4 Ingredient Stove Top Stuffing Chicken Meatloaf Recipe

If you’ve been hanging around here a bit on this blog, you’ll know all about my obesission with Stove Top Stuffing, and well my fantastic friend, this Chicken Meatloaf Recipe made with boxed stuffin is just another awesom recipe to add to the list.

Just like my Stove Top Stuffing Turkey Meatloaf recipe, this one is made with ground chicken and is also a minimal ingredient recipe… only 4 ingredients to make this meaty loaf! Sigh… you gotta know I love simplicity!

Ingredients Needed

The ingredients you’ll need are super simple. Same as my regular stove top meatloaf (with ground beef) we need only the basics.

• Ground Chicken – I like a mix of ground dark meat as well as light meat when buying ground chicken because all light meat (chicken breast) is not only pricey but can be a bit dry. .. well,, really dry if overcooked. Most ground chicken that you get at the grocers is a mix of both which is great. That being said, if you want to really sock in that chicken flavor with a fantastic juiciness, get your cute hiney on over to your local butcher and ask him nicely for all dark meat ground chicken.
• Stove Top Stuffing – No need to use the brand name, I only use it because it’s super easy to find at my store, and it’s recognizable. If you have a store brand that you prefer more, by all means, you should use it. Stove Top puts out different flavored stuffing mixes, so you’d want to use a stuffing mix flavored for chicken meat.
• Eggs – We need a binder to keep the meat and stuffing together.
• BBQ Sauce – Again, use your favorite! I like to use a sweeter one (Sweet baby ray’s) or other times, I’ll use a savory, more spicy one. It all depends on my mood that day (or.. if I’m honest, what I have open in the fridge).

One thing I love about making this chicken meatloaf recipe (or, well, pretty much any meatloaf recipe) is that it’s an all in one bowl kinda venture. No need to slice and dice and use up a boatload of other bowls. One bowl, one mixing spoon, and you’re baking pan!

Plus… this recipe is super versatile in terms of flavor. Every time you make this dinner recipe, could switch things so it’s a new meatloaf every time. The stuffing mix is does most of the heavy lifting here because it’s already seasoned, so changing the flavor of the stuffing or BBQ sauce can give you a completely different meatloaf without adding a bunch of extra ingredients.

A smoky BBQ sauce will obviously take it one direction, while something sweeter gives you that sticky, almost candy-like glaze once it hits the broiler.

Cooking Tips For The Meatloaf

If you want a few tips on making the loaf, here are a few.

I find that it’s important to be careful not to over work the chicken when mixing it in with the stuffing. Overworked ground meat can get tough when mixed and mixed and mixed, so you want to combine everything just enough to get it to hold together.

Try not to pack it down too much in the loaf pan. Ground chicken makes it somewhat difficult to keep it loose and airy because its a softer grind thatn ground beef.. I just meant don’t pack it in there like you’re packing a carry on suitcase for a 2 week trip!

Speaking of loaf pans, don’t panic if you don’t have a loaf pan at all. You can use a sheet pan covered in tin foil and then simply shape the chicken loaf in the “meatloaf shape”. It works great.

Also, keep a close eye on the sauce while broiling. If your BBQ sauce is on the sweeter side, all that sugar can go from beautifully caramelized to burnt surprisingly fast under the broiler.

Stay close and watch for the sauce to start bubbling, darkening around the edges and getting nice and sticky. Once it does, pull it out… this is definitely not the time to wander off and unload the dishwasher! (Don’t ask me how I know…).

Lastly, when it comes out of the oven, give the meatloaf a little time to sit before you start slicing. About 10 minutes is plenty. Cutting into it immediately when it’s screaming hot makes it much more likely to crumble apart, especially with ground chicken.

Let it settle down a bit and you’ll get those nice, proper slices instead of BBQ chicken rubble. Still delicious… considerably less pretty.

I hope you love this 4-Ingredient Stove Top Stuffing Chicken Meatloaf recipe. Don’t forget to use left over slices for meatloaf sandwiches the next day for lunch! Yummmm!

Let me know below in the comments if you used a different flavor stuffing mix? Have a great day!

~Joanne