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Pizza Speggies | Veggie Spaghetti Recipe

Published: Sep 16, 2013 · Updated: Aug 14, 2023 by Laura Fuentes · This post may contain affiliate links

This Pepperoni Pizza Zucchini Spaghetti recipe is great to add more veggies to your dinner or enjoy a grain-free lunch!
5 from 6 votes
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Do you struggle with finding more ways to serve vegetables or provide grain-free lunches? If so, you are not alone.

Pizza Speggies {veggie spaghetti} MOMables.com

Each week, dozens of parents e-mail me, struggling with ways to make veggies more fun. To help you, I’ve brought in my friend, Ali, from Inspiralized. The recipe is great for dinner or as a healthy school lunch. For more ideas like this, visit our grain-free meal plan. 

—From Ali:

Do you constantly struggle with preparing meals for your kids that you don’t feel guilty eating? Trying to stay fit but can’t resist chicken fingers, buttered pasta, and mac n’ cheese? Are you having trouble finding the time to cook healthy meals for your family?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then I have the solution for you: speggies! Speggies are “spiralized vegetables.”

What does spiralized mean? Spiralizing is using the kitchen countertop tool called the “spiralizer” to turn vegetables into noodles.

Once you have spiralized a vegetable into “speggies,” the options are endless: soups, pastas, noodles, and even sandwich buns and pancakes!

By replacing regular pasta and noodles with speggies, you are not only sneaking extra vegetables into your child’s diet, but you’re creating meals that are low-carb, low-fat, and low-calorie to help us grownups keep our figures.

vegetable spaghetti recipe via MOMables.com

Spiralizing a vegetable takes less than 30 seconds! No more waiting for the water to boil, and no more mushy noodles. The best part about this new method of cooking is that you can make speggies with your kids, because they love the magical experience of taking a vegetable and turning it into noodles!

If you need step-by-step picture tutorials on how to spiralize, click here. 

To help you get started in putting your speggies into a recipe your kids will love for dinner or lunch, I’ve paired two kid favorite flavors: pizza and spaghetti.

This simple recipe  can be enjoyed by a family and then used as a leftovers lunch the next day—talk about time-saving! Who doesn’t love pepperoni pizza and spaghetti?

Related: Top 5 Lunchboxes We’ve Tested

Pepperoni Pizza Zucchini Spaghetti

Laura Fuentes
5 from 6 votes
This Pepperoni Pizza Zucchini Spaghetti recipe is great to add more veggies to your dinner or enjoy a grain-free lunch!
Servings: 2
Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 2 minutes mins
Total Time 7 minutes mins

Ingredients

  • 1 medium zucchini, peeled and spiralized, using blade C
  • 10 thin slices pepperoni
  • ½ cup chunky-cut pieces mozzarella
  • 2 slices chunky whole-grain bread
  • ½ cup marinara sauce

Instructions
 

  • Place the zucchini noodles, pepperoni, mozzarella, and bread into lunch box compartments.
  • Heat up the marinara sauce in a saucepan or microwave.
  • Pour the marinara sauce over the zucchini pasta and serve.

Notes

Let your child create his/her own pizza, using the toppings in the lunch box compartments.
Nutrition information is calculated without the bread.

Equipment

101 Packed Lunches
Kids Lunch Box

Nutrition

Serving: 1 servingCalories: 111kcalCarbohydrates: 4gProtein: 8gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 23mgSodium: 543mgPotassium: 220mgFiber: 1gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 401IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 229mgIron: 1mg
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  1. monica

    February 06, 2014 at 12:06 am

    5 stars
    The Spiralizing a vegetable link is not working :(

    Reply
    • MOMables

      February 06, 2014 at 11:13 am

      Try this link now. Sorry!

      Reply
  2. Maris

    September 22, 2013 at 9:15 pm

    5 stars
    can you tell us what container you are using in this picture?

    Reply
    • MOMables

      September 22, 2013 at 10:23 pm

      Maris, it’s this one. You can find all the lunch containers I like here.

      Reply
  3. Mar

    September 22, 2013 at 7:42 pm

    5 stars
    The zucchini is served just like that raw???

    Reply
    • MOMables

      September 22, 2013 at 10:24 pm

      I heat up the tomato sauce very hot and it sort of steams it. Zucchini doesn’t have to be cooked a lot, especially since you are spiralizing it very thin. If you are concerned and want to soften it up, sauté it first.

      Reply
  4. MelAnn

    September 16, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    5 stars
    The link to whatever the spiralize thing is – says page not found?

    Reply
    • MOMables

      September 17, 2013 at 4:48 pm

      thank you MelAnn, it’s fixed!

      Reply

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