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Swedish meatballs

Cream sauce, lingonberry, and mash underneath.

Swedish meatballs
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How to make swedish meatballs

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With the cream sauce

50 minutes · serves 4 · Medium

What you need

  • 500g beef and pork mince
  • 60g breadcrumbs
  • 100ml milk
  • 1 onion, grated
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp allspice
  • 40g butter
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 500ml beef stock
  • 150ml double cream
  • Lingonberry jam

What you do

  1. 1Soak the breadcrumbs in the milk 5 minutes, then mix with the mince, grated onion, egg, allspice and plenty of salt. Roll small — smaller than you think.
  2. 2Fry in butter in batches until browned all over and lift out.
  3. 3Flour into the pan fat, cooked 2 minutes, then the stock added slowly, then the cream.
  4. 4Meatballs back in, simmered 15 minutes until the sauce coats them.
  5. 5Mash, and a spoon of lingonberry on the side of the plate.

Baked, then sauced

40 minutes · serves 4 · Easy

What you need

  • 500g mince
  • Breadcrumbs, milk, egg, onion, allspice
  • Stock, cream, flour, butter

What you do

  1. 1Roll and bake at 200C for 15 minutes.
  2. 2Make the sauce in a pan and drop them in for 10 minutes.