Meatballs in Sweden is a special dish! They are loved not only by adults, but also by children. There are many recipes for cooking meatballs and ways of serving, each housewife has her own secrets. Traditional recipes include 3 essential ingredients: meat, bread crumbs and boiled potatoes. Our meatballs became famous at first thanks to Carlson’s adventures, and after that the famous Ikea concern introduced us to the taste of small meatballs and an unusual but obligatory sweet lingonberry sauce.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- Products for 4 servings (about 30-40 pcs.):
- • Beef (or in equal parts, 250-300 grams of beef and pork)
- • Stale loaf or 50-100 grams of bread crumbs (unsweetened)
- • Cream (milk) 200-250 grams
- • Onions 1-2 pieces
- • Egg - 1 pc.
- • Boiled potatoes - 2 pieces
- • Butter or vegetable oil (for frying)
- • Flour - 2 tablespoons (for dipping)
- • Salt
- • Allspice or white ground pepper
- • Garlic
Instruction manual
1
Prepare the minced meat from the prepared meat by scrolling it twice through a meat grinder. Peel the boiled potatoes and mash. Soak the loaf in milk or cream. If you use bread crumbs, then simply fill them with the chosen liquid (milk or cream). Peel the onions and garlic.
2
Onions are cut into small cubes. In Swedish meatballs, fried onions are more often used than raw onions, therefore, melting the butter in a pan, fry the onions until golden. Combine all the ingredients together: rolled minced meat, squeezed bread, toasted and slightly cooled onions and carefully, remove. Add salt, spices and garlic (optional).
3
Using two teaspoons, form small round meatballs. Pour the flour into a shallow plate and roll the balls in it and then fry until slightly crusted in melted and heated butter. Meatballs are served with cream sauce on meat broth and sweet lingonberry sauce.
note
You can use any meat at your discretion, but it is better obtained from a mixture of veal and lean pork.
Useful advice
1. To make it easier to form meatballs, pour in a separate bowl of ice water and periodically wet your hands.
2. For cranberry sauce use cranberries, sugar, which are simply crushed with a blender.