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Mini Italian Meat Loaves
by Katie Reed
serves: 6
  1.) Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, mix all ingredients except cheese and additional pizza sauce. Press beef mixture into 12 regular-size muffin cups (cups will be very full). Place muffin pan on cookie sheet to catch an spillover.
2.) Bake about 30 minutes or until loaves are no longer pink in center and meat thermometer inserted in center of loaves in middle of muffin pan reads 160 degrees.
3.) Sprinkle 1 teaspoon cheese over each loaf. Bake 1 to 2 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Immediately remove from cups. Serve with pizza sauce.
Ingredients:
  1 1/2 lb.   extra-lean (at least 90%) ground beef
  1/2 cup   Italian-style dry bread crumbs
  1/2 cup   pepperoni-flavored pizza sauce
  1/4 tsp.   salt
  1/4 tsp.   pepper
  2 cloves   garlic, finely chopped
  1   egg
  1/4 cup   shredded Italian-style six cheese blend or mozzarella cheese
    additional pizza sauce, heated, if desired
Directions: