Swedish Meatballs

"Goes great over cooked noodles although you could easily serve these alone as an appetizer. Enjoy!"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Mix ground beef lightly with mashed potatoes, onion, beets, dill pickles, eggs, 1 tsp salt, and pepper until well blended.
  • Shape into 36 meatballs, then flatten each slightly.
  • Brown, a few at a time, in butter or margarine, in a large frying pan, adding butter or margarine as needed.
  • When cooked through, remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
  • Blend flour and remaining tsp of salt into dripping in pan (add more black pepper if you like); stir in the beef broth, milk, nutmeg, and Worcestershire sauce.
  • Cook, stirring constantly, until the gravy thickens.
  • Place the meatballs in the gravy and simmer 10-15 minutes on low.
  • Serve over hot cooked noodles.

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Reviews

  1. Not sure how to rate this but wanted to share that my meatballs also fell apart in the 1st frying batch so I added bread crumbs to the rest of the meat in hopes of salvaging the meal. They were tasty but I'm not sure I'll chance making these again. If I do I will try with less potatoes.
     
  2. Perhaps I just missed something but this recipe did not work for me at all. I did let the potatoes sit in water before they were mashed, so maybe that was the problem but these meatballs didn't hold together for me at all and when I put them in sauce, they totally fell apart and it looked like mush. I fixed it all up though into a casserole with noodles and cheese and it was ok. The flavor of the meat"crumbles" was great, they just wouldn't hold together.
     
  3. This was a great recipe. My kids loved it! It was easy to make and quick.
     
  4. This is a great recipe for two reasons. One, its really tasty as is. Two, if you're pressed for time (as I often am) you could use pre-made meatballs and still get a delicious sauce. The nutmeg makes the difference -- I'm convinced. Thanks for sharing Sue!
     
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