Meatloaves with Creamy Thyme Sauce
plus Garlic Mashed Potatoes & Roasted Brussels Sprouts
- Wheat
- Milk
This delicious dish is the definition of umami. Not sure if you’ve ever experienced the “fifth taste?” After one bite, you’ll totally understand the obsession. Mini meatloaves are baked to perfection, then draped in a supremely savory thyme sauce. The luxurious loaves are served alongside crispy roasted Brussels sprouts and garlicky mashed potatoes—aka more things to catch any runaway sauce. Plus, the whole shebang cooks up in a flash (just 35 minutes!). What are you waiting for?
Ingredients
1 unit
Shallot
12 ounce
Yukon Gold Potatoes
10 ounce
Ground Beef
¼ cup
Panko Breadcrumbs
(Contains: Wheat)
1 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
8 ounce
Brussels Sprouts
¼ ounce
Thyme
1 unit
Beef Stock Concentrate
4 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
Not included in your delivery
1 tablespoon
Cooking Oil
2 tablespoon
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Salt
Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position (middle and top positions for 4 servings) and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces. Halve and peel shallot; thinly slice one half and mince remaining. Trim and halve Brussels sprouts lengthwise. • Place potatoes in a large pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 15-20 minutes. • Reserve ½ cup potato cooking liquid; then drain and return potatoes to pot.
• While potatoes cook, in a large bowl, combine beef*, panko, minced shallot, half the garlic powder (you’ll use the rest later), and 1 TBSP water (2 TBSP for 4 servings); season generously with salt and pepper. • Form mixture into two 1-inch-tall loaves (four loaves for 4).
• Place meatloaves on one side of a lightly oiled baking sheet. TIP: Line sheet with foil first for easier cleanup. • Toss Brussels sprouts on empty side with a drizzle of oil; season generously with salt and pepper. • Roast on top rack until meatloaves are cooked through and Brussels sprouts are browned and tender, 15-20 minutes. (For 4 servings, use 2 baking sheets; roast meatloaves on middle rack and Brussels sprouts on top rack.) TIP: If Brussels sprouts finish first, remove from sheet and continue roasting meatloaves.
• While everything roasts, strip thyme leaves from stems; finely chop leaves until you have ½ tsp (1 tsp for 4 servings). • Heat a drizzle of oil in a medium pan over medium-high heat. Add chopped thyme and sliced shallot; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until softened, 2-4 minutes. • Stir in stock concentrate and ¼ cup water (1⁄3 cup water for 4). Bring to a boil, then reduce to a low simmer. Cook until slightly thickened, 2-3 minutes. • Turn off heat. Stir in half the sour cream (you’ll use the rest in the next step) and 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4) until melted and combined. Season with salt and pepper.
• Heat pot with drained potatoes over low heat; add 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings), remaining sour cream, and remaining garlic powder. • Mash until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as needed. Season with salt and pepper.
• If necessary, reheat pan with sauce over low heat; stir until warmed through. • Divide meatloaves, mashed potatoes, and Brussels sprouts between plates. Spoon sauce over meatloaves and serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many loved the creamy thyme sauce, calling it delicious and flavorful. Some found the meatloaf bland and wanted more seasoning.
- Ease of prep: Several noted it was easy to prepare, though a few mentioned it took longer than expected or was labor-intensive.
- Suggestions: Consider adding an egg to moisten the meatloaf. Some recommend doubling the sauce, as it was a highlight 🍲.
- Portions: A few felt the meat or potato portions were too small for two people. Some wanted more sauce.
- Vegetables: Brussels sprouts received mixed reviews; consider offering vegetable options or cooking tips for better results.
Reviews from our home cooks
Based on the picture, we had imagined what the Meatloaves and Creamy Thyme Sauce would taste like... and it delivered that flavor. The Brussel sprouts and the Garlic Mashed Potatoes rounded out this meal well. And while we thought it would be difficult to make, it came together with ease!
A little more time-consuming that a lot of the recipes, but this one is a winner in our house! Great garlic mashed potatoes and the little meatloaf is tender and delicious with a wonderful thyme sauce drizzled on top. Brussels Sprouts were OK, too, but not very flavorful.
This dish was very tasty! Loved the creamy thyme sauce, even ate it on top of the homemade mashed potatoes as well as the meatloaf! Again, the prep and cook time was longer, but it was worth it! If I could change one thing it would be the vegetable side in this dish. Not so sure the brussels sprouts go well with the other flavors, nevertheless, my husband loved them.
This one was amazing. The thyme sauce was super simple but just bursting with flavor. As always the mashed potatoes are easy to make and quite tasty and the meatloaves were really good too. The brussel sprouts were tasty too, but we added a little balsamic glaze to give it a boost. Overall I think this is definitely a top 5 meal for us.
I really love the fresh thyme flavor in this recipe, and my husband loves the roasted brussels sprouts. The mashed potatoes were ultra creamy, and everything was easy to make!
The thyme sauce is PERFECTION. All the right amounts of herby, creamy, bold beefy flavor - a match made in heaven for the simple yet satisfyingly seasoned meatloaves.
Liked that you could roast meatloaves and Brussels sprouts at same time. Mashed potatoes were perfect and garlicky. Sauce was amazing. Really liked.
The meatloaf was full of flavor and easy to prepare. The brussel sprouts roast up nice and were great. The addition of the creamy thyme sauce made the meal amazing!!
The meatloaves were delicious and the Brussels sprouts turned out perfectly. The creamy thyme sauce recipe didn't come together very well. It tasted great but I had to improvise a bit with heavy cream and broth, which people might not always have on hand. It would have been nice to have enough of the sauce to top the mashed potatoes as well, but that's just my personal preference- the potatoes were a bit bland without a sauce/gravy.
The creamy thyme sauce on these meatloaves was amazing! This meal seemed so easy to prepare, yet it was full of flavor.
