Chicken Pesto Meatballs with Zucchini Noodles

Taste the Awesome ‘80s

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2–4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      45 min

Appears in
Well Fed Weeknights: Complete Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes or Less

By Melissa Joulwan

Published 2016

  • About

I can’t deny it, and I can’t hide it: I’m a child of the 1980s. I love Duran Duran. “Lucky Star” Madonna is the best Madonna. And in my favorite movie of all time—When Harry Met Sally—one of the characters proclaims, “Pesto is the quiche of the ’80s.” I started making homemade pesto in college; the difference now is that I omit the cheese, and I’ve added parsley to make it a little sweeter. These meatballs are fragrant with the quick pesto and simmer gently in a dead-simple tomato sa