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Swedish Meatballs
Tender meatballs seasoned with allspice in creamy gravy, served with lingonberry. A Scandinavian holiday tradition.
⏱️ Prep: 30min🍳 Cook: 25min⏰ Total: 55min👥 Serves: 30
⚠️ Contains: 🥛 Dairy, 🌾 Gluten, 🥚 Egg
Ingredients
- 1 lbground beef
- 1/2 lbground pork
- 1/3 cupbreadcrumbs
- 1/4 cupmilk
- 1 largeegg
- 1/4 cuponion(finely minced)
- 1/2 tspground allspice
- 1/4 tspground nutmeg
- 3 tbspbutter
- 2 tbspflour
- 1.5 cupsbeef broth
- 1/2 cupheavy cream
- for servinglingonberry jam
📝 Make Ahead
Meatballs can be shaped and frozen raw, or fully cooked in sauce and refrigerated up to 3 days. Reheat gently in sauce.
Instructions
- Soak breadcrumbs in milk for 5 minutes.
- Mix beef, pork, soaked breadcrumbs, egg, onion, allspice, nutmeg, salt, and pepper.
- Roll into 1-inch balls. You should get about 30 meatballs.
- Brown meatballs in batches in butter over medium-high heat. Transfer to plate.
- In same pan, whisk flour into drippings. Cook 1 minute.
- Gradually whisk in beef broth, then cream. Simmer until thickened.
- Return meatballs to sauce. Simmer 10 minutes until cooked through.
- Serve with toothpicks and lingonberry jam on the side.