German Meatballs In Creamy Caper Sauce Königsberger Klopse Recipes

GERMAN MEATBALLS IN CREAMY CAPER SAUCE - KöNIGSBERGER KLOPSE

Steps:

• In a small skillet, fry the onions in butter until glassy.
• In a bowl, mix onions with ground meat, eggs, breadcrumbs, mustard, anchovy fillets, salt, and pepper into a smooth dough. Using your wet hands, form about 10-12 meatballs.
• In a Dutch oven or large saucepan, add the broth, onions, white wine, cider vinegar, bay leaves, cloves, allspice, black peppercorns, and salt. Bring to a boil.
• Add the meatballs, lower the heat to medium-low and simmer for 15 minutes.
• With a slotted spoon, transfer the cooked meatballs to a serving plate or bowl and keep warm. Reserve 2 cups of the liquid.
• Meanwhile, in a large cast-iron or non-stick skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the flour. With a wooden spoon or a whisk, continue to stir flour over low heat until flour is golden in color. Do not burn it!
• Slowly pour in the milk and reserved, strained liquid, whisking constantly. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes while stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the heavy cream, capers with liquid, and cook on low for 5 more minutes. Season the sauce with nutmeg, lemon juice, salt, and sugar.
• Pour the sauce over meatballs and serve with boiled potatoes. Enjoy!

KONIGSBERGER KLOPSE (GERMAN MEATBALLS IN CREAMY CAPER SAUCE)

Steps:

• In a large saucepan or Dutch oven such as Le Creuset, heat broth ingredients (stock, bay leaf, cider vinegar, white wine, peppercorns, and 2 tablespoons capers) to a simmer over medium heat.
• Meanwhile, combine meatball ingredients, mix well.
• Form meat mixture into golf-ball sized balls (note: mixture will be a bit sticky and delicate to work with, but this is normal, and the result will be a moist and tender meatball!). Roll them in flour, and carefully place into hot broth; simmer each batch for 15 minutes, but do not boil. (Tip: do not crowd meatballs, ie only simmer about 10-12 meatballs at a time). Note that the broth will thicken as you add the flour covered meatballs, which will make a nice sauce.
• Carefully remove meatballs from the hot broth with a slotted spoon, and keep them warm in a covered bowl stored in the oven while making the sauce. Discard bay leaf.
• To Make Cream Sauce:.
• To hot broth stir in the sauce ingredients and heat through, but do not boil.
• Add the cooked meatballs to the heated sauce, stir gently and warm through.
• To Serve:.
• Serve Meatballs and Cream Sauce with boiled new potatoes (salzkartoffel) or hot buttered spaetzle noodles, and German Rotkohl recipe #108449. Sprinkle with snipped fresh parsley, for garnish.
• To Serve as an Appetizer:.
• Make the meatballs smaller and serve warm from the crock pot with toothpicks, buttered rolls and potato salad recipe #309891.
• Freezes well.

KöNIGSBERGER KLOPSE

Steps:

• Emerge rolls in milk or water. Allow to sit for 10 min. Drain and press out excess liquid.
• Finely chop onion.
• To a large bowl add ground meat, drained rolls, onion, eggs, bread crumbs, anchovy paste, salt, and pepper and knead with hands until well combined and smooth.
• Shape 16 dumplings and set aside.
• Add liquid and spices to a large pot.
• Cut onions into quarters and add also to the pot.
• Bring mixture to a simmer, add dumplings, and cook for about 10 min. or until done. Make sure that the liquid is only simmering not boiling.
• Remove dumplings from the liquid and keep warm.
• Strain liquid into a bowl. Remove spices. Keep onions and about 3 cups of the cooking liquid
• To a medium sized pot add butter and melt.
• Add flour and stir on medium heat until lightly brown.
• Add about 2 cups of the cooking liquid and bring to a boil Mix well to remove any lumps.
• Lower the heat to medium-low and stir in heavy cream. Make sure the liquid is no longer boiling.
• In a small bowl mix egg yolks and sugar. Add to the pot and mix well.
• Add drained capers, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste.
• Place the onions and the dumplings into the sauce and let sit for about 15 min.