Quick and easy pasta salad
Make this simple storecupboard pasta salad with sunny Mediterranean-style flavours like sundried tomatoes and basil. Pack it up for lunch the next day.
Cold meatloaf with squashed tomato & pepper salsa
Serves 6
Easy
Prep:
Cook:
Thickly slice this meatloaf and serve in rolls as a picnic burger, or on its own as a tasty and economical cold cut
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- 500g pack beefmince
- 500g pack pork mince
- 1 onionfinely chopped
- 2 eggs
- 50g stale breadcrumbs
- handful oreganosprigs, leaves picked, or use 1 tsp dried
- handful thymesprigs, leaves picked, or use 1 tsp dried, plus extra for scattering
- 2 rosemarysprigs, leaves picked
- 2 garlic cloves1 crushed, 1 thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp olive oilplus extra for greasing
- breadrolls and rocket leaves, to serve
For the salsa
- 2 red and 2 yellow peppersdeseeded and thickly sliced
- ½ tsp dried crushed chillies
- 300g ripe tomatoes
- 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- handful basil leaves
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal472
- fat29g
- saturates10g
- carbs17g
- sugars9g
- fibre3g
- protein38g
- salt0.57glow
Method
step 1
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put the mince, onion, eggs, crumbs, 1 tsp salt and ½ tsp black pepper into a large bowl. Roughly chop the oregano leaves and finely chop the thyme and rosemary leaves. Add the herbs and crushed garlic to the bowl, then mix very well with your hands. Grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin with a little oil, then press in the mince, leaving the top a little mounded. Scatter with a few more thyme leaves and drizzle with a little oil.
step 2
Toss the peppers with the remaining garlic, 2 tbsp oil and chillies in a large roasting tin. Put the meatloaf and peppers into the oven, with the peppers on the shelf below the meat. Roast for 30 mins.
step 3
Meanwhile, quarter the tomatoes or chop a little smaller if they are large. After 30 mins, stir the tomatoes, vinegar and sugar into the peppers, which should be starting to look soft and turning golden at the edges, then cook for 40 mins more. The meatloaf should be hot in the middle (test with a skewer), and the tomatoes looking soft and juicy.
step 4
Pour the excess fat and juice away from the meatloaf, then leave to cool. Squash the tomatoes into the peppers with the back of a fork, tear in the basil and season. Put into a container. Wrap meatloaf and its tin in foil. Serve sliced in rolls with salsa and a handful of rocket.
