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Swedish Meatballs

November 7, 2015 by Justine Leave a Comment

 

 

 

 

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Swedish Meatballs
 
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Prep time
30 mins
Cook time
30 mins
Total time
1 hour
 
Well I am having a little thing at the moment with Swedish food. It follows a visit to a local Swedish restaurant where everything we ate was not only delicious but healthy! Lots of unusual flavour combinations, ingredients etc I hope you'll enjoy both the novelty of cooking these recipes as much as eating them.
Author: Elise: SimpyRecipes.com
Recipe type: Mains
Cuisine: Swedish
Serves: 30 meatballs
Ingredients
  • Meatballs:
  • 2 Tbsp organic butter
  • 1 large yellow or white onion, peeled, grated
  • ⅔ cup milk
  • 4-5 slices of bread, crusts removed, bread cut into pieces
  • 2 free range eggs
  • 1 pound good quality (sourced from local farm/organic)ground pork
  • 1½ pounds good quality (sourced from local farm/organic) ground beef
  • 2 tsp sea salt
  • 1 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp ground cardamom
  • 2 tsp black pepper
  • Sauce:
  • 12 Tbsp butter
  • ⅓ cup unrefined flour
  • 900ml beef stock
  • 100ml sour cream
  • Sea Salt & Freshly Ground Black Pepper to taste
  • 2 to 4 Tbsp of Lingonberry, red currant, raspberry or cranberry jelly, less or more to taste (optional)
Instructions
  1. Melt the butter in a sauté pan on medium-high heat. Stir in the grated onion and cook until translucent and softened, 3-4 minutes. Set aside to cool.
  2. Place the pieces of bread in a large bowl and mix with the milk. Let sit for 15 to 20 minutes for the bread to absorb all of the milk. Once the bread has soaked up the milk put the bread in a food processor and pulse until it has been completely broken up. Return the pulverized milk soaked bread to the bowl.
  3. Stir the cooled onions into the milk bread mixture. Add the eggs, ground pork and beef, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and cardamom.
  4. Use your (clean) hands to mix everything together until well combined.
  5. Use your hands to form the meatballs about an inch-thick and place them on a plate or sheet pan. This recipe should make around 40 meatballs.
  6. Heat 3 Tbsp of butter in a large sauté pan on medium heat.
  7. When the butter is melted and foamy,add half the meatballs to the pan.
  8. Working in batches as to not crowd the pan, slowly brown the meatballs on all sides.
  9. Handle the meatballs gently so they do not break apart as you turn them.
  10. Once the meatballs have browned on all sides, remove them from the pan and set aside. You do not need to cook the meatballs all the way through at this point, you only need to brown them. You'll finish cooking the meatballs in the sauce later.
  11. Once you have removed the meatballs from the pan, keep the remaining butter in the pan. You'll use this butter to make the sauce.
  12. Add 6 Tbsp of fresh butter to the pan.
  13. To make the sauce, first make the roux. Heat the butter in the pan on medium heat. Slowly whisk in the flour. Stir until smooth. Continue to stir, allowing the flour mixture to cook, several minutes, until the roux is the color of coffee-with-cream.
  14. When the roux has cooked to a lovely shade of light brown, slowly add the stock to the roux, stirring as you add the stock. The stock will sputter at first and the roux may seize up, but keep adding the stock slowly and keep stirring. Eventually the sauce will loosen and become silky.
  15. Return the meatballs to the pan with the sauce and lower the heat to low. Cover the pot and cook on low heat for 10 minutes. You may need to work in batches.
  16. Transfer the meatballs to a serving dish to serve. Stir in the sour cream. Either stir the jelly into the sauce or serve it on the side.
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