Swedish Meatballs

Exam week for the boyfriend, so I'm in charge of the cooking. He's been begging me for Köttbullar (meatballs) for ages. There was an action on minced meat at Coop; with 1 kilo minced  meat we have made fried rice with minced meat, bolognese sauce and now lastly Köttbullar. Served with cream sauce, potato slices, brussels sprouts and Swedish cucumber salad (I used the second version today) this is a hearty meal indeed!

Köttbullar, 2 persons extremely full afterwards

2-3 tablespoons bread crumbs

1/2 tablespoon potato flour

75 ml milk

about 350 grams minced meat (beef)

1/2 egg

plenty of salt

plenty of white pepper

plenty of dried majoram

For the cream sauce:

cream

soy

salt

Mix bread crumbs with the potato flour, add the milk and let the mixture swell for about 30 min. If it's still too wet, add some more bread crumbs.

Add the minced meat to the bread mixture. Add egg, salt, white pepper and majoram. 

Mix well until the meat strings have dissolved, giving you a grainy pink paste. If you use beef you can taste now and adjust accordingly if you want otherwise you can do that later.

Put water in a big pan. Bring it to the boil. Make balls out of the meat mixture, if you haven't tasted yet, make a small one and taste it and adjust the seasoning. If the taste is fine, make balls and put them in the boiling water, when they float up, take them out. Let them cool and dry a little. For this amount of meat, it took me two times to cook all the balls.  Have a bowl of cold water near by to wet your hands, then the rolling goes easier.

Put butter and oil in a hot pan and fry the balls until brown.

I had to fry them in two batches. Put some cream in the pan (still with the fat in it), add a little soy, let the cream boil and reduce a little, to thicken the sauce put a little potato flour in a cup, mix with a little bit of water, add this to the sauce in the frying pan. Salt to taste.

This is how I served the Köttbullar:

My plate, don't put the cucumber on the plate, it gets too wet :P

Boyfriends plate, notice the mayonaise ;)

This is not fast food, it takes about 1-2 hours to prepare, but it's worth it. Real Swedish comfort food!

I miss Swedish food!