Swedish meatballs by Juji

December 13, 2006

My sister Juji has kindly given permission for me to share her recipe with you guys. Do let me know if you give it a go!

Swedish meatballs (by Juji)

Meatballs
Beef or veal mince and pork mince, to a total of 1 kg
1 onion chopped finely
1 cup fresh bread crumbs
1/4 cup milk
3 tablespoons thickened cream
1 teaspoon all spice
1 teaspoon nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste

Sauce
300ml chicken stock
1/4 cup thickened cream
nutmeg and salt and pepper to season

Combine crumbs and milk, let soak in bowl.

Cook onions in large frypan with a little oil or butter till soft.

Squeeze excess milk out of crumbs

Combine crumbs, mince and all other ingredients in large mixing bowl. Stir well.

Refrigerate approximately 30 mins (at least).

In frypan, fry all meatballs until 3/4 cooked (or thereabouts). When cooked remove from pan, set aside.

On high heat, add stock, bring to oil, scraping brownings off bottom of the pan.

Add cream, season, cook until thickened.

Add meatballs, cook all the way through.

Serve with boiled new potatoes and boiled red cabbage or lingonberry or cranberry jam.

Serves 4-6 people, depending on gluttony levels (that’s tfp writing, not Juji ;-P)

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1 Sarah December 14, 2006 at 1:05 am: Yay! I’ll definitely let you know when I try these. :)

Now I just need to do some conversions…of course the US has to be different and not use the metric system like everyone else.

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2 CatDonna December 14, 2006 at 11:43 am: Fantastic! Many thanks to you and Juji for the generous sharing.

Am rushing a work assignment and the nightmare only ends after tomorrow (and if so then why oh why do I keep surfing?!), but hope to try this recipe next week. Thanks again! :)

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3 The food pornographer December 14, 2006 at 8:41 pm: Sarah,
Cool, I look forward to hearing what you think of them. Yeah – sorry about the conversion thing. It is a pain, isn’t it? We have lots of old cook books with very good recipes and measurements we have to convert.

CatDonna,
Heh – thank Juji, not me! All I did was ask her for it – she’s the generous one!

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4 Mel February 4, 2011 at 3:02 pm: Will give these a go, so different to the meatballs I grew up on..

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5 Maureen February 1, 2012 at 8:17 am: I’m a few years late but I’m off to make these right now! These look just like my mother used to make when I was a kid. Whenever I get homesick I cook what I call “memory food.” I always feel better.

Thanks heaps for sharing your sister’s recipe.

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