Recipe for 4 large portions

Ingredients

– 500g beef mince
– 500g pork mince
– 30g panko bread crumbs
– 1 tsp allspice
– .5 tsp nutmeg
– 100ml milk
– 1 brown onion
– 500ml beef stock
– 50g butter
– 40g flour
– Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. Start by grating your onion into a bowl. Then, add the bread crumbs salt and pepper, allspice, nutmeg, and milk and mix this together and let it sit for five minutes.
2. Add your pork and beef mince to the breadcrumb mixture and mix until homogeneous.
3. On a lined baking tray, roll your meatballs out into golf ball-size pieces and bake in a 200°C oven for 12-15 minutes
4. While the meatballs are in the oven, start making your gravy by melting the butter then adding your flour and cooking it for 3-4 minutes.
5. Warm your beef stock up (doesn’t need to be boiling but shouldn’t be cold either) and slowly mix that into the flour and butter mix.
6. Season this with salt and pepper (and while it’s not traditional, I also like to add a couple of dashes of Worcestershire sauce as well).
7. Once your meatballs are cooked and golden on the outside, add them to the gravy you just made followed by the cream.
8. Once the cream is well mixed through the sauce, check your meatballs are fully cooked and you’re good to go.
9. Serve the meatballs with mashed potato, steamed greens and cranberry sauce as traditionally they are served with lingonberry sauce but I can’t seem to find any in Australia.

28 Comments

  1. Was that sour cream? That reminds me of stroganoff instead of the creamy gravy it normally is. No hate just questioning.

  2. Hey mate, swede here. Fry them in the pan, take them out, add cream, starch and soy sauce to the pan and make the sauce of whatever taste the frying left in the pan. The meatballs taste better that way. Good luck mate.

    The IKEA version is fine and all, but authentic grandma style is much better

  3. A tip don't salt the mashed potatoes when boiling. It tastes better (in my opinion) when you salt it after you mash them 🙂🙂

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