Servings: 4
Ingredients
- ½ white or yellow onion Chopped or minced.
- ¼ cup organic low sodium beef broth or water
- ½ red bell pepper (optional) Chopped.
- 3 cloves fresh garlic Minced.
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- ½ tsp Himalayan pink sea salt
- 1 tsp ground thyme
- ½ tsp dried basil
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- 1 lb organic grass fed ground beef or ground chuck
- 1 egg
- 4 plain melba toast crackers (optional) Finely crushed.
- 8 oz tomato sauce with garlic and herbs (no salt or sugar added). You can substitute plain tomato sauce and mix in ¼ tsp each of dried thyme, basil, oregano and garlic powder.
Instructions
- Preheat oven or air fryer to 350°.
- Add broth or water to a skillet or frying pan over medium heat. Saute the onion, bell pepper (if used), garlic, salt, pepper, thyme, basil and oregano with the broth/water for about 10 minutes or until the liquid has evaporated. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
- While the onion mixture is cooling, cover a jelly roll pan or other rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil and lightly mist with olive oil (non-aerosol).
- In a medium sized bowl, combine beef, egg, onion mixture, ½ of the tomato sauce and melba toast crumbs (if using).
- Mix well and form into one large or two smaller loaves and place on the foil line pan.
- Top loaves (loaf) with the remaining tomato sauce and place in the oven for about 35 minutes. Remove from oven and serve.
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