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Cheesy Zucchini Meatballs Recipe | Easy Meatless Zucchini Balls
Oct 19, 2026
These cheesy zucchini meatballs are a delicious meatless alternative to traditional meatballs! Made with fresh zucchini and cheese, they're packed with flavor and perfect as an appetizer, side dish, or vegetarian meal. Follow along with Pasquale as he shows you how to make this easy homemade zucchini recipe the whole family will enjoy.
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Hello everybody. Today we make zucchini meatball without meat. No meat. I want to use only zucchini
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For the ingredients I use four zucchini and I cut the end off. You gotta take it out. And I shred
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I got three cloves of garlic and I chopped already. I got onion and I chopped
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I got a fresh parsley from my garden. I got a black pepper
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I got a sea salt. I got two eggs. I got pecorino cheese, bread crumb
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And I gotta use some mozzarella, the stuff inside the meatball. Okay, you gotta make sure the zucchini got a lot of water
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And you gotta make it, take out some of the water. And I'll pour over here and this towel over here
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And I'll make like this, I close. And you gotta squeeze, it can take out a little water
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Squeeze, squeeze the meatball. Because he got too much water, after when you fry, he got a little problem
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But you see? Look at this. Blee! I got a lot of muscle
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Now you move a little bit inside. Like that. And after you squeeze
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See how many water? Okay. Now this is okay. It's good. Now we put over here
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All right look you see And now we gotta start to fry the onion and garlic and we go on the stove Okay I got the pots and the gassan with oil and we gotta start to saute the onion and the garlic
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We gotta mix with the zucchini. Okay
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Now we saute this really good. After we gotta mix
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This pasta is really nice to saute everything. Beautiful. After done this, we leave it cool off a little bit
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I put it in the dish, I leave it cool off. After we gotta mix it together with the zucchini
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Okay, now the garlic and onion gotta cool off. What do you think? Everybody knows what I gotta do
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When I wait, I can stand up like this and do not
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I gotta put my glass of wine over here. I wanna do salute cinchino, everybody
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And I got my salami and my pecorino cheese. Okay. Salute cinchino, everybody
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Ah, salute. And over. Okay, let's go back to work. Let me wash my hand
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we gotta start the mix. Okay, now we gotta start. We start with the garlic
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and onion and we put over here with the zucchini. Now we can put parsley, I got a
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black pepper, I got two eggs, I got the pecorino cheese. I put a little
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bread chrome for now after we say and I got a little salt it a sea salt okay the mix I mixing by hand you know everybody knows when you mix with your hand it makes it much much better than the spoon
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Okay, and we put the rest of the bread crumb. Since it's too wet or too water, you can put more bread crumb
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Okay, got to mix really good. Okay, now we got to start to roll the ball
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But you got to make sure to roll the ball like a boss
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like I'm doing. Okay, now you can do any size you want
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You want big, small, it's to you the way you like. And I do like this
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You roll, and I put it right over here on this board like this
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That's what I got to do now, all this, like that. After one time I roll all things, we got to stuff with the mozzarella and I got to roll it in the breadcrumb
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Okay, now we got to stuff the mozzarella, but I dip my thing over here with a little oil
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and we make a hole like this and we stop the mozzarella right over here
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I pick it up and make sure the close like this and you go on the breadcrumb and
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you roll it again if this is done like this and now I got to do all things this
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the same thing. after that we got a fry okay now we got to start the fry This is the peanut oil I use
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Now make sure when you start the fry, you know, you know, you don't dump like this
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I do like that. I want to make sure it's not tapping
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Okay, now we check we leave fry like this and once in a while we got to make it with turn
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It got to be nice color. Everybody know when it's a fry, it got to be the color gold color
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Okay, now this everybody see over here the color that's really beautiful
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Let's take out, I got the dish with a paper towel. And we put it right over here
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I can't wait to taste this with my glass wine. Okay, now ready to go
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I want to taste my zucchini meatball. I got my dish right over here
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I got my wine. Let's see this meatball what it look like
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let me see inside oh Wow. Wow. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm
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It melts in your mouth. I want to say, assalute cin cin to everybody
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Make this, it's really, really good. Assalute, cin cin. Good
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