Swedish meat balls. Swedish meatballs made with ground beef and pork are gently spiced, baked, and served with brown sour cream gravy in this Swedish Meatballs (Svenska Kottbullar). Made from a mixture of beef and pork, flavored with nutmeg and cardamom and served with a tasty Swedish Meatball sauce. Swedish Meatballs - Nothing beats homemade meatballs smothered in a creamy gravy sauce, and they taste much better than the IKEA version!
These heavenly Swedish Meatballs are the homemade version of the iconic Ikea meatballs.
They're a whole lot easier than assembling flat-pack furniture, that's for sure!!!
In Sweden they are called "köttbullar", the Swedish word for meatballs.
You can have Swedish meat balls using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Swedish meat balls
- Prepare of Meatball ingredients.
- It's 1/2 of kilo ground beef.
- It's 1 of diced onion.
- It's 1 of large egg.
- You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/2 tsp of 7 spices powder.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of paprika.
- It's 1/4 tsp of garlic powder.
- You need 1/4 tsp of onion powder.
- You need 3 tbsp of bread crumbs.
- It's of Sauce ingredients.
- You need 2 tbsp of butter.
- You need 3 tbsp of all-purpose flour 2 cups beef /chicken broth (natural or 3 maagi cubes in 2 cups of boiled water).
- You need 1 tsp of salt.
- It's 1/2 tsp of ground black pepper.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of garlic powder.
- It's 1/2 tsp of onion powder.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of dijon mustard.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of heavy cooking cream.
- It's 1 cup of whole Milk.
- You need 2 tsp of Worcestershire sauce (see below recipe if not available).
You wonder how to make Swedish meat balls? Below you find an original Swedish recipe. TESTED & PERFECTED RECIPE - Swedish meatballs in a light cream sauce are great speared with toothpicks or served over noodles for family dinners. Most Swedish meat balls are made with beef or pork, as chicken seems to be a more popular protein, I thought I'd make a chicken version.
Swedish meat balls instructions
- U’ll mix all meatball ingredients together and make it medium to small sized balls, put in the air fryer or on a pan over medium heat with 1 tbsp butter and turn on all sides till fully cooked (5-7 mins on each side).
- The sauce: Same pan, medium-low heat. Melt butter and whisk in flour until it has turned golden brown. Slowly whisk in beef broth and cook until thickened, then add in milk, cream, worcestershire sauce, pepper, salt and all powders and mustard. Continue to stir until well-combined. Add meatballs back into the skillet, turning occasionally to coat well..
- Serve hot with white rice.
- Incase Worcestershire sauce isn’t available, you could do it as below and store the rest for later use :).
- 1/2 cup apple vinegar 2 tbsp soya sauce (low sodium preferably) 2 tbsp water 1 tbsp brown sugar 1/4 tsp ground ginger 1/4 tsp mustard seeds (or 1/8 dijon mustard) 1/4 tsp onion powder 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1/8 tsp cinnamon powder 1/8 tsp black pepper Put all above ingredients in a pan and stir well till boiling with continuous stirring. Take off the heat as soon it boils and set aside to cool completely before using.
Swedish Meatballs Served Up: At Home. Swedish meatballs are everyone's favorite IKEA menu item, and our recipe recreates that deliciousness at home—classed up. Looking for copycat IKEA Swedish meatballs? Savory spiced meatballs in a creamy, velvety sauce. without the schlep to Ikea. A blend of ground meat (often a combination of beef, pork or veal), sautéed onions, milk-soaked bread crumbs, beaten egg and seasonings.