Description
Italian Meatballs with Zoodles is a delicious gluten-free, low carb dinner made with juicy cheese stuffed meatballs simmered in a simple marinara sauce served over zucchini noodles.
Ingredients
Italian Meatballs with Zoodles
- 5 zucchinis
- olive oil
- basil leaves (chopped)
- Parmesan cheese (shredded)
Italian Meatballs
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 pound Italian sausage
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 cup mozzarella (shredded)
- 1/2 cup parmesan (shredded)
- 1/2 yellow onion
- 2 garlic cloves (minced)
Sauce
- 1/2 yellow onion (diced)
- 4 garlic cloves (minced)
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 ounces can tomato paste
- 24 ounces can tomato sauce
- 14 ounces can diced tomatoes
Instructions
Zoodles
- Wash zucchinis.
- Use your spiralizer according to its instructions to create zoodles from the zucchinis.
- As the sauce finishes cooking in a separate pan, cook your zoodles. Place them into a hot pan for 3 minutes. Toss frequently. I like to do this in two batches to cook them evenly.
Italian Meatballs
- Place all the meatball ingredients into a large bowl. Use wet hands to thoroughly mix the ingredients.
- Form aprox 20 meatballs. I like to use a meatball press for even meatballs.
- Drizzle some olive oil into a hot pan on the stove top. Add meatballs. Cook until browned and then flip to brown the other side. I like to do this in two batches and set the meatballs to the side for a moment.
Sauce
- Add a tiny amount of olive and the diced onion to the hot pan. Cook for 3 minutes. Add the minced garlic and cook until aromatic which is about 30 seconds to 1 minute.
- Add the remainder of the sauce ingredients and stir.
- Add the meatballs back into pan. Lower temperature, cover pan with a lid and let simmer for 20 minutes.
- Stir in some chopped fresh basil. 1 -2 Tablespoons should be good.
- Serve over zoodles with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.
Notes
Also check food labels to ensure foods fit into a specific diet like keto or gluten-free. Most cheeses and tomato based sauces are gluten free but there are exceptions.
- Category: dinner