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A wonderful twist on a classic comfort food dish, these medicated meatloaf muffins with mashed potato frosting are an absolute HIT at holiday parties, family gatherings, or as an ultra-satisfying weeknight meal. Who knew you could elevate a simple meatloaf into beautiful, savory, single portion works of art in an hour? If you love a comforting home-cooked meal that’s sure to impress, you’re going to want to make these!
**Note: In this recipe -like many others-, you have several options of how you can medicate it. For example, you could use cannabis-infused olive oil in the process of making the mini meatloaves. You can use a decarboxylated concentrate, such as a dabbable syringe within the glaze (which is a wonderful option, as it’s easy to calculate portions and dosage), and then of course, you can use medicated butter for the mashed potato frosting, whether cannabis-infused Ghee or homemade canna-butter. Because precise dosing is incredibly important in cannabis cooking, make sure to divide your total THC by the number of servings for confidence in medicating.
Step 1: Prepare Your Ingredients
Prepare your ingredients, starting with dicing your vegetables, measuring your seasonings, and bringing out your eggs, ground beef, and butter. I start with peeling and dicing the potatoes and soaking them in cold water with a pinch of salt. (This process removes some of the starch in the potatoes, allowing them to be even fluffier!)
Once the potatoes are soaking, dice your onion and green pepper, mince your garlic, and chop your parsley. As always, we measure garlic with loooove in this house ! If you want more of an earthier kick to your mini meatloaves, I recommend using poblano peppers, but green peppers work wonderfully.
Pre-heat oven to 350°F, and spray or grease a 12-cup muffin pan.
Step 2: Sauté Peppers Onion & Garlic, Start Potatoes
Heat 1T olive oil in skillet. Sauté onion and peppers for 5 minutes until softened. Add garlic and sauté 30 seconds until aromatic. Set veggies aside and let them cool.
*Here, you’ll start cooking your soaked potatoes. Place potatoes in a pot, covering with water, and bring to a boil.*
**Note: If you’d like to make blanched veggies as a side, this is also where you start the pot of water for those. For this recipe I went with broccolini. To blanch, bring a pot of salted water to a boil, place broccolini in boiling water for 3 minutes. Immediately -with tongs-, place broccolini in an ice water bath to stop the cooking process. Pat dry and place on baking sheet with olive oil and preferred spices to roast while mini meatloaves are cooking after being glazed. This process is my favorite way to prepare vegetables because they retain their bright, vivid colors, their crisp texture, and lock in their vitamins and nutrients.
Step 3: Mix Meatloaf Ingredients in Bowl
Mix all your meatloaf muffin ingredients in a large bowl. 1 ½ pounds ground beef, ¾ cup breadcrumbs (I roughly split the breadcrumbs between Italian Style and Garlic & Herb breadcrumbs), ¼ cup barbeque sauce, 1T Worcestershire sauce, 1 large -or 2 small- eggs, 1T chopped parsley, salt and pepper to taste, and your cooled pepper, onion and garlic mixture.
Mix by hand until all ingredients are incorporated, but don’t over-mix! Mixing until just incorporated ensures your mini loaves are moist and cooked-through evenly, and not dense, tough or dry.
Step 4: Place Meat in Tin
If you’d like, use a large spoon or ice cream scoop to fill each muffin tin evenly. Pat them flat gently, place muffin tin in oven and bake for 20 minutes.
Step 5: Prepare Glaze & Mash Potatoes
While your meatloaf muffins are baking, in a small pot, add in your glaze ingredients: ⅓ cup ketchup, ⅓ chili sauce, 1T brown sugar. If you are using a dabbable syringe to medicate the glaze, add your desired dose of the syringe. Bring to low heat and incorporate well with a metal or silicone whisk. Let simmer while you prepare your mashed potato frosting.
By this time, your potatoes should be fork tender. Drain potatoes and return to pot. With burner on low, steam and toss in pot for 30 seconds before adding in rest of ingredients. Steaming your potatoes takes out extra moisture, allowing your mashed potato frosting to be especially fluffy!
Mash together with ¾ cup hot milk, 1 stick room-temperature butter, and 1t sea salt.
Step 6: Glaze Meatloaf Muffins & Continue Baking
Once the meatloaf muffins have been baked for 20 minutes, remove from oven and spoon equal amounts of glaze on each muffin. Continue baking for 10 minutes.
**Note: This is also where you put in your blanched broccolini/roasted veggie of choice.
Step 7: Top Muffins with Mashed Potato “Frosting”, Finish & Serve
Now, this step is personal preference, but for me it’s a must! It transforms meatloaf muffins into elegant meatloaf cupcakes with beautifully topped potato frosting.
At this stage, I carefully take the meatloaf muffins out of the tin, and onto a lined baking sheet for easier topping. Scoop your mashed potatoes into a piping bag equipped with a frosting tip. Pipe mashed potato on top of each muffin. (Alternatively, you can simply scoop the mashed potatoes onto the muffins or skip this step altogether and serve your potatoes on the side.) Sprinkle with paprika or other seasoning if desired.
Place topped meatloaf muffins back into the oven for another 5-10 minutes, or until potatoes are lightly golden and slightly firmer. Remove muffins and broccolini from oven, garnish with parsley or finely chopped chives, plate & serve!
Enjoy!
Cooking with Cannabis-Infused Ingredients
A good starting point for ingesting cannabis edibles is to limit yourself to <5mg THC; even less if you are new to THC-infused food. Edibles may have the tendency to be more intense and can differ drastically from smoking. The effects can take anywhere from a half hour to 3 hours to fully metabolize, depending on an individual’s unique body and metabolic rate. In addition, because the THC is digested through your liver and can more readily cross the body’s blood-brain barrier, the high can be stronger and last longer. With that said, your edible’s potency depends on many factors; how it was prepared, the potency of your starting product, as well as considering lineage and terpenes in the strain or concentrate used in your recipe. To test the potency and effect of your finished product, try a smaller amount (<5mg) and see how that dose affects you. Titrate your dose as desired, and you can then use this personalized “standard” dose as a baseline for your recipes.
**Check out our dosage calculator for help in calculating your edible’s dosage @:
https://www.plant-family.com/thc-dosage-calculator/ **
Happy Cooking!
