New Mexico Green Chile Meatloaf

Growing up in New Mexico, we had access to the Hatch green chile (the best!). I add green chile to a lot of my recipes and it rather sets this meatloaf off. It's very good cold, made into sandwiches the second day.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ pounds hamburger
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 (6 ounce) can diced green chiles
• 0.75 cup chopped onion
• 0.5 cup milk, or as needed
• 2 eggs
• 15 crushed crackers
• 0.5 teaspoon salt, or more to taste
• 0.5 teaspoon ground black pepper

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan.
2. Mix hamburger, tomatoes, green chiles, onion, milk, eggs, crackers, salt, and pepper together in a bowl. Transfer to the prepared loaf pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven until until no longer pink in the center, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
4. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a serving dish.