Swedish Meatballs Kottbullar Food

SWEDISH MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
• Tear the bread into pieces and place in a small mixing bowl along with the milk. Set aside.
• In a 12-inch straight sided saute pan over medium heat, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter. Add the onion and a pinch of salt and sweat until the onions are soft. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the bread and milk mixture, ground chuck, pork, egg yolks, 1 teaspoon of kosher salt, black pepper, allspice, nutmeg, and onions. Beat on medium speed for 1 to 2 minutes.
• Using a scale, weigh meatballs into 1-ounce portions and place on a sheet pan. Using your hands, shape the meatballs into rounds.
• Heat the remaining butter in the saute pan over medium-low heat, or in an electric skillet set to 250 degrees F. Add the meatballs and saute until golden brown on all sides, about 7 to 10 minutes. Remove the meatballs to an ovenproof dish using a slotted spoon and place in the warmed oven.
• Once all of the meatballs are cooked, decrease the heat to low and add the flour to the pan or skillet. Whisk until lightly browned, approximately 1 to 2 minutes. Gradually add the beef stock and whisk until sauce begins to thicken. Add the cream and continue to cook until the gravy reaches the desired consistency. Remove the meatballs from the oven, cover with the gravy and serve.

SWEDISH MEATBALLS (SVENSKA KOTTBULLAR)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place the bread crumbs into a small bowl, and mix in the cream. Allow to stand until crumbs absorb the cream, about 10 minutes. While the bread is soaking, melt 1 teaspoon of butter in a skillet over medium heat, and cook and stir the onion until it turns light brown, about 10 minutes. Place onion into a mixing bowl; mix with the ground beef, ground pork, egg, brown sugar, salt, black pepper, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger. Lightly mix in the bread crumbs and cream.
• Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Pinch off about 1 1/2 tablespoon of the meat mixture per meatball, and form into balls. Place the meatballs into the skillet, and cook just until the outsides are brown, about 5 minutes, turning the meatballs often. Insides of the meatballs will still be pink. Place browned meatballs into a baking dish, pour in chicken broth, and cover with foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the meatballs are tender, about 40 minutes. Remove meatballs to a serving dish.
• To make brown gravy, pour pan drippings into a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk the flour into the pan drippings until smooth, and gradually whisk in enough beef broth to total about 2 1/2 cups of liquid. Bring the gravy to a simmer, whisking constantly until thick, about 5 minutes. Just before serving, whisk in the sour cream. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Serve the gravy with the meatballs.

KOTTBULLAR (SWEDISH MEATBALLS)

Steps:

• Mix in all the meatball ingredients except butter and oil and mix well. Roll them into meatballs.
• Heat olive oil and 2 Tbsp butter in a skillet and place meatballs without crowding them and fry till golden brown on all sides. Plate them out and set aside.
• In the same pan, melt remaining 4 Tbsp butter. Gradually stir in flour to create a roux. Cook until flour starts to brown.
• Slowly stir in beef broth, mixing all those bits stuck to the pan into the sauce.
• Add in cream, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt and pepper. Cook for 4-5 minutes, until sauce starts to thicken up.
• Add in meatballs. Simmer for 10 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasonings to your liking.
• Serve it over bed of mashed potatoes. Garnish with chopped parsley and lingonberry jam.
• Mix all meatball ingredients, omitting butter and oil. Roll them into meatballs.
• Optional: If you want to add a little color to the meatballs, you can sear them in a skillet with oil and butter.
• Make a slurry by slowly stirring beef broth into flour in a bowl. Mix in remaining sauce ingredients.
• Place meatballs in crock pot and add in sauce mixture.
• Cover and cook on high for 2 hours or low for 4-5 hours, until internal temperature of the meatballs is 165°F.
• Set your Instant Pot to Saute mode. Add butter and olive oil, then and meatballs. Cook for a few minutes to brown them up, then remove and set aside.
• Add remaining butter to Instant Pot. Once melted, gradually add flour to create a roux.
• Stir in beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt and pepper. Mix well, making sure to get the bits stuck to the bottom mixed into the sauce.
• Seal lid of the pressure cooker.
• Set to Manual setting for 8 minutes, then allow pressure to release naturally for 10 minutes.
• Remove lid and stir in cream.

SWEDISH MEATBALLS WITH CREAM SAUCE RECIPE

Steps:

• Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large non-stick frying pan. Sauté the onions until soft the remove the heat from the pan and let cool.
• While the onions are cooking, place pork, beef, eggs, panko, salt, pepper, and nutmeg in a large bowl. When the onions are slightly cool, add to the mix then use your hands to mix everything throughly. Shape into 1 inch meatballs, being sure to tightly roll them around so they keep their round shape. Place meatballs on a plate or tray, shaping meat until everything is rolled up.
• Over medium heat, melt 1-2 tablespoons of butter in the same pan that you cooked the onions in. When hot, add several meatballs to the pan, cooking in batches, being sure not to over crowd. Immediately start shaking the pan, ensuring that the balls roll around to maintain their meatball shape. Or, if you don't mind slightly flattened meatballs, just let the meatballs sear. Let the meatballs cook, shaking the pan every so often, until meatballs are golden brown and cooked through. Remove the meatballs from the pan as they cook.
• When all the meatballs are cooked, make the sauce. Add 2 tablespoons of butter to the pan and melt over medium heat. Sprinkle on the flour, whisk and cook for 1-2 minutes. Slowly whisk in the beef stock and cream and cook, whisking constantly, until the sauce starts to thicken. Taste and season with salt, pepper, and soy sauce if using.
• Serve the meatballs with the cream sauce, cucumbers, and ligonberry jam.

KOTTBULLAR

Steps:

• Put the breadcrumbs in a large bowl and add 4 tablespoons of milk. Leave the breadcrumbs to absorb the milk for about 5 minutes.
• Add the ground meat, grated onion, egg, allspice salt and white pepper to the bowl. Mix until everything is combined.
• Take a tablespoon of the mixture and roll it until it is round. Rinse your hands in cold water if the mixture is too sticky. Repeat until you have used up all the mixture, by which time you should have between 25 and 30 meatballs.
• Heat a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan over a medium high heat.
• Fry half the meatballs, shaking the pan frequently as you add them.
• When they are browned, turn down the heat and cook for 10 more minutes.
• Remove the meatballs from the pan and keep warm.
• Add another tablespoon of butter and fry the remaining meatballs in the same way.
• When the meatballs are cooked, remove them from the pan.
• Add the stock and cornstarch mixture to the pan.
• Stir thoroughly and then simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add the soy sauce, salt, black pepper and cream. Heat for a couple more minutes, stirring continuously.
• Serve the meatballs with lingonberries or lingonberry jam, mashed potatoes, pressed cucumber and a light coating of the creamy gravy sauce.

SWEDISH MEATBALLS (SVENSKA KOTTBULLAR)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Place the bread crumbs into a small bowl, and mix in the cream. Allow to stand until crumbs absorb the cream, about 10 minutes. While the bread is soaking, melt 1 teaspoon of butter in a skillet over medium heat, and cook and stir the onion until it turns light brown, about 10 minutes. Place onion into a mixing bowl; mix with the ground beef, ground pork, egg, brown sugar, salt, black pepper, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger. Lightly mix in the bread crumbs and cream.
• Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Pinch off about 1 1/2 tablespoon of the meat mixture per meatball, and form into balls. Place the meatballs into the skillet, and cook just until the outsides are brown, about 5 minutes, turning the meatballs into a baking dish, pour in chicken broth, and cover with foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the meatballs are tender, about 40 minutes. Remove meatballs to a serving dish.
• To make brown gravy, pour pan drippings into a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk the flour into the pan drippings until smooth, and gradually whisk in enough beef broth to total about 2 1/2 cups of liquid. Bring the gravy to a simmer, whisking constantly until thick, about 5 minutes. Just before serving, whisk in the sour cream. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Serve the gravy with the meatballs.

KOTTBULLAR (SWEDISH MEATBALLS)

Steps:

• Combine onion, egg, mustard and meat. Mix together, season with salt and pepper. If too liquid, add breadcrumbs until a ball will hold together.
• Roll into 1 inch meatballs and roll in breadcrumbs. Let rest 5 minutes.
• Melt butter in a skillet and fry meatballs at medium temperature until lightly brown. Remove meatballs and reserve.
• Add cream to skillet. Add pepper to taste and enough chicken stock to make a a nice creamy gravy. Add meatballs and cook until heated through.
• Serve meatballs and the cream sauce together with mashed or boiled potatoes.

KOTTBULLAR (SWEDISH MEATBALLS)

Steps:

• Put the beef in a bowl and set aside.
• Blend the bread crumbs and one cup of cream, and let stand half an hour or longer. Blend the meat and the crumb mixture and add the onion, salt, pepper and egg yolks. Stir to blend well.
• Add the seltzer and thyme and blend thoroughly.
• Shape the meat into 48 to 56 meatballs, each about 1 1/2 inches thick.
• Heat the butter in a large, heavy skillet and add the meatballs a few at a time. Do not crowd them. Cook until seared on one side. Cook, turning, until browned on all sides, and transfer to a dish. Continue cooking until all the meatballs are browned.
• Pour off the fat from the skillet. Add the flour and stir with a wire whisk. Gradually add the broth, stirring rapidly with the whisk. Stir in the jelly until it melts. Add the remaining cream and stir.
• Return the meatballs to the skillet with the sauce and reheat gently.

SWEDISH MEATBALLS (KOTTBULLAR)

Steps:

• Fry the onion light yellow in a little butter.
• Soak the breadcrumbs in the liquid.
• Mix everything well and add spices to taste.
• Make 1- to 1 1/2-inch meatballs with the help of two wet spoons.
• Put them on a plate coated with a little flour and fry them slowly on all sides in lots of butter (putting the meatballs in the freezer for a while before frying makes them firmer).
• Place the meatballs on a hot plate, fry the flour in the remaining fat and pour in the stock and the cream.
• Boil for a few minutes.
• Add soy, salt and pepper to taste and pour the hot sauce over the meatballs.
• Serve hot with mashed potates, pickled cucumber and preserved lingonberry or cranberry.

ELVA'S SWEDISH MEATBALLS (SMA KOTTBULLAR)

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix together the meats, white pepper, and soy sauce thoroughly. Set aside.
• In a small saucepan, brown the onion in the 1 tbsp butter. Set aside.
• in a med bowl, soak the bread crumbs in the cream. Set aside.
• Add egg to the cooled onion mixture, then add that and the bread mixture then add that to the meat mixture. Work the mixture until well blended and smooth. Add more milk if neccessary to give a smooth consistency.
• Roll the meat into bite-sized meatballs. Arrange meatballs on a baking sheet and cover with plastic wrap. Chill for at least 1 hour before cooking.
• Melt a 1 stick of butter and put meatballs into a large frying pan. Let them brown, and shake the pan now and again so that they roll around, removing each one when they are ready. Add more butter to the pan if needed.
• When all the meatballs are cooked, remove them from the pan. Strain juices from pan, keeping 1/4 cup of juices. wipe the pan clean.
• Stir juice back into the pan with 1 tbsp flour to create a roux. Season with more white pepper. Pour cream into the pan and stir until slightly thickened.
• Return meatballs to pan and coat with sauce. Let the meatballs bubble gently for a few minutes. Serve in a large party bowl with toothpicks inserted into a few meatballs.

SWEDISH MEATBALLS (OR KOTTBULLAR)

Steps:

• First and before you get the meat out of the fridge, get everything ready (you don't want ground meat out of the fridge for longer than necessary).
• Start with the onion. Chop it very finely, season it lightly with salt, and gently cook it on low heat in a non stick skillet with a Tbsp of oil and 1/2 a Tbsp of butter until just golden. (Don't let it burn, it will turn bitter !) Let it cool, and reserve.
• Make the breadcrumbs, and soak them in 1/4 of a cup of cream. Start adding the cream slowly, you don't want it dripping wet, just soaked, and the quantity of cream to add might depend on how moist your bread already is. Reserve.
• Beat and season the egg, reserve.
• Once this is done, get the ground meats out of the fridge and combine them (beef and pork) with the soaked bread, the beaten egg, the cooked and cooled onion, the nutmeg, and the allspice. Incorporate everything well, and salt and pepper to taste. Then cover and put back in the fridge for about half an hour. Don't overmix or the meatballs will be tough.
• After half an hour, take your meat mixture out of the fridge and start to shape your meatballs (I make mine bite size, they cook faster and its easier to eat), and fry them until golden brown in a cast iron casserole (cast iron because it keeps the heat very well) in the rest of the canola oil with 2 Tbsp of butter for the taste. Once golden brown on all sides, Put them on paper towels in a tray and reserve.
• In the same cast iron casserole, throw out most of the fat, and then saute the mushrooms on medium heat in what's left. Squeeze in the juice of half a lemon, and a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce. Once the mushrooms are cooked, deglaze the skillet with 1 cup of beef stock and scrape all the brown bits from the bottom of the casserole. Be careful with the salt at this stage, because the beef broth is already salted. You can always adjust the salt later.
• Turn the heat to low and then slowly add the can of Campbell's mushroom soup, and the heavy cream (1 cup).
• Once the mushroom sauce is nice and bubbly, add the meatballs back in, and let reduce on low for 30 to 40 minutes, until the sauce has reduced a third to a half (depending on how thick you want the sauce to be), and the meatballs are cooked through and the flavors have all combined.
• Adjust salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve on top of fresh mash potatoes, or buttered noodles.
• I have added pictures of several stages of the dish to help you out.
• NOTE : leftovers freeze beautifully. It's also a great dish to prepare a day ahead of time, because its even better reheated the next day. Just make sure you don't reduce the sauce too much when you cook it if you know you are going to serve it the next day, the sauce will finish to reduce as you reheat it (on low).