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Swedish Meatballs

Course: Beef, Main Dishes
1st Gen Author: Janene Jensen

Ingredients

  • ½ cup onion chopped
  • 3 Tbsp butter
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 1 cup light cream
  • 1½ cup soft bread crumbs
  • ¼ cup parsley finely snipped
  • 1¼ tsp salt
  • dash nutmeg
  • dash ground ginger
  • dash pepper
  • 1½ lbs ground beef
  • 2 Tbsp flour
  • 1 tsp beef bouillon

Instructions

  • Cook onion in 1 Tbsp butter til tender.  In a mixing bowl combine egg and cream; stir in cooked onion, bread crumbs, parsley, salt, nutmeg, ginger, and pepper.  Add ground beef; mix well.  Chill mixture.
  • Shape chilled meat mixture into ¾” balls.  Brown meatballs, half at a time, in the remaining 2 Tbsp butter; remove from skillet.
  • Stir flour, bouillon granules into pan drippings; add 1¼ c water.  Cook and stir till thickened and bubbly. Add meatballs. Cover; simmer about 30 min. basting meatballs occasionally.
  • Makes about 60 meatballs.  Can substitute beef for ground veal, turkey or pork!