Recipe: Tasty Swedish Meatballs

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Swedish Meatballs. Swedish meatballs made with ground beef and pork are gently spiced, baked, and served with brown sour cream gravy in this old family favorite. Flavored with nutmeg and cardamom, these little beef-and-pork meatballs are best served with a Swedish meatball sauce — a rich roux-based and beef stock gravy, spiked with sour cream and a little lingonberry jelly. For the record, it's not strictly traditional to serve sauce with Swedish meatballs in Sweden.

Crumble beef over mixture and mix well.

This Authentic Swedish Meatballs recipe is delicious enough for a weeknight meal, and impressive enough for guests!

With a creamy sauce and a side of cucumber and loganberries, these meatballs are a taste of Sweden made at home.

You can cook Swedish Meatballs using 32 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Swedish Meatballs

1. Prepare of MEATBALLS.

2. You need 3/4 lb of lean ground beef.

3. It’s 3/4 lb of ground pork.

4. It’s 1 of large egg.

5. You need 1 of slice sour dough bread, crusts renoved and made into fresh crumbs in the food processor.

6. You need 1/2 cup of cream, heavy, Iight or half and half.

7. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.

8. Prepare 1 tsp of cajun seasoning.

9. You need 1 tbsp of sour cream.

10. Prepare 1/4 cup of romano cheese, grated.

11. You need 1 tsp of baking powder ( makes the meatballs very tender and light ).

12. Prepare 1/4 tsp of granulated garlic.

13. Prepare 1 tsp of grated fresh onion.

14. You need 1/4 tsp of allspice.

15. Prepare 2 tbsp of fresh chopped parsley.

16. Prepare of SAUCE.

17. You need 2 tbsp of all-purpose flour.

18. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter, salted or unsalted.

19. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of low sodium chicken broth.

20. You need 1 1/2 cup of low sodium beef broth.

21. Prepare 1 cup of heavy cream.

22. It’s 2 tsp of fresh lemon juice.

23. Prepare 2 tbsp of dry white wine.

24. You need 1 tsp of Dijon mustard.

25. You need 1 tbsp of tomato ketchup.

26. You need 1 tsp of tamari soy sauce.

27. You need 1/4 tsp of black pepper.

28. It’s 1 tsp of hot sauce, such as Franks brand.

29. You need 4 of green onions, sliced.

30. You need 2 tbsp of fresh chopped parsley.

31. It’s of SAUTEING MEATBALLS.

32. It’s 2 tbsp of olive oil.

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Swedish meatballs are such a classic perfect meal!

And the best part… my entire family LOVES them!

I used similar ingredients for the meatballs from my mom's recipe here.

Swedish Meatballs instructions

1. MAKE MEATBALLS.

2. Combine cream and egg in a bowl, whisk to mix and add sourdough bread crumbs, set aside to soak.

3. In a large bowl combine all remaining meatball ingredient. including soaked bread crumbs and any. liquid the bread did not soak up. Combine well but dont overmix.

4. Roll meat mixture into1 inch balls.

5. In a large skillet heat olive oil. Brown meatballs on all sides removing to a plate as done, do not crowd.

6. .MAKE SAUCE.

7. In pan meatballs were cooked add butter to any drippings and melt, whisk in flour, cook 2 minutes, add both broths while whisking, bring to a boil and cook to a .smooth sauce, add remaining ingredients EXCEPT green onions and parsley. Cook until a nice sauce consistency about 5 minutes.

8. Add parsley and green onions and cook 1 minute.

9. Return the meatballs to the sauce in skillet, cook on low about 15 minutes, covered..

10. Serve as is an appetizer, or also delicious on pasta rice or potatoes.

But the creamy sauce has a secret ingredient that our family loves which I think adds such amazing flavor.

It tasted like the famous IKEA Swedish meatballs but somehow even better.

This will be the only gravy recipe that I use for now own.

I eat Ikea's meatballs four times a year as my brother and I go to all four of their all-you-can-eat-buffets near Easter, midsummer, in the fall when the crawfish run and near Sct..

In Sweden, making meatballs is a very social family affair.