Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 medium onion (finely diced)
- 3 eggs
- ¼ cup all purpose flour (or gluten free flour mix)
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt (divided)
- ½ teaspoon black pepper (divided)
- Oil ( for greasing muffin tins)
- 6 medium sweet potatoes
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup barbeque sauce (links below)
- fresh parsley (optional)
Instruction
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Scrub and dry sweet potatoes. Cut them in half horizontally and place them skin-side up on a baking sheet. Place in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
- While sweet potatoes bake, finely dice the onion.
- In a large bowl, add ground beef, diced onion, eggs, flour, basil, garlic and salt and pepper. Use clean hands to mix until just combined.
- Grease muffin tins generously with oil.
- Divide the meat into muffins tins - filling to the top of each cup.
- Bake in middle rack of oven for 30-35 minutes or until the insides are no longer pink.
- Once sweet potatoes finish baking, allow them to cool on the counter for a few minutes. Once cooled, use a spoon to scoop out the insides and place in a medium sized bowl. Add ½ teaspoon of salt. Smash sweet potatoes with a fork until smooth.
- Spoon sweet potato topping onto meatloaf muffins or add sweet potato filling to a sandwich bag and snip off the corner to pipe filling onto muffins.
- Drizzle with barbeque sauce and garnish with freshly chopped parsley if desired.