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Meatball Casserole

MEATBALL CASSEROLE


This casserole is a quick and easy weeknight KETO friendly meal that can be adapted with sides to serve anyone in your family. I tend to eat this with a side of broccoli and cauliflower. My kids prefer over pasta with veggies on the side. Once in a blue moon I will make them in individual fathead boats- almost sub sammie style! If you want to make this even faster you could easily make up a ton of meatballs and freeze for even faster assembly!

Ingredients-
  • 2 lbs ground beef ( i prefer to use 80-20, though the recipe stats have 85-15)
  • 1/4 cup pesto ( any kind, I just go for jarred from ALDI generally)
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan ( the kind in the green jar, but anything works)
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 Tbsp Italian seasoning dry blend of choice
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • crushed red peppers (about a tsp but totally optional)
  • 1 reg jar Marinara sauce, approx 2 cups( I used Trader Joe three cheese pomadoro)
  • 1 cup Mozzarella Cheese, shredded
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and lightly dust 9x13 casserole dish with cooking spray ( I use coconut oil spray)
  2. Place ingredients through crushed red peppers into a big bowl and knead together, don't mess with it too much or it will get tough
  3. Form Meatballs and set all on a plate until ready to cook
  4. Heat 2 tbsp or so of cooking oil ( I used 1 T Avacado oil and 1 T Bacon grease) over a medium high heat
  5. Brown meatballs on each side ( no need to cook through here, just brown)
  6. Place 1/4 cup Marinara in bottom of casserole dish and layer meatballs on top. Next top with remaining marinara and then mozzarella cheese.
Bake for 25 min. in a 350 degree oven. 
Serve with veggies and a side salad

Of course you could get fancy and make cauliflower cheesy bread, or fathead sub sammies! But for a super quick weeknight meal I can make this start to finish served with microwaved steam fresh veggies in less than 40 minutes start to table! ( even shorter if you'd premade your meatballs!)
my daughters fav way
Typical way I eat this


STATS-
(8 servings)
417 calories
5.3 Carbs - 29.5 Fat - 32.1 Protein





 Check out my YouTube channel for a video on how to make this!
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDa4HkUv76xUt8YNiHNzkNQ?view_as=subscriber



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