ISO: Swedish Meatballs recipe

[amelia]

Anyone have a Swedish Meatballs recipe they love??? I'm looking for a good recipe.
TIA

[ccbegay]

Oh man, my mouth just started watering, because I thought this was a recipe. I don't have a good recipe, and haven't eaten them in so long, but do remember the last time was, GOOoooOOd...

cough up the recipe ladies!

[amelia]

Originally Posted by ccbegay

Oh man, my mouth just started watering, because I thought this was a recipe. I don't have a good recipe, and haven't eaten them in so long, but do remember the last time was, GOOoooOOd...

cough up the recipe ladies!

You know who has really good premade, frozen Swedish meatballs (and sauce I think) is Ikea. I saw that they sell them in the store (I saw them after you check out). But we don't have Ikea in Colorado.

[mrs767er]

Sure--take the usual ratio of milk/egg/crumbs (I prefer fresh crumbs over dried--that ratio differs 2 fresh to dried) to your choice of meat (I prefer Sam's 10% fat ground beef plus some fresh pork, but you can use regular GB with some ground turkey or veal)
The key is using 2 pounds meat with minimum 2 tsp allspice. Some people use nutmeg--which i like a little grating of fresh to add--but it's the spice that makes them Swedish (or Scandahoovian). I recommend Epicurious.com: Recipes, Menus, Cooking Articles & Food Guides to search for great recipes all the time. Take care to read the reviews because there are some really whack changes in recipes...
I bake my meatballs for just 20 minutes total 350 degrees-then freeze them solid on a tray-put them in a ziploc freezer bag and reheat as needed. If you're making them fresh and want to drippings to make with cream for sauce, then saute them. I really like the little 1 inch ice cream scooper to make them, too.
Great sauce is 1/3 cup packed brown sugar, 1/4 cup vinegar, 2 TBSP oil and 2-3 TBSP dijon mustard--simmer a few mins--yum.

[oppita]

Here comes my contribution:
500 gr. of minced meet (mixture of pork, beef etc.)
1 dl fine bread crumps
1 ½ dl of milk
1 ½ teaspoon of salt
1 ½ teaspoon of black pepper
1 egg
2 spoons of onion (chopped- red or white onion), should be previously fried.
Mix the milk, bread crumps, leave it for 10 minutes, than add salt and meat, mix well together.Add pepper, egg and onion. Make balls form resulting dough.Fry the balls in the hot pan ( I normally use butter or margarine- the final tast will be different if you use oil).

I don´t know if you want a recipe for the sauce as well. Here it comes anyway:

• 2 spoons of flour
• ½ dl cream
• 1 dl milk
• 3 dl of frying rest ( add warm water to the pan from meatball frying)
• 1 dice of bouillon
• 1 teaspoon of soja

Mix flour with cream, than add milk. Whipp all together, than add rest of the ingredients ( frying rest, dice and soja). Let it boil and keep it on moderate heat for around 3 minutes.
Voila:-)

[ccbegay]

oh wow, the recipes sound great! I'm going to try, when BF is back in town! mmmmMMMMmM...