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Adapted from the Wikibooks Cookbook: Swedish Meatballs I
- +15 ingredients
- +7 steps
Ingredients
- MeatballsAdded: 150 ml milk or cream
- Added: 50 ml dried breadcrumbs
- Added: 250 g minced beef
- Added: 250 g minced pork
- Added: 1 egg
- Added: 1 small onion, finely chopped or grated
- Added: 1 tsp salt
- Added: ½ tsp ground white or black pepper
- Added: 2 tbsp butter, for frying
- Cream gravyAdded: 1 tbsp plain flour
- Added: 250 ml beef or veal stock
- Added: 100 ml cream
- Added: Salt and pepper, to taste
- To serveAdded: Lingonberry or cranberry jam, to serve
- Added: Mashed potatoes, to serve(optional)
Method
Added step 1:
Stir the milk and breadcrumbs together in a large bowl and leave for 7–8 minutes.
8 minAdded step 2:
Meanwhile, chop or grate the onion very finely.
4 minAdded step 3:
Add the beef, pork, egg, onion, salt and pepper to the soaked crumbs and mix well.
3 minAdded step 4:
With wet hands, roll the mixture into balls about 2–3 cm across.
12 minAdded step 5:
Melt the butter in a large frying pan over medium heat and fry the meatballs in batches for 5–7 minutes, shaking the pan now and then, until browned all over and no longer pink inside. Keep them warm on a plate.
15 minAdded step 6:
Stir the flour into the fat left in the pan and cook for a minute. Whisk in the stock and cream and simmer for 3–4 minutes until smooth and slightly thick. Season with salt and pepper.
5 minAdded step 7:
Return the meatballs to the gravy to warm through and serve with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam.
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