Puerto-Swedish Meatballs
From mrsball515 13 years ago
- 1 hour to make
- Serves 4-6
I, a Puertorican married to a Brit, have made Swedish meatballs with gravy. From scratch! If you've ever been to the restaurant at Ikea and had their meatballs with that lovely gravy, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 2 Slices white bread shopping list
- 1/4 cup milk shopping list
- 3 tablespoons margarine or butter shopping list
- 1 onion, finely chopped shopping list
- 1 pinch + 1 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 1/2lbs ground beef shopping list
- 2 large egg yolks or 3 medium shopping list
- 1 teaspoon black pepper (less if you don't like pepper too much) shopping list
Gravy
- 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon flour shopping list
- 2 14.5oz cans of beef broth shopping list
- 2 garlic cloves shopping list
- 1/4 cup milk (heavy cream if you can find it) shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
- 2. Tear the slices of bread into little pieces, put them in a large bowl and pour 1/4 cup milk over the pieces. Set aside.
- 3. Chop the onion.
- 4. Melt 1 tbsp of the margarine, on LOW, in a large frying pan.
- 5. Add the onion and a pinch of salt and sweat them until they are soft. Take off the heat and set aside.
- 6. Get the bowl with the bread and mix in the beef, egg yolks, salt, pepper and onions. You can use a mixer if you have it, but if not, you can do like me and get your hands into it. Messy but worth it!
*Don't wash the pan where you sauteed the onions*
- 7. Shape the meat mixture into little balls. At about 3/4in - 1in size I was able to make 46.
- 8. In the same pan used for the onions, melt the remaining 2tbsp of margarine over medium heat. Add the meatballs and sautee until golden brown on all sides. About 10 minutes should do it. You may need to do this in 2 batches.
- 9. When the meatballs are cooked, take them out of the pan with a slotted spoon or tongs. Put them in an ovenproof dish and put them in the warmed oven. The juices need to be left in the pan for the gravy.
- 10. Using the smallest part of a grater, grate 2 cloves of garlic. Set aside.
- 11. Bring the heat on the frying pan down to LOW and pour in the flour. Mix the flour in with the juices left from the meatballs. Cook for about 1 minute.
- 12. Add grated garlic.
- 13. Slowly add the beef broth while whisking. Then add the milk or cream. It will take a few minutes but keep whisking it until it thickens.
- At this point you can just pour the gravy over the meatballs and serve them like that or serve them over rice. Either way, they're delicious!
- Enjoy!
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