Keto Skillet Meatballs

Low Carb Skillet Meatball Casserole Recipe

These easy keto skillet meatballs can be made with any type of ground meat, including ground beef, sausage, chicken, turkey, or even wild game like elk or venison. Every kind of ground meat has a unique flavor and a slightly different texture, so make sure to choose your favorite. You can even try a combination of meats like ground beef and ground sausage or ground turkey with chicken.

The key to making these keto skillet meatballs so tasty is to use lots of garlic and Lawry’s seasoning salt. These seasonings and flavors complement one another for the perfect keto meatballs. Plus if you are using game meat like ground elk or venison, the garlic and seasoning salt will help take the gamey flavor out of the meat.

Once you pan-fry these meaty meatballs, you can finish the dish off with your favorite low carb marinara sauce and top it with mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle on fresh basil. You can even add your favorite keto noodles, such as the heart of palm noodles, zucchini noodles, or shirataki noodles, to make a delicious keto spaghetti and meatballs.

How to Make Meatballs

To make up these juicy low carb meatballs, we use some key ingredients that all play a roll in make these best tasting meatballs. There are some substitutions, but I would stick the original keto meatball recipe as much as possible for ultimate flavor and texture to make the best meatball recipe.

• Egg is used to hold the meatballs together. You can omit this if you are allergic to eggs; however, you meatballs may crumble. Add an additional 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese may help to hold them together.
• Pork panko is used in place of the breadcrumbs. It is ground pork rinds. Regular breadcrumbs are not keto friendly as they are higher in carbohydrates and contain gluten. If you can’t consume pork, try substituting with more parmesan cheese or almond flour.
• Seasoning salt gives these keto meatballs a unique flavor. You can replace this with extra salt if you don’t want to use the seasoned kind.
• Use any ground meat you prefer. I have used ground beef for a beef meatball recipe, ground elk, ground pork and a mixture of all. Even experiment with chicken meatballs.

To form the meatballs, simply pinch off some meat mixture and roll it in the palm of your hands to form a 1 inch ball. You can also use a 1 inch cookie scoop if you don’t want to get your hands dirty.

Marinara Sauce

When it comes to selecting a keto pasta sauce, you need to make sure you are getting one with the lowest carbohydrates. Tomatoes and tomato sauces already are naturally higher in carbs so we want to make sure the sauce you are selecting doesn’t have added sugars that will increase the carb count.

Some of my favorite brands are YoMama and Rao’s. You can even make your own homemade keto marinara, which is cheaper and easy to make. Or in a pinch, you can use tomato sauce. Then just add in some Italian seasoning and garlic powder for flavor.

Low Carb Noodles

These cheesy skillet meatballs are delicious on there own with just keto meatballs, sauce and cheese. But you can to pour them over noodles and make keto spaghetti and meatballs! Options for keto noodles are hearts of palm spaghetti noodles, zucchini noodles (aka zoodles) and shirataki noodles. These options are all gluten free and very low in carbs.

The zucchini noodles you can make yourself by spiralizing a zucchini or often you can purchase zoodles in the freezer section or produce section of the grocery store.

Other option for noodles are some keto spaghetti that is low in carbs but contains gluten. These noodles look and taste like regular noodles.