just look at that cheese oozing out when you slice it!

Easy Pizza 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 (we had to resort to rotations between the 4 kids between who got to sit by mom and who my dad, etc). We always had to drink milk and dinner was often one of mom’s go-tos like tacos, chicken pot pie, spaghetti with mom’s sauce, pot roast, pizza bread, or Amish chicken.

But we could always count on Pizza Meatloaf with parsley potatoes and canned green beans.

It was one of my Dad’s favorites. It was one of the kids’ favorites. Heck, I bet it was one of my mom’s favorites, because it made us all happy and is not that hard to make!

Baked Meatloaf with pizza sauce and cheese

Steps to Homemade Pizza Meatloaf

You simply mix up the meat with a few seasonings. Flatten out and top with cheese. Roll into shape of loaf. Place on broiler pan and top with additional sauce and cheese.

Step by step photos of how to make cheese stuffed meatloaf

My mom and I chuckle about this meal now, as it is one neither one of us have made in nearly a decade–the Pizza Loaf is great, but honestly something we had both forgotten about for years.

Now both of us, like to cook things that are bit lighter, like this Paleo Meatloaf from Nostastic.

But let me tell you, I made this recipe just like Mom and served it up just like Mom would with the parsely potatoes and canned beans and my family RAVED about it!

Every last bit was devoured and they have been begging me to make it again.

Tips on Pizza Meatloaf Roll

  • 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 additonal teaspoon each of garlic, red pepper flakes, and onion powder.
  • 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 Loaf–it will work just fine.
  • My mom always served this with boiled red potatoes and green beans tossed with a bit of butter, salt and garlic. YUM!
  • Looking for a lighter version of an Italian Style Meatloaf? Check out this Turkey Meatloaf from Melanie Makes–it is not stuffed with cheese, but it is flavored with oregano and garlic and some Parmesan.

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Let’s Make Pizza Meatloaf

 

Pizza Meatloaf
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Easy Pizza Meatloaf

A flavorful meatloaf that has been filled with cheese and topped with pizza sauce. 

Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword Cheese Stuffed Meatloaf, Pizza Meatloaf
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 6 -8
Calories 253 kcal
Author A Mind Full Mom

Ingredients

  • 1 pound lean ground beef
  • 1/2 pound Italian sausage I used ground Italian chicken sausage
  • 1 cup pizza sauce divided
  • 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
  • 4 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

  1. Mix meat with eggs, bread crumbs, salt, oregano,parsley, parmesan and 1/3 cup
  2. pizza sauce.
  3. Flatten and top with 2/3 cup mozzarella or provolone cheese.
  4. Roll meat around cheese and shape in loaf.
  5. Place meat on broiler pan or loaf pan and top with remaining sauce and cheese.
  6. Bake at 375 for 1 hour.
Nutrition Facts
Easy Pizza Meatloaf
Amount Per Serving
Calories 253 Calories from Fat 99
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 11g 17%
Saturated Fat 4g 20%
Cholesterol 178mg 59%
Sodium 956mg 40%
Potassium 539mg 15%
Total Carbohydrates 8g 3%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 3g
Protein 28g 56%
Vitamin A 8.7%
Vitamin C 18.4%
Calcium 10.8%
Iron 38.4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

I would love to know, What dish do you associate with your Mom? Leave me a comment below!

 

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  1. I made an Italian meatloaf a few weeks ago, but your pizza version sounds so much better! Love that you added Italian sausage to the mix!

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  3. Your mom is a freaking genius, Kristen, and you can tell her I said so! I’m so glad you decided to share her pizza loaf.

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  4. I don’t blame you. If I were a kid and my mom served me Pizza Meatloaf, I would have been so happy! It looks delicious. Don’t change a thing!

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  7. I often add Italian seasoning to a meatloaf. But I love the addition of the sausage. What a great idea your mom had.

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  8. Perfect timing – We are cutting down on carbs and this version will slide right in when we have the pizza cravings!

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  9. You know I’ve never actually made meatloaf, though I’ve thought of trying a variation on i in recent years but this looks tasty. Very creative!

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    • Thanks Caroline–and like I said, I never had traditional meatloaf growing up, so this was all I knew (and we love it!)

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  10. Sounds like you had a really creative mom… your meatloaf looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

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    • Thanks Maria–it is funny because we didn’t think this was creative at all because we had it weekly 🙂 The first time I saw regular meatloaf, I was like “What is that?!!”

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  13. I know my family will rave about this dish too. Thanks for sharing.

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  14. Pizza is my love language for sure, but I also love leftover meatloaf, so this is all kinds of a win for me!

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  16. I used to not be a huge fan of meat loaf – till I saw this! Dang, Kristen, this cheesey pizza loaf looks scrumptious!

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