Swedish Meatballs…Pure comfort food.
Swedish Meatballs Recipe
This recipe is pure comfort food, the best! I’m excited to share my Grandma Kae’s Swedish meatball recipe.
Don’t you just love finding the well loved recipe cards that your mom has cooked with for years? I had to snap a pic of the recipe card for this recipe. There is just something so special about this little worn out old recipe card, something that’s lost in today’s world of technology. I love everything about it. Although, as much as I love it, I have to say I love the advances we have made more.
Recipes that have stood the test of time. I love being able to access all of them from my phone with ease, it’s pretty amazing, don’t you think?
Here’s a pic of all the meatballs cooked and ready to go.
What you need to make Swedish Meatballs:
- 1/4 cup onion chopped
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3/4 teaspoon salt and pepper
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup light cream
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 can beef broth or beef consommé
- 1 tablespoon butter
How to make Swedish Meatballs:
- Sauté the chopped onion in one tablespoon butter until it’s tender, not brown.
- In a stand mixer or with a hand mixer add the ground beef and season with salt and pepper.
- Beat in the flour and egg, and gradually beat in the cream into the meat mixture. Now add the cooked chopped onion. The mixture should be light and fluffy.
- Form the meat mixture into meatballs. Lightly brown the meatballs in a little butter in a large sauté pan set to medium high heat.
- Shake the skillet as you brown the meatballs on all sides. Remove the excess fat.
- Add the beef broth and cook for 15 minutes. Thicken with cornstarch and water. Serve with mashed potatoes.
The Secret to making the Best Swedish Meatballs:
The secret to making the best Swedish meatballs is to mix the meatball mixture in a stand mixer or with a hand mixer until they are light and fluffy. It makes the most soft and tender meatballs. They are so good!
Swedish Meatballs
Classic Swedish Meatballs are pure comfort food perfect for a weeknight dinner.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup onion minced
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 3/4 teaspoon salt and pepper
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/4 cup light cream
For the Sauce:
- 1 can beef broth or consomme
- 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
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Sauté the minced onion in one tablespoon butter until tender, not brown.
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In a stand mixer or with a hand mixer add the ground beef and season with salt and pepper.
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Beat in the flour and egg, and gradually beat in the cream into the meat mixture. Now add the cooked chopped onion. The mixture should be light and fluffy.
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Form the meat mixture into meatballs. Lightly brown the meatballs in a little butter in a large sauté pan set to medium high heat.
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Shake the skillet as you brown the meatballs on all sides. Remove the excess fat.
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Add the beef broth and cook for 15 minutes. Thicken with cornstarch and water. Serve with mashed potatoes.
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That’s it! It’s a great recipe, one to definitely keep in the rotation.
MORE Meatball recipes we LOVE:
–Cranberry BBQ Meatballs
–Easy Hawaiian Meatballs
–Homemade Swedish Meatballs (you are here)
–Homemade Italian Meatballs with spaghetti
–Homemade Sweet and Sour Meatballs
–Porcupine Meatballs
–Chicken Parmesan Meatballs
Wish I had some right now!
Yum. These look good. I am going to try them this weekend.
Looks so good! I had to pin it! Thanks for sharing your recipe! My kids will love this!
Looks yummy, going to try. I’m in the process of copying ALL my recipe cards into a book (no more spilled recipe boxes for me!) & then photo copying the pages for my two daughter-in-laws. The recipe cards that are from my mother and in her handwriting, I’m keeping in her old recipe box on display. It’s a big project but fun to go through the recipes too.
Made these for dinner tonight! They were great!!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Thanks for sharing! Yay! You bet!
These were SO GOOD!!! And I did burn them a little bit because I got distracted by the baby crawling up my leg – finishing them in the broth took care of any crustiness that was left behind. 🙂 I used arrowroot to thicken the gravy – big hit! Can’t wait for lunch leftovers tomorrow.
yay! so happy you loved them! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
I love Swedish Meatballs but haven’t had them in a while. Used to be one of my mom’s best meals she would serve. I will be making these later today for Sunday dinner, thanks for sharing!
I made the meatballs tonight, they were delicious! Thanks for sharing.
I made this for dinner tonight and my husband and I thought they were delicious. It will definitely be a regular meal in our house!
Oh how I remember my grandmother making these.. She served them the same way you have in the picture, with maple carrots, mashed potatoes and a salad on the side.. dessert was always her triple layer chocolate cake with ice cream the we got to help turn (the old fashioned way).. So many great memories, thank you. I think I will message my aunt and find out where my grandmother’s recipes went, I sure would love a copy of them. Thank you so much for sharing.
I just want to say Thank you for sharing a “true” Swedish meatball recipe. I see so many recipes where they use allspice and nutmeg in the meatballs and that is not considered traditional Swedish meatballs.
I would personally say to use white peppar over black peppar. Very big in Sweden. Like for example, I always grew up making mashed potatoes with just butter, milk, salt and white peppar and that’s it 🙂
I made these for dinner tonight. This was the first time I ever made Swedish meatballs. I didn’t have corn starch so I used organic all purpose flour.. They were delicious! We had them with mashed potatoes and seasoned roasted root vegetables.. I will definitely make them again!
Thank you for sharing the recipe!
YAY! Thanks for sharing!