Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs)
Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs)

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, köttbullar (swedish meatballs). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Meatballs and kebabs have long been a staple of Middle Eastern. Swedish Meatballs Recipe - Köttbullar from Sweden. I took the picture above when I was at IKEA in Älmhult, a little town in Småland, South Sweden, where IKEA's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, started.

Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have köttbullar (swedish meatballs) using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs):
  1. Make ready For the meatballs:
  2. Make ready 5 tablespoon breadcrumbs
  3. Prepare 5 tablespoon milk
  4. Get 300 gram pork mince
  5. Get 300 gram beef mince
  6. Take Half a red onion (grated)
  7. Take 1 egg, lightly beaten
  8. Take 4 allspice, crushed
  9. Prepare Butter for frying
  10. Prepare Sat and pepper
  11. Make ready For the cream sauce:
  12. Prepare 300 ml hot water
  13. Make ready 1 beef stock cube
  14. Make ready 3 tablespoon plain flour
  15. Make ready 100 ml milk
  16. Make ready 1.5 tablespoon soy sauce
  17. Take 4 tablespoon cream (double or single)

There are a few keys to a good meatball - steam the meatballs so they are tender, fry them in brown butter, then combine. Swedish meatballs have gotten pretty famous abroad and the Swedish furniture store IKEA has probably contributed a bunch to that, don't you think? My husband grew up in Sweden, and this was the recipe his great-grandmother used to make Swedish meatballs when he visited her as a young boy. There are three major differences to this recipe.

Steps to make Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs):
  1. Assemble all ingredients
  2. Put the breadcrumbs and 5 tbsp milk in a bowl and leave to soak
  3. Put all the mince in a mixing bowl with the red onion, allspice and egg with some salt and pepper (I tend to go light on salt and heavy on pepper). And mix for a couple of minutes.
  4. Add the soaked breadcrumbs and mix a bit more until evenly mixed through
  5. Take about a tablespoon of mixture and roll into a ball. Do this until all the mixture is gone, you should end up with around 35-40 meatballs
  6. Heat a tbsp of butter in a big frying pan on medium high heat, fry half of the meatballs until nicely browned
  7. Turn heat down and cook for 7-8 minutes, be sure to shake the pan every now and then. Remove and keep warm.
  8. Repeat 6 & 7 with remaining meatballs
  9. Optional steps for the cream sauce: take the pan off the heat and add the hot water and scrape up any meat stuck to the pan and simmer for 2 minutes
  10. Sieve into a saucepan and add the stock cube. Stir until dissolved
  11. Mix the flour and milk until dissolved and whisk into the saucepan then simmer for 5 minutes
  12. Add the soy sauce and cream, heat for 2 minutes whilst stirring
  13. Serve meatballs with lingonberry sauce (or cranberry if you can't find it), mashed potatoes, pressed cucumbers, and a light coating of cream sauce. Put the rest of the sauce in a jug for people to help themselves

Porcupine Meatballs with a Cream Sauce. In Sweden, meatballs are served one of three ways. Here they're dressed in creamy gravy and served with rich mashed potatoes and tart lingonberry preserves. Swedish meatballs - (Svenska Köttbullar) - are probably Sweden's most famous culinary export. For many people, the first thing that comes to mind when you hear 'Swedish meatballs' is Ikea.

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