Santa Fe Meat Loaf

Ingredients

• 6 slices add carrot and onion to bacon fat . cook crumbled cooked (such as Oscar Mayer)
• 1 teaspoon chili powder 
• 1 tablespoon chipotles in adobo canned minced
• 0.8 cup breadcrumbs dry
• 2 large egg whites 
• 0.5 pound pd of ground turkey 7%
• 4  garlic clove minced
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cumin 
• 1 pound pd of ground turkey 
• 3 ounces pizza cheese shredded 2% mexican-style reduced-fat kraft finely (such as milk)
• 0.5 cup onion chopped
• 1 teaspoon oregano dried
• 0.3 cup bell pepper red finely chopped
• 0.7 cup salsa divided

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• loaf pan
• kitchen thermometer

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray.
3. Add onion, bell pepper, chili powder, cumin, and garlic to pan; saut 1 1/2 minutes or until onion is tender. Stir in chipotle chile; saut 30 seconds.
4. Remove from pan; cool.
5. Combine onion mixture, turkey, turkey breast, breadcrumbs, 1/3 cup salsa, oregano, bacon, and egg whites in a large bowl.
6. Place half of turkey mixture in an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Arrange cheese over top, leaving a 1/2-inch border around outside edges. Arrange remaining turkey mixture over cheese, pressing edges to pack.
7. Spread the remaining 1/3 cup salsa over top of meat loaf.
8. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 25 minutes or until a thermometer registers 16
9. Let stand 10 minutes.
10. Remove from pan; cut into 12 slices.