Swedish meatballs are small, roughly with a walnut, balls of fish or minced meat. Usually they add greens, onions and, of course, various spices. The main ingredient for minced meat is bread crumbs or soaked white bread.
Let's consider with you how to cook Swedish meatballs? Everything is very simple.
Recipe for Swedish meatballs
Ingredients:
- beef - 500 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- loaf or white bread - 100 g;
- butter - 30 g;
- cream - 100 ml;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
How to cook Swedish meatballs? We take fresh meat, carefully sorted, removing all the bones and films, thoroughly rinsed. Then we chop the beef with a meat grinder, several times to make the stuffing softer and more homogeneous.
Then we soak in a cream a piece of stale white loaf or bread, and then also pass through a meat grinder and combine with minced meat.
Onion is peeled from the husk and finely chopped. Then put it in a frying pan and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. We add egg, salt, onion, pepper and nutmeg to the meat stuffing - to taste. Mix the forcemeat, diluting it a little with cream. In the end, you should get a soft, but dense meat mass, so that when frying Swedish meatballs do not fall apart.
Now we begin to sculpt the balls. We put a plate next to the water, and with wet hands roll balls, about the size of a walnut. When all the meatballs are formed, pour the vegetable oil into a frying pan, warm it up and lay out the meat balls. Fry the meatballs over medium heat for a few minutes, and then turn the fork to the other side with a fork.
Sauce for Swedish meatballs
Ingredients:
- butter - 50 g;
- flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - to taste;
- milk - 50 ml;
- broth - 50 ml;
- cranberry jam.
Preparation
While our meatballs are frying, we will prepare the sauce. To do this, melt a little butter in the saucepan, add flour and cook, stirring, minutes. 3. Make sure that the flour does not turn brown. Then, in a thin trickle, stirring constantly, pour in the milk and heated broth. Mix everything, salt to taste and cook until thick. Ready meatballs spread on top of mashed potatoes or any other side dish, pour abundantly prepared sauce and cranberry jam.