Swedish Meatballs (From a Swede!) recipe

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Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon minced onion
⅓ cup fine dry bread crumbs
½ cup water
½ cup half-and-half
¾ pound ground beef
¼ pound ground pork
2 teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon ground white pepper
⅓ teaspoon white sugar
3 tablespoons butter

Nutrition Info

69.4 calories
carbohydrate: 1.4 g
cholesterol: 18.7 mg
fat: 5.5 g
fiber: 0.1 g
protein: 3.5 g
saturatedFat: 2.7 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 231.2 mg
sugar: 0.2 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a frying pan over low heat, cook and stir onion in melted butter until lightly browned, 5 to 8 minutes.

  2. Mix bread crumbs, water, and half-and-half in a large bowl, let stand for about 2 minutes. Stir cooked onion, ground beef, ground pork, salt, white pepper, and sugar into bread crumb mixture until thoroughly mixed. Shape mixture into about 48 very small meatballs.

  3. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a skillet, add meatballs. Brown slowly, allowing about 25 minutes, until meatballs are fully cooked in the middle and no longer pink. Shake pan occasionally to cook evenly.

Recipe Yield

48 tiny meatballs

Recipe Note

This is my mom's Swedish meatball recipe. This isn't the kind a lot of people are used to in a creamy white sauce. She served them every Christmas Eve in a chafing dish as part of the 'Smörgåsbord.' My mom used to have a vegetable sour cream and a lingonberry sauce on the table for those that might want to dip these in something.

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