Don’t want to brave the trip to Ikea? Make your own Swedish Meatballs at home!
Ingredients
2 slices day-old white bread, crumbled
½ cup heavy cream
1 t butter
1 small onion, minced ⅔ pound ground beef
⅓ pound finely ground pork
1 egg
1 T brown sugar (Optional)
1 t salt
¼ t ground nutmeg
¼ t ground allspice
⅛ t ground ginger (Optional) 1 T butter
¼ cup chicken broth
3 T all-purpose flour, or as needed
2 cups beef broth, or as needed
½ (8 ounce) container sour cream
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Place the bread crumbs into a small bowl, and mix in the cream. Allow to stand until crumbs absorb the cream, about 10 minutes.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
6. 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.
7. Place browned meatballs into a baking dish, pour in chicken broth, and cover with foil.
8. Bake in the preheated oven until the meatballs are tender, about 40 minutes. Remove meatballs to a serving dish.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Serve the gravy with the meatballs. ENJOY!
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