279875 Tue Sep 20 16:42:04 -0700 2005 10 31 Home Cooking 0 1485191 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! Tue Sep 20 16:42:04 -0700 2005 0 Kat 1 1485194 Try the swedish meatball recipe from Aquavit at starchefs.com. Tue Sep 20 16:53:30 -0700 2005 1485191 0 lindar 2 1485212 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/MSamuelsson/html/recipe_01.shtml Best! --Paloma! Tue Sep 20 19:43:06 -0700 2005 1485194 0 Dommy! 3 1485222 Thanks so much! Tue Sep 20 22:38:07 -0700 2005 1485212 0 Kat 2 1485231 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. Wed Sep 21 01:06:45 -0700 2005 1485194 0 oakjoan 1 1485232 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. Wed Sep 21 01:08:10 -0700 2005 1485191 0 cleo 2 1485234 Your recipe is similiar to mine except minus the potatoes and plus as much sugar as salt. Wed Sep 21 01:20:43 -0700 2005 1485232 0 petradish 2 1485263 No grape jelly? Wed Sep 21 10:38:14 -0700 2005 1485232 0 Tugboat 3 1485392 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. Thu Sep 22 01:10:19 -0700 2005 1485263 0 cleo 4 1485492 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. Thu Sep 22 17:35:02 -0700 2005 1485392 0 petradish 3 1485785 i think i saw that in Goodhouskeeping circa 1962... Sun Sep 25 20:59:44 -0700 2005 1485263 0 dkd