Beef / Pork

The Best Swedish Meatballs is for Dinner.

The Best Swedish Meatballs takes several minutes to prepare.

The Best Swedish Meatballs takes 30 minutes to cook.

The Best Swedish Meatballs makes 6 servings.

The ingredients for The Best Swedish Meatballs are:

2 slices of bread
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup milk
small onion
1tbs butter
1 lb. lean ground beef
1/2 lb. ground pork
1 egg
1 tsp salt
dash of ground ginger, nutmag, and pepper
2 tbs oil
1tbs flour
1 cup cold water

Here is how you make The Best Swedish Meatballs:

1. Cut the bread into small cubes2. combine the cream and milk a small mixing bowl. Measure 1 1/2 cups of bread cubes into the liquid and let soak for 5 min.3. Chop the onion into small peices.4. Melt butter in skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook until clear and tender.5. Mix the ground beef and por in a large mixing bowl.6. Add the egg, cooked onions, soaked bread crumbs, and salt to the meat mixture. Then add the ginger, nutmeg, and pepper. Mix well.7. stir the meat mixture untill light and fluffy. shape into 2 inch balls.8. put oil into skillet. Fry a few meatballs at a time in the oil over meadium heat. Roll the meatballs on all sides untill brown. Then, take out and place on paper towel.9. Make a gravy by slowly stirring the flour into the meat fat in the pan. then add the cup of cold water and stirr till gravy is thick.10. Put all the meatballs into the gravy and cook for 30 min.Number of Servings: 6Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LOLA13222.

The nutritional information for The Best Swedish Meatballs is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 6
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 504.1

• Total Fat: 39.4 g
• Cholesterol: 157.3 mg
• Sodium: 560.2 mg
• Total Carbs: 9.9 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.0 g
• Protein: 26.4 g