Swedish Meatballs
photo by PalatablePastime
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef
- 2 cups potatoes, peeled, cooked, and mashed
- 1 small grated onion
- 1⁄4 cup chopped peeled cooked beets
- 2 tablespoons chopped dill pickles
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons salt (to taste)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper (to taste)
- 4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1 cup milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- hot cooked noodles
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
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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.
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Cincinnati
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