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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. | 2. Cover the inside of a 13x9x2-inch baking pan with aluminum foil. | 3. In a mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the ground chuck, sausage, bread crumbs, beaten eggs, salt, nutmeg, and pepper. | 4. In a separate bowl, combine the pesto, 1 cup of the Cheddar cheese, the crumbled bacon,a nd the hard-cooked eggs. | 5. Place the meat mixture between 2 sheets of waxed paper and roll into a rectangular shape about 1/3 inch thick. | 6. Remove the top sheet of waxed paper and spread the pesto mixture all over the top of the flattened meat. | 7. Roll up the meat like a jelly roll, peeling back the remaining waxed paper as you go. | 8. Shape the ends of the roll, as needed, with your hands to form a neat cylindrical shape, entirely enclosing the pesto. | 9. Place the meat loaf, seam side down, in the prepared baking pan. | 10. Sprinkle the meat loaf with the remaining 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese. | 11. Bake until cooked through and browned, 1 hour. | 12. Pesto: Place the garlic and half of the olive oil in a food processor. | 13. Process until the garlic is pureed. | 14. Add the remaining oil, the basil, pine nuts, and Parmesan. | 15. Process to a smooth paste. | 16. The pesto should be fairly dry for the meat loaf. | 17. If the puree is too wet, blot it with paper towels to remove excess oil. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
chuck	1 1/2	1/2	ground lean	952.0022	2.108	143.6843	41.2761
hot italian sausage	1/2		crumbled	201.7338	0.0	44.8801	1.1333
breadcrumb bread	1	cup	toasted coarse	201.7338	0.0	44.8801	1.1333
egg	2		beaten	143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
nutmeg	1/2	teaspoon	grated	5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
black pepper	1	pinch	ground	0.3608	0.0919	0.0149	0.0047
pesto sauce				-	-	-	-
cheddar cheese	1 1/2	cups	grated	-	-	-	-
bacon	6	slices	cooked drained crumbled	216.96	1.8144	15.3024	16.2528
hard egg	2		chopped boiled	201.7338	0.0	44.8801	1.1333
pesto sauce				-	-	-	-
garlic	2	cloves		8.94	1.9836	0.3816	0.03
olive oil	1/3	cup		636.48	0.0	0.0	72.0
basil leaf	2	cups		201.7338	0.0	44.8801	1.1333
pine nut	1/4	cup		227.1375	4.4145	4.6204	23.0749
parmesan cheese	3/4	cup	grated	222.0	24.0	24.0	3.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.