Ikea Swedish Meatballs
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- Total Time
- 35mins
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- Serves
- 4
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- Calories
- 886
Without a doubt, meatballs are the best known of all Swedish dishes, traditionally served with potatoes, lingonberry jam and cream sauce. The dish is an unexpected meeting of flavours as the lingonberry sweetness contrasts, yet harmonizes, with the meatballs, while the cream sauce serves as a neutral “mediator” between the two.
Inspired by: https://www.ikea.com/ms/en_SG/pdf/restaurant/Meatballs_w_creamsauce.pdfrecipe updated 15 Jun. 2020
Ingredients
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- Yellow onion
- 2 ½ tablespoons
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- Potato
- 2
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- Allspice
- as needed
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- Unsalted butter
- 5 tablespoons
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- Breadcrumbs
- 50 ml
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- Water
- as needed
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- Ground beef
- 250 g
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- Ground pork
- 250 g
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- Egg
- 1
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- Single cream
- 300 ml
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- Salt
- as needed
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- Ground white pepper
- as needed
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- Water
- 200 ml
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- Double cream
- 100 ml
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- White flour
- 1 tablespoon
Tools
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Stove
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Large mixing bowl
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Work surface
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Frying pan
Step preview
- Add unsalted butter to a clean frying pan
- Heat the butter until lightly browned
- Add yellow onion to the frying pan
- Heat the onion until golden
- Mash the potatoes and moisten the breadcrumbs in a little water
- Mix all the ingredients into a smooth farce and flavour generously with salt, white pepper and (optional) allspice
- Shape the farce into round balls and transfer to a floured chopping board
- Add unsalted butter to the frying pan
- Then fry the meatballs quite slowly in plenty of butter
- Swirl out the pan with boiling water or meat stock
- Strain the pan juices and dilute with cream
- Thicken with white flour if preferred
- Season well, and serve this and the meatballs with freshly boiled potatoes, lingonberry jam, a green salad and salted or pickled gherkins