ZOODLES AND MEATBALLS

Ingredients:

  • 1-pound ground beef

  • 3 tbsp. flaxseed meal optional

  • 1 dash liquid smoke optional

  • 1 dash Montreal Steak Seasoning or whatever you prefer

  • 2 medium zucchini spiralized

  • 1 cup spaghetti sauce Rao's brand is low carb, or your favorite.

    Directions:

    1. Mix hamburger, flaxseed meal, liquid smoke and seasoning. Form into meatballs and place in the Air Fryer Basket.

    2. Set Air Fryer to 400F and your cooking time to 12 minutes. You'll want to check on your meatballs a little over the halfway point to roll them around a bit for even cooking.

    3. Put the spaghetti sauce in a small saucepan and warm or reduce as you like it, over low heat.

    4. Zoodle up your Zucchini. If you don't have a tabletop or handheld spiralizer, you can use a julienne peeler or even mandoline.

    5. With about 5 minutes left on your meatballs and after you've rolled them about the fryer basket, just pile your zoodles on top!

    6. Cook a couple of minutes, and then pop open the air fryer and flip the zoodles. I do this a couple of times. When the zoodles are warm,
      "al dente" texture and maybe have a hint of browning,
      I consider them done.

    7. Serve it up! The bitty bit of leftovers we had reheated fine the next day.

Matthew Revich