Aunt Dagmars Swedish Meatballs Recipes

SWEDISH MEATBALLS (SVENSKA KOTTBULLAR)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place the bread crumbs into a small bowl, and mix in the cream. Allow to stand until crumbs absorb the cream, about 10 minutes. While the bread is soaking, melt 1 teaspoon of butter in a skillet over medium heat, and cook and stir the onion until it turns light brown, about 10 minutes. Place onion into a mixing bowl; mix with the ground beef, ground pork, egg, brown sugar, salt, black pepper, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger. Lightly mix in the bread crumbs and cream.
• Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Pinch off about 1 1/2 tablespoon of the meat mixture per meatball, and form into balls. Place the meatballs into the skillet, and cook just until the outsides are brown, about 5 minutes, turning the meatballs often. Insides of the meatballs will still be pink. Place browned meatballs into a baking dish, pour in chicken broth, and cover with foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the meatballs are tender, about 40 minutes. Remove meatballs to a serving dish.
• To make brown gravy, pour pan drippings into a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk the flour into the pan drippings until smooth, and gradually whisk in enough beef broth to total about 2 1/2 cups of liquid. Bring the gravy to a simmer, whisking constantly until thick, about 5 minutes. Just before serving, whisk in the sour cream. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Serve the gravy with the meatballs.

GRANDMA'S SWEDISH MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Saute onion in oil/cooking spray. Set aside.
• Mix ground beef, 2 tsp sugar, allspice, nutmeg & onions.
• Mix egg with bread crumbs and 1/2 C milk until absorbed.
• Add egg mixture to the meat mixture.
• Form meat into 1" balls.
• Fry meatballs in pan that onions were cooked inches.
• Place cooked meatballs in 8x8 baking dish.
• Heat frying pan with fat from meatballs to medium heat.
• Add flour and slowly add 1 C water, 1 C heavy cream, 1/2 C milk, 1 tsp sugar and dash of pepper.
• Stir constantly until it gets bubbly.
• Pour cream mixture over meatballs.
• Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
• Serve over rice.

SWEDISH MEATBALLS (KOTTBULLAR)

Steps:

• Fry the onion light yellow in a little butter.
• Soak the breadcrumbs in the liquid.
• Mix everything well and add spices to taste.
• Make 1- to 1 1/2-inch meatballs with the help of two wet spoons.
• Put them on a plate coated with a little flour and fry them slowly on all sides in lots of butter (putting the meatballs in the freezer for a while before frying makes them firmer).
• Place the meatballs on a hot plate, fry the flour in the remaining fat and pour in the stock and the cream.
• Boil for a few minutes.
• Add soy, salt and pepper to taste and pour the hot sauce over the meatballs.
• Serve hot with mashed potates, pickled cucumber and preserved lingonberry or cranberry.