The clan over at the Back Burner is gearing up for Thanksgiving. From the looks of it, all of us cannot wait to eat, or should I say gobble! This week we are discussing kid-friendly meals for Thanksgiving. Afterall, the little ones can be the toughest crowd to feed. After seeing a few versions of meat based cupcakes floating around the blog world, I decided to tackle the task. I wanted to create a healthy but fun meal for the little ones. I do have to say, the big kid in my life LOVED this recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground turkey (dark meat)
- 1 small yellow onion
- 1 tablespoon parsley
- 3 thyme sprigs, leaves only
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- ½ cup panko
- 1 egg
- ketchup
- 2 medium russet potatoes, peeled and cut into medium sized pieces
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 5 chives, minced
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Bring a large pan of water to a boil. Add the potatoes and cook until soft; about 20 minutes. Drain. Set aside in the colander.
- In a food processor add the onion, parsley, thyme and garlic. Pulse until finely minced. In a large mixing bowl add the turkey, panko, onion mixture, egg and salt and pepper. Mix well. Lightly grease a muffin tin. Fill each tin with the meat mixture (to the top). Slide into the oven. Bake for 15 minutes. Using a pastry brush, lightly spread some ketchup on each meatloaf. Slide back into the oven and bake for 15 more minutes. Remove from the oven. Set aside.
- While the meat cupcakes are baking make the mash potatoes. Place the potatoes in a large mixing bowl. Over low heat, gently heat the milk and butter, just until the butter is melted. Pour over the potatoes and mash with a potato masher. Season with salt and pepper. Fit a pastry bag with a wide star tip and then fill with the mashed potatoes.
- Place the meatloaf cupcakes onto a serving tray. Pipe the mashed potatoes on top of the meatloaf cupcakes. Sprinkle chives over the top. Serve. Eat.
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I’d love it if you jumped over to the Back Burner and met rest of the team. Who knows you may find some new kid-friendly Thanksgiving meals to help with your holiday inspiration.
She cooks. He devours. Culinary capers in an urban kitchen in West Oakland. Other half of Chez Us can be found @laudalino on Twitter. 
Meatloaf cupcakes? Uh, YES PLEASE! And I love how they’re perfectly portioned out too! Heading over to catch the recipe!
This is a creative Thanksgiving recipe for kids. Thank you for sharing the link to the recipe.
Hi there. The current Food on Friday on Carole’s Chatter is all about meatloaf. I do hope you link this nice one in. This is the link . Please do pop back to check out some of the other links. Have a great week.