Swedish Meatballs (User Friendly for Younger Cooks)
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 cup cream
- 1 onion
- 1 egg
- 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
directions
- Measure the bread crumbs and 1/2 cup of the cream into the mixing bowl.
- Let it sit for 5 minutes.
- With the paring knife, peel the onion and chop it up into small pieces.
- Break the egg into the small bowl and beat it with the fork.
- Add the meat and the cut-up onion to the bread crumbs and cream.
- Mix well.
- Stir in the egg, the salt and the allspice.
- Pick up a small amount ot the mixture - about as big as a plum - with your hand.
- Roll it between your palms.
- Shape it into a ball.
- Place each ball when you have made it on the plate.
- Continue until all the meat is rolled into balls.
- Melt the butter in the frying pan, over low heat.
- Place a few meat balls in the pan.
- Roll them from side to side with the spoon until they are browned on all sides.
- Remove them to a plate.
- Continue until all the balls are browned.
- Turn off the heat.
- Add the flour to the frying pan.
- Stir it with the fat and meat juice until it is all mixed together.
- Scrape up the meat that has tuck to the bottom of the pan with the mixing spoon.
- Add the second 1/2 c of cream and the milk to the mixture in the pan.
- Stir it until it makes a smooth sauce.
- Return the meat balls to the frying pan with the sauce.
- Cover the pan with the lid.
- Simmer it over a very low flame for 25 minutes.
- Arrange the meat balls on the serving platter and pour the gravy over them.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Recipe Junkie
Canton, Ohio