Swedish Meatball Recipe?

[Kat]

Anyone have a favorite swedish meatballs recipe? After travelling through Stockholk, I became a meatball snob and can't seem to replicate what I ate there. Thanks in advance!

[lindar]

Try the swedish meatball recipe from Aquavit at starchefs.com.

[Dommy!]

Agreed! Great Recipe! :) Although I use a mixture of pork and beef, I'm not big on Lamb... Here's the actual link to the recipe! :)

http://starchefs.com/chefs/MSamuelsso...

Best!

--Paloma!

[Kat]

Thanks so much!

[oakjoan]

My mother, born in Duluth after her parents' and older sister's arrival from Sweden, made really good Swedish meatballs. They were pretty simple - bread soaked in milk, beef/pork/veal (or beef/pork) grated raw onion, salt and pepper and an egg. All mixed together, formed into little balls and fried. She always made a creamy gravy from the fat and bits left in the pan after frying the meatballs. I don't know if this is what they eat in Stockholm these days, but it was what they ate in Eskilstuna in 1905 when they came over.

[cleo]

I didn't access the starchef recipe. I worked with the original chef of Aquavit, Christer Larssen, and there were tons of Swedes in the kitchen. We used 50% beef, 25% veal, 25% pork, boiled Idaho potatoes ground through the meat grinder with red onion sauteed in butter, milk, eggs, salt, white pepper, and allspice.
Actually...hmm. Maybe we didn't use pork, but my Mormor (mother's mother) did, her recipe was otherwise identical. I think we used pork at the restaurant, but am not super certain. I do recommend that ratio, regardless.

[petradish]

Your recipe is similiar to mine except minus the potatoes and plus as much sugar as salt.

[Tugboat]

No grape jelly?

[cleo]

Are you serious? Because people do eat kottbullar with lingon. But if you are picking on me, why? Sorry if I came across as somehow objectionable.

[petradish]

I suspect this is a misunderstanding.

My husband (a non-Swede) once told me how his family makes Swedish meatballs in a crockpot with a sweet & sour sauce based on grape jelly & tomato sauce. Previously I'd heard of this recipe called cocktail or grape jelly meatballs, but never Swedish.

I wonder how one evolved from the other...maybe it was the lingonberries.

[dkd]

i think i saw that in Goodhouskeeping circa 1962...