I had Swedish Meatballs at Ikea once. So I decided to try to make my own. And they
turned out well – although different.
The ingredients:
500g minced
pork
1 egg
2 tablesp
of finely chopped onion
½ cup
breadcrumbs
2 cold
boiled potatoes
Salt, white
pepper and allspice (I used mace because I didn't have any allspice)
I cooked
the onion until it was soft. Then while
it was cooling, I popped the potatoes into a bowl and mashed them, added the
egg and the moistened breadcrumbs and the meat.
Then the seasoning. And then the
onions.
After
mixing it up with my trusty wooden spoon I formed it into smallish roundish
balls by rolling them on a floured board.
I managed to get the sizes relatively even by using an ice cream scoop
and then dividing that amount in 2 by eye.
Fry the
meatballs gently in butter – with a touch of oil as well to stop the butter
burning.
I kept the
meatballs warm in a low oven (which also meant I could be sure they were
properly cooked through).
I didn't
serve them with the Ikea style gravy but with an artisanal spicy tomato and
smoked chipotle sauce that we had.
I liked the texture of these meatballs and will be adding potato to my meatballs in future. It lightened them up quite a bit
These sound delicious! I've never tried putting potato in meatballs--sounds like a great idea.
ReplyDeleteOh, I like everything you put into these meatballs. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
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That sounds yummy -- I like the sound of your sauce instead of gravy, too.
ReplyDeleteI too like the idea of using potato in the meatballs. I'm going to have to give that a go. You can put me in the camp that prefers a tomato sauce to gravy.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of using an ice cream scoop, that's brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThat would use up a bit of left-over boiled potatoes very nicely. Sounds yummy.
ReplyDeleteI have heard the Ikea swedish meatballs are good, but I would never have guessed to put potato in. Thanks for the recipe.
ReplyDeleteI've had the Ikea ones once before as well but Im sure your homemade ones are a million times healthier and tastier!
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