Print: Swedish Meatballs (From a Swede!)

This is my mom's Swedish meatball recipe. This isn't the kind a lot of people are used to in a creamy white sauce. She served them every Christmas Eve in a chafing dish as part of the 'Smörgåsbord.' My mom used to have a vegetable sour cream and a lingonberry sauce on the table for those that might want to dip these in something.

Prep

21 min

Cook

34 min

Servings

Difficulty

Medium

Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon minced onion
0.33 cups fine dry bread crumbs
0.5 cups water
0.5 cups half-and-half
0.75 pounds ground beef
0.25 pounds ground pork
2 teaspoons salt
0.25 teaspoons ground white pepper
0.33 teaspoons white sugar
3 tablespoons butter

Instructions

1 Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a frying pan over low heat; cook and stir onion in melted butter until lightly browned, 5 to 8 minutes.
2 Mix bread crumbs, water, and half-and-half in a large bowl; let stand for about 2 minutes. Stir cooked onion, ground beef, ground pork, salt, white pepper, and sugar into bread crumb mixture until thoroughly mixed. Shape mixture into about 48 very small meatballs.
3 Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a skillet; add meatballs. Brown slowly, allowing about 25 minutes, until meatballs are fully cooked in the middle and no longer pink. Shake pan occasionally to cook evenly.

Nutrition per serving

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