Swedish meatballs - bork bork

Here's the way of making "authentic" Swedish meatballs.

It's quite simple to do it since no special skills nor any exotic ingredients are needed.

In Sweden we usually eat these with either boiled potatoes or mash, and ketchup or pickled cucumbers or lingonberry preserves as a condiment. They're often served with a brown gravy made in the frying pan (after the meatballs are finished) with a lot of cream, butter and some soy sauce.

Let's start....

Step 1 Ingredients

For a big batch of meatballs, enough for 5-6 persons you need:

• About 900 grams of minced meat
• Two eggs
• One onion
• 3 dl of milk
• 1 1/4 dl of dried breadcrumbs
• Almost 1 tablespoon of salt
• About 1 teaspoon of ground pepper (I usually use mixed black and white pepper.)

Since I live in Dubai my local supermarket don't carry any pork products so here I used 100% ground beef meet. In Sweden I usually use a mix of 80% beef and 20% pork in the mince to get the meatballs both a bit juicer and more tasty.

Comments

[pedestrian]

Any way you could convert the measurements to the US measurement system? I just made them, but I think my proportions were wrong and they came out really wet and salty :/

[lesaleeee]

I made these last night with spaghetti and my roommates loved them. Thanks so much!

[dizzydave]

Looks tasty and easy. Thanks for linking to my instructable! What do you think about adding some minced garlic to the mix?

[matseng]

They sure wont taste like swedish meatballs then... But once I actually did one batch with garlic and some thai red curry paste. It tasted quite different but very nice. I also enjoy sprinkling some allspice on them while frying, but that's not especially swedish either.

[turbonegro]

never heard of fake lingonberry jam we dont have that in sweden (as far as i know) anyways im aiming to go to dubai i would love to see the "burj al arab" "the palm islands" and "the world" what line of work do you do down there ? tackar på förhand för svar as we say in "bushman"

[matseng]

The Burj is really nice, but it costs like $50 to go in there unless you are a hotel guest. If you eat at one of their restaurants the "entrance fee" is deducted from the bill. You won't see much of any of the palm's (Jumeriah, Jebel Ali, Deira) or The World from the ground. But you can get a 30 minute helicopter ride for a reasonable amount and see them and some other landmarks from air. Be sure to have a good camera with you on the flight. And try to do it on a day when the weather is clear. Most of the days are rather hazy here, especially during the summer. I'm the CTO (swedish: "datachef") at a company doing payment solutions...

[Katharis]

Nice" I've been thinking of adding something like this but im simply just to lazy. And you should warn people about the "fake" lingonberry which contains more apple than lingonberry - It tastes awful! (IMO).