Hello everyone! This week I'm coming at you with some mini meatballs. I don't know how accurate it is, but we call them swedish meatballs where I am from. I have no idea if they are swedish or not, but we say it anyways. They are usually served with lingonberry jam and potatoes. Lingonberry jam is really hard to get a hold of, but luckily it is basically identical to cranberry sauce, so I went with that. You may be apprehensive over a fruit spread in with meatballs, but I am telling you, the sweet balances so well with the meat and the lightly creamy sauce. If all goes well, your finished product will look like this:
Ingredients for the Balls
- 1/2 onion
- butter
- 1/4 cup of milk
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup of breadcrumbs (I could only find italian seasoned, so I omitted the other spices)
1/4 tsp nutmeg1/4 tsp allspice- S & P
- 1lb pork
- 1lb beef
Ingredients for the Sauce
- more butter
- 3 tbsp flour
- 3 cups of beef broth
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 cup of heavy cream
- 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce.
Making the meat mix
- dice an onion, cook in butter until translucent and slightly caramelized
- yell at your roommate for not cleaning the cooktop like he said he would
- put onions, flour, breadcrumbs, milk, eggs into a bowl. Mix until combined
- add the meat, mix, cover and put in the fridge for an hour
- study for your french quiz
- preheat oven to 400 F (about 205 for the Euros out there)
- put foil on a baking tray, roll out small equally sized balls of your meat mix and place them on the tray.
- put em in the oven for about 20-25 minutes (or browned)
- allow to rest for 5 minutes or so while you work on the sauce.
The Sauce
is very simple, it is a roux plus cream and beef stock basically
- to make a rue you melt the butter, toss in the flour and mix until golden brown. This mix with thicken the sauce.
- add the stock, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper
- add the cream, S&P
- reduce to about 1/2 its volume and thickened
- place the meatballs in the pan with the sauce and mix for a few minutes until the meatballs are warmed through.
- the best way to enjoy this is with lingonberry/cranberry sauce and some boiled potatoes if you would like. I just halved 2 small potatoes and boiled them until fork tender and dressed with S, P, butter, and some dill. This meal is a knockout and all I can say is that I am happy that my roommate was out of town over the weekend, so I could enjoy all of it myself. I would love to hear what you guys would like to see. And if you make this, tell me how it went!
See you in the next one.