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Keto Sheet Pan Italian Meatloaf is a flavorful, flat meatloaf topped with sauce and cheese.
There’s the saying: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” That holds true for this delicious Keto Sheet Pan Italian Meatloaf.
My husband Jack is still eating lower-carb meals these days, and we had plans to make meatloaf for dinner. But, after a busy day, we didn’t have time to make a traditional meatloaf in a loaf pan. So, Jack had the idea of making this Keto Sheet Pan Italian Meatloaf!
This flat meatloaf – or ‘sheet loaf’ – bakes up in half the time as a traditional meatloaf meatloaf. And, topped with pizza sauce and melty mozzarella cheese, it takes almost like pizza. (I wanted to call this a ‘meat-za’ to be clever, but Jack vetoed that idea…) 😉
We baked this on a 13×18-inch sheet pan (also known as ‘half sheet’ size). Just be sure to use a pan with a lip (like this) so that the juices from the beef don’t leak all over your stove as the meatloaf bakes.
With only 4.2 net carbs per slice, this Keto Sheet Pan Italian Meatloaf definitely fits into a low-carb diet. But it’s so good – anyone who loves Italian-inspired flavors will love this easy dinner entree.
How do I serve this Keto Sheet Pan Italian Meatloaf?
You can eat it just like any other slice of meatloaf, or make a meatloaf sandwich on our Rosemary Sea Salt Keto Bread.
You may enjoy these other keto recipes:
- Keto & and Cheese with Sausage
- Keto Chicken Meatballs
- Keto Chicken Cheese Bake
- Baked Western Omelet {Keto, Low-Carb}
- Savory Keto Zucchini Cheese Muffins
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Keto Sheet Pan Italian Meatloaf
Ingredients
1/2 batch 90-Second Keto bread, but follow the directions below in Step 1
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup onion, finely diced
1/2 cup green bell pepper, finely diced
1 tablespoon fresh garlic, minced fine
2 pounds 80/20 ground beef
1 pound Italian mild sausage, out of casing
3 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon dry oregano
1 teaspoon dry basil
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 cups of our Easy No-Cook Pizza Sauce (made without sugar), or your favorite pizza sauce
3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
Follow steps to make a half batch of our 90 second keto bread but pour the batter into a glass pie plate sprayed first with pan spray. Microwave for 2-3 minutes until no longer liquid. This step can be done a day in advance and refrigerated until needed.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a small saute pan over medium heat, add olive oil, onion, peppers and garlic and saute for four minutes. Remove from heat to cool.
In a large bowl, mix ground beef, sausage meat, eggs, salt, pepper, oregano, basil, grated Parmesan cheese and the cooled onion and pepper mixture. Crumble the 90 second keto bread into crumbs with your hands and work that into the mixture.
Spray a 17 ½ X 12 1/2-inch sheet pan with pan spray and press the meat mixture into the pan.
Spread the pizza sauce over the top leaving the outside edge exposed.
Bake for 10 minutes and using a turkey baster, remove the fat that will pool up on the edges. Bake for five more minutes and again remove more fat. Don’t try and tilt the pan to drain the fat as the sauce may slide off.
Turn oven from bake to broil.
Cover the sauce with the shredded mozzarella and broil until browned and bubbly. Ours took three minutes, your broiler may be different and take longer.
Remove the last bit of fat, cut into 12 portions (4X3) and serve.
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My “go to” meatloaf!
Thank you so much for sharing!
You’re welcome Janet – glad you like it!
I love this recipe and my work department ask me to bring this in on all pot luck events. This is a WINNER
Thanks Angela!
Since I am only baking the keto bread for the meatloaf recipe, can I just put the whole bread mix into a 9″ glass pie plate and nuke all at one time???? How long to nuke do you think????
Hi Clary – Not sure. The entire bread recipe might overflow in one 9” pie plate. You might need to do that in two batches.
I’ve made this a couple times and love it! It bakes faster than a meatloaf. I use keto breadcrumbs from Thin Slim, which takes out a step. Definitely a keeper! Thanks!
Glad you enjoy the meatloaf Kim!
Absolutely loved this recipe. I added 2.5 cups of other keto bread crumbs in place of the bread in the recipe. Delish! Will make this often!
Thanks for writing to us – we appreciate knowing that other keto bread crumb options work well in this recipe.
Absolutely phenomenal!!!!! I used a sweet yellow pepper instead of green as we really do not care for cooked green peppers! This is going to be a keeper in this house!!! So much easier and faster than traditional meatloaf!!! SUPERB!!!!!
Thanks Kara Jo!
Ok I liked the ease of making this but I was not in love with the sauce and cheese on top… BUT… Hubby LOVED IT!!! So I will make this again and I will probably leave the sauce off of half of it but being new to Keto this was an easy dinner to make. Thank you!
Thanks for your feedback Ginger.
This was very good. I put some toppings on it to spice it up. I did margherita style on 1/2 using fresh basil and tomatoes. On the other side I put Canadian bacon and pineapple tidbits. It turned out great!
Great suggestions Valeria!