Zucchini Spaghetti Baked Zoodles and Meatballs
This super popular Zucchini spaghetti is a fresh and flavorful way to enjoy a lighter, low-carb meal without giving up your comfort food favorites. This family favorite is perfect for busy weeknights. For more recipes like this, see my Low-carb page.
I’ve been in and out of the low-carb world for years, and let me tell you, finding meals you actually crave can feel like a challenge. These days, keto is everywhere, but not every recipe hits that comfort-food spot.
That’s exactly why I get so excited when I find something that feels indulgent but still fits a zucchini recipe low carb lifestyle.
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This keto meatball casserole with zucchini has become that recipe in my house. I started making it a couple of months ago, and now it’s on repeat every single week.
I started making this keto meatball casserole with zucchini dish a couple of months ago, and now I literally make it every week. My family, who are not low-carbing have requested it over and over! You know, when they would rather have zucchini over pasta, the dish is a winner!
Zucchini Spaghetti Baked Zoodles and Meatballs
The best part? It’s ridiculously easy to throw together. You can use fresh zucchini and spiralize it into noodles, buy zucchini noodles already spiralized (Trader Joe’s), or keep it simple and grab frozen veggie spirals (Green Giant).
This dish pairs perfectly with a flavorful keto meatball recipe, making it hearty, satisfying, and totally weeknight-friendly. Leftovers are super yummy the next day as well!
Baked Zoodles and Meatballs
Ingredients
- 6 cups zucchini spirals, 2 pkgs Green Giant Frozen Veggie Spirals or 4-5 fresh Zucchini, spiraled
- 1 25 oz jar spaghetti sauce, We use Victoria Tomato Basil
- 1 ½ cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1 16 oz bag Meatballs, I used Trader Joes Flame Broiled Turkey
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook meatballs by directions on the packaging.
- If you are using the frozen zucchini spirals, defrost and drain liquid from them. If you are using fresh zucchini, cut the zucchini with a spiralizer.
- Heat spaghetti sauce in a large saucepan on med-low.
- Add zucchini spirals, garlic and olive oil to a frying pan. Sprinkle with salt & pepper to taste.
- When the meatballs are finished cooking add them to the spaghetti sauce and continue to cook while tossing the zucchini.
- Add cooking spray to a 9×9 baking dish. Add a couple of tablespoons of spaghetti sauce to the bottom of the baking dish.
- Add the zucchini spirals to baking dish.
- Add meatballs on top of zucchini spirals.
- Pour sauce over zucchini noodles and meatballs.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes and enjoy!
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Thank you so much for this recipe
I’ve been wanting to try zucchini noodles or awhile now, but didn’t want to have to buy a spiralizer to make something I wasn’t sure I’d like or if I’d use it again. I also really appreciate that this can be made with frozen green giant spirals.
I was married for nearly 34 years. My husband id all of the cooking fr mire than half of those years. Though I had cooked in the past I never made anything that wasn’t easy. Spaghetti and meatballs with frozen meatballs, shake n’ bake chicken or pork, frozen pizza, etc..I didn’t know how to do anything more involved and hated cooking. When my now 19 year old grandson was 5 he asked me if I new how to make hot dogs in the microwave. I told him that I did and he looked at me with a great deal of skepticism and asked if I was sure. I said yes again and he said yeah Oma, but can you make them like pop-pop does so they don’t explode. I laughed, said yes I did and cut a slit in the hot dog, popped it in the microwave and set it for one minute. It swelled up and sort of burst. My grandson looked at me and looked at thr hot dog. He said thank you for trying Oma. I think I’ll just wait for pop-pop. That should give you an idea of how lacking my skills were.
When my husband passed away 2 years ago, I found myself 59 years old with no income, didn’t drive because I could barely walk and pretty much clueless when it came to cooking.
U had to learn yo cook and to do it cheaply. For me recipes that I can make with frozen vegetables are a big help. I only cook for myself and when I buy a lot of fresh vegetables they often go bad before I use them. Thanks to the internet and bloggers like your cooking skills have came a long way and to my surprise I really enjoy it now. I scan the internet all the time for budget-friendly recipes and have found myself trying a lot of new foods. I am really excited to get to try these zucchini noodles and truly thank you. I apologize that this is too long my kids say I tend to ever share but that’s just me
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Thanks for letting me know Tiffany, For some reason my recipe card was turned off on this post. Sorry about that. It’s up now.
Thank you sooo much!!! This is one of my favorite recipes and I wanted to make it for dinner, but the recipe was gone. Came back in hopes that it was back and dinner has been saved! It’s just as good as I remember! Thanks again!
You are welcome!
I’ve read that zoodles can get very runny and need to be cooked al dente. Is this runny after putting in oven so long? Also when hubby makes zucchini lasagna he salts them to pull out water and rinses before layering in lasagna pan. Has anyone done this with zoodles?
I use the frozen zoodles for this recipe. I thaw them and saute them with seasoning so they are not bland. If I were are using fresh zoodles I would do the same so they have flavor and some of the water comes out of them. This is not a deep dish meal like lasagna, so there is not a lot of layering or sogginess. I would say try it once and then tweak to how you like it.
My wife and I really enjoyed the dish sent a picture of it to my sister she’s going to make it soon,it was delicious.
Thank you Jesse! This recipe is one of my favorites too. Thanks for sharing it!
Oh MY, it looks great! Can’t wait to cook em this Sunday!
I made this tonight for dinner, it was delicious!✨
Made this for dinner today. Loved it!
And so did the family.
Aw! That’s great! So glad you alk liked it!
What a great recipe for using fresh zucchini from the garden. Can’t wait to try this. Love that is it is meat and a good serving a veggies (low carb). Better get a spiralizer ordered.
This was amazing! I have never used spiral zucchini in a recipe before and I was pleasantly surprised. Thanks for the great recipe.
This was delicious! I had to spiralize a LOT of zucchini as my 3 boys are athletes and big eaters. Thank you for this fantastic recipe! :)
Glas you liked the recipe. It’s a favorite around here too.
I love this! My 3 year old daughter wanted “spaghetti and meatballs” but I’m low-carbing it, so this was the perfect compromise. It was so easy and delicious, a real crowd pleaser. Thanks!
This looks really good and kid friendly. I have just got myself a spiralizer and am still trying out recipes. Any idea how/if this freezes? I make everything from scratch, so it is quite a bit of work… Freezing a portion would be saving me time another day.
Hi Sina,
When I use my spiralizer I usually do a huge batch of zucchini and freeze single portions. Yes, this will freeze ok, but just know zucchini holds water and it could be a little runny. Just try it an see if it is ok for you. Thanks for reading!
Kim
We love Zoodles!! Totally trying this next week.
This looks so good. I’ve been trying to be low carb on Mondays and Tuesdays and I could def. some low carb recipes. I just got a noodle spiralizer, too!!
Carrie
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