Easy Swedish Meatballs Recipe (Better than Ikea!)

Ditch Ikea’s Swedish meatballs, and make this easy Swedish meatballs recipe instead! In this tutorial, I walk you through step-by-step how to make Swedish meatballs in a creamy, flavorful mushroom sauce.

I share my favorite brands for every ingredient (from the best frozen meatballs to the tastiest Worcestershire sauce) and show you exactly how to make the mushroom sauce. Whether you decide to serve these Swedish meatballs on egg noodles, rice, or mashed potatoes, this dish is the ultimate Swedish meatball recipe you’ll want on repeat!

➡️SWEDISH MEATBALLS RECIPE: https://www.familysavvy.com/swedish-meatballs-recipe-with-a-creamy-mushroom-sauce/

➡️OTHER RECIPES MENTIONED:

Chattown Catering’s Meatball Recipe: https://www.familysavvy.com/the-easiest-and-most-delicious-meatball-recipe/

How to Make the Perfect Rice Every Time in the Oven: https://www.familysavvy.com/how-to-make-perfect-rice-every-time-in-the-oven/

Make & Freeze: Homemade Rotisserie Chicken Bone Broth: https://www.familysavvy.com/make-freeze-homemade-rotisserie-chicken-bone-broth/

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Kroma 24K Beef Bone Broth: https://go.shopmy.us/p-23104844

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🔗FAVORITE FOOD BRANDS MENTIONED:
– Trader Joe’s Frozen Party Size Mini Meatballs
– Trader Joe’s Frozen Italian Style Meatballs
– Trader Joe’s Frozen Turkey Meatballs
– Kroma 24K Beef Bone Broth: https://go.shopmy.us/p-23104844
– Campbell’s 25% Less Sodium Cream of Mushroom Soup
– Trader Joe’s Condensed Cream of Portabella Mushroom Soup
– Daisy Light Sour Cream
– Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
– Simply Potatoes Mashed Potatoes (Sour Cream & Chive) – Can find at Publix

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[Music] Hello my friends. I hope you are having a fabulous day so far. I am going to share with you a recipe that you are going to want to keep in your recipe box. This is a dish that is comforting. It’s make ahead. It’s freezer friendly and it’s good leftover. It’s also something you really just don’t see every time you scroll recipes. I’m going to show you how to make Swedish meatballs with a mushroom sauce. I decided to share this because I had some meatballs and I’m going to, by the way, link to every recipe that I reference. I’m going to link to all of the tools that I’m using. And then I will share with you the particular brands that I might be using as far as the ingredients. So, do not think you’ve got to pull out a notepad. All the details and links will be in the caption. When I was growing up, my mom would make probably every other week Swedish meatballs. And as a child, that was one of the most enjoyed recipes for me. Even though it had a mushroom sauce, most kids are a little bit averse to mushrooms. But I just can assure you, you must try this recipe. It’s savory. It’s got some umami. And there are several ways that you can serve it. You can serve it over rice, mashed potatoes, or over egg noodles. Those are the three most popular and yummy ways. I’ll address a few of the details about the options for serving these. But first, I want to start with the basis for Swedish meatballs, and that’s meatballs. Swedish meatballs can be homemade or you can use storebought frozen meatballs or you can even buy fresh meatballs from say the public’s apron section that are uncooked, they’re already formed and you can cook those. Whether you cook them in a skillet in some oil or if you bake them, but you want to start with cooked meatballs, whether you buy them cooked and frozen, whether you buy them and cook them. I am going to be using a recipe that will be linked and you’re going to want that recipe, too. I’m using these Chat Town Catering meatballs. Zayn and I attended a wedding of one of our dearest friends and she’s actually Rachel. She’s been Zayn’s executive assistant. Actually, she’s chief of staff over part of their firm. She’s amazing. And she got married and Zayn did the ceremony. he officiated and it was in Chattanooga and we had a lovely wedding and then at the reception they served a lovely buffet with Italian and I consider myself a meatball aficionado. I just do. I never pass on meatballs on the menu. If I had to say what I will pull out of the hat on any given weekn night when I want a quick yummy meal, it’s meatballs. They’re always in my freezer. So, I’ve eaten almost every brand that you can buy at the grocery. I have eaten at so many restaurants. I love meatballs. I know what I like in meatballs. I know what I consider a good trait of a meatball. One thing I will never ever take is a meatball that is not fully cooked. You have to be super careful because sometimes you might go to a restaurant and the meatballs might be really, really large. You’re going to want to make sure that you tell them beforehand if you see that the meatballs are large. If it says it on the menu, I’ve even had an appetizer before where it was probably the size of a little bigger than an apple, a meatball baked and covered in mozzarella and bara. They had the secret of cooking it all the way through. But some places, some restaurants consider medium medium well cooked when you’re using ground beef. maybe that they buy organically or whatever. Not for me. I always want mine cooked completely through. So that’s to me the characteristics of a good meatball that is fully cooked yet moist. And there are ways that you make a meatball moist. Whether it’s a pinade that’s made of breadcrumbs soaked in milk. You can also use mushrooms that are chopped. They add moisture and some consistency. So, there are lots of ways, but most of the meatballs that you’re going to buy in a store are going to be delicious. I love Trader Joe’s meatballs, the frozen meatballs. They have mini party size. Those are delicious. And they have Italian meatballs and they have turkey meatballs. I love all of them. And I will just pull the bag out and you can do the same. throw them in your slow cooker and put your favorite sauce over and just heat them low and slow until the sauce melts into them and you will have an effortless delicious meal. You can do it with a jarred pasta sauce or you can make Swedish meatballs like I’m about to do today. So, I am using these Chap Town meatballs that I have linked. Be sure that you note when you link to my recipe for Chap. Actually, I didn’t even finish my story. So, at the wedding reception, I went back three times for the meatballs. Three times. And I was raving about the meatballs and the caterer saw how many times I went back. We got into a conversation and she offered the recipe. I was blown away. I was so excited. But the recipe that she sent made a catering size portion. So, I have adapted it to the recipe that I share on my blog and of course give them credit for. I do like to make a big batch because they freeze beautifully. So, you can see how beautiful these meatballs are. And this is what I’m using for the Swedish meatballs. Now, I’m going to talk about how I cook these Swedish meatballs or prepare them because remember the meatballs are cooked. So, we’re going to have the meatballs and then we’ll do the sauce and then this is going to heat. It is about not even 11 yet. This will be dinner tonight. I’m just going to put it on low and it will slowly heat the meatballs and the sauce will just meld into them. It will just become savory, bubbly, and delicious. So, what I’m using here, and I could not live without this. I have more than one of these. This is a casserole croc. And if you can see, it’s a casserole size. Now, I do have two normalsiz sixQ deep slow cooker crockots, but this is fabulous for so many things. And I like that it cooks in a lower, more shallow and wide angle. So, that’s what I’m going to be using. And I’m going to pour the meatballs into the slow cooker. I’m just going to cover the bottom of the pan. Because I keep these on hand, I just pour out what I need and then put them back in the freezer. So, here we go. I’m going to add just a few more, but you don’t want to get too high to the top because you want the sauce to be able to cover. Okay, that’s it. So, I’m going to put these back in the freezer. And the next time I use these, I’ll probably make a red pasta sauce and pasta. So, these meatballs are very versatile. They’re not Italian and they’re just they’ve got different meats, different seasonings. They’re just savory and they can adapt to any sauce that you use with them. Look at those. They’re so good. And the way I cook these is I use the recipe that I have, shape them, and I put them in the oven. I have two ginormous that I’ll link to USA sheet pans, and I will do two pans covered in these meatballs, and I’ll bake them, cool them, and freeze them. Okay. So, now we are going to make our Swedish meatball sauce. It’s a mushroom sauce. It calls for one cup of beef broth. You can get a can of beef broth, Campbell. You can get any kind of prepared beef broth. This is one of my favorite things. This is Chroma. It’s 24 karat beef broth. You just see you add one scoop to 8 oz of water. And let me tell you, this has one scoop. Wait, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, my friends. two scoops with 8 to 10 ounces of water. Sorry. So, two scoops. It’s 8 to 10. I’m going to go ahead and do 10 oz of water because there’s a lot of meatballs. So, let me tell you what is in this and why I love this. It is not inexpensive, per se. But a good bone broth is not cheap. It is just not. I have my homemade that is in the freezer. I make it and freeze it, but I don’t make it often. Beef broth is just not something I enjoy making. Although, it is easy to make it in the slow cooker. I do make rotisserie chicken broth because that’s just super easy. This has two scoops, makes one serving, 70 calories. It only has three carbs, and it has 15 g of protein, and it is made from grass-fed beef. And it is just a natural medicine for your gut and your biome. This broth is slowcooked, then carefully dried through a unique proprietary process to extract all the nutrients, amino acids, and delicious flavor. This is a very big company, and if you go to their website, you will see recipes. You’ll see all sort of gut friendly products. I love their bone broth. I keep the beef. I keep the chicken. I love their granola. They have a cookie butter, OMG cookie butter. I will link to all of my favorite Chroma products and I may have a discount code. I’ll see if I do. But nonetheless, we are going to now make our beef broth because this mushroom sauce calls for beef broth. I’m going to get my handy dandy frothther. And if you didn’t have bone broth, you could use just regular beef broth, but this is just adding protein and nutrients. Bone broth is always better than just beef or chicken broth cuz you’re getting protein. Okay. So, we have this. So, we have our bone broth. Beef bone broth. And I’m going to get a little bigger container to mix it in. So, I’m going to pour my bone broth in here. Flavor overload. Got a little at the bottom. So, I’m going to get that out. 24 karat. You do not want to waste it. Then, we are going to add mushroom soup. I have two mushroom soups that I always keep on hand. I have Campbell and I usually do healthy requests or lower sodium because I salt everything with a heavy hand. So I always get reduced sodium when I can. So that’s what I’m using today. Campbell is just what I grew up on. So I’m going to use this today. But I’m also going to give a honorable mention to Trader Joe’s condensed cream of porttoella mushroom soup. I think this perhaps is seasonal. You’re definitely going to see it in the fall when people are fall cooking Thanksgiving. Um, but I’ve had this for a while and it doesn’t expire for like until the end of the year. But today I’m going to use good oldfashioned Campbell cream of mushroom. So, we’re going to just pour that right in here. Okay. Now, we are going to add a four of a cup of sour cream. This is making me hungry already. Okay. I love Daisy and I love Daisy Light. Grastones is also a favorite, but I’m just partial to Daisy Light. It has 50% less fat and it tastes just like the regular sour cream. So, it calls for a four of a cup. I’m not going to measure because I can definitely tell that that’s about a four of a cup. And you know, on something like this, you don’t have to be just right on the dot, okay? Cuz it’s a gravy. Okay. So, there we have that. And now it’s on the list of my top five favorite condiments. Oyster. And I’m a worsher snob. laying parents. That’s all I’ll buy. It’s the original. It has the wrapper. You can now get it without the wrapper, but talk about adding a mommy of your dreams. I put this on steak directly on steak. It’s heavenly. I add about a tablespoon. So, that’s about a tablespoon. And this is one thing that it may say optional, but I never leave this out. Okay. So, now we’re going to stir up this. And you know, it’s got this thick soup and then it’s got the sour cream. So, it might take just a little bit of stirring. And while I’m doing this, I’m going to let you all know that I decided to put mushrooms in the mix tonight. Typically, when I make Swedish meatballs, I just do the gravy and the meatballs. But I had mushrooms that I bought. I think I bought them yesterday or day before. And I thought I’m going to add mushrooms. That just gives you a little more of a mouth feel, a little more variety. And I think it also makes it pretty. And I’m actually going to take some of this dish to my sweet friend. She’s done my hair for 15 years plus. She had hip replacement. She had it Monday and I flew to New York Monday. Got back Wednesday. So, she is just now feeling like eating. So, I’m going to take some of this to her. Oh my goodness. So, I decided to add mushrooms to make it look a little fancier. And I love mushrooms. So, I’ve rinsed these mushrooms, and all I’m going to do is just sprinkle them over like this. Look how pretty. You could use these are just white mushrooms that are sliced. You could use porttoelloo. You could use any mushroom. You do not have to cook them. You just slice them. And now we’re going to pour over this yummy, yummy gravy. Oh my goodness, this is going to be so good. Look at this. So remember the meat is cooked. It’s just frozen. This slow cooker is going to slowly heat and reheat the meatballs. They’ll render juices and fat and this gravy will just meld into them. It will start bubbling and then it will be delicious. So what I’m going to do is put this on right now. I’m going to put this on because it’s not even 11. It’s right Oh my goodness. It’s only 10:00. So, I’m going to put this on low and it’ll be fine. Probably four or five hours. And guys, this is one thing I always do is I always test to make sure that my slow cooker or croc is heating, that it’s working. Because one time, and I’m almost 60, guys. I’ve used slow cookers. I’ve been cooking since I was nine. So, I’ve been using slow cookers 50 years plus. A few times I’ve had a slow cooker that for some reason just had quit working and I didn’t know it. I turned it on, came back hours later. It was never on. It’s awful having to throw away something that didn’t cook because your slow cooker was broken and you didn’t know it. This is heating up beautifully. All you want to do is just put your hand right there where the burner is. So, it’s beautiful. Beautiful. And just because I always have to do this, I’m going to do a little freshly ground pepper. And if you really want to even add more flavor, you could do some fresh parmesan. And now that I’m talking about that, I think that’s what I’m going to do. Hang on. Even though this is not an Italian dish, and I guess it is a Swedish dish because I’ve never had them, but AKA sells Swedish meatballs for the ones that have a cafe. It’s not Italian, but Parmesan, it’s just nutty and it adds flavor. So, here we go. I’m all about adding more flavor and kicking things up a notch. Talk about companyw worthy. Talk about take a friend a meal and they go crazy. I just have to show y’all this. Look, this is going to be so good. So, warm, high, low. And there we go. So, now we’re going to talk about how to serve these egg noodles. Perfection. If you’re a pasta leaning person, just make a batch of egg noodles. I prefer no yolk egg noodles, but any kind of egg noodles tastes great with this. You could do any other type of pasta, but egg noodles are really more traditionally than pasta served with Swedish meatballs. Okay, here’s another way you can serve them. I’m going to give a hack to those of you who are busy and maybe want to take this to someone or you want to whip this up quickly and you want to serve it over mashed potatoes, but you have zero time to peel, dice, steam, or boil and then mashed potatoes. This is my go-to. Simply potatoes, sour cream and chive is my favorite. They’re all good. You put them in the microwave like 2 minutes, stir them, put them back in. Love, love, love, love, love. So you could serve these over mashed potatoes. And I love Swedish meatballs over rice. That’s what my mom put them over. I lean more rice or egg noodles. I just think of mashed potatoes with pot roast. But if you do rice, I want you to link below to my perfect rice every time recipe. I got that recipe from my friend Marie Marino. It’s perfect every time. Every time. It’s easy and it’s the best rice I have ever put in my mouth. So, it makes a big you you make it in like a a little saucepan, three, four quart, and you finish it in the oven. Oh my goodness, it would be the perfect rice for this. And then if you’re super in a hurry and you want to do rice, you can get frozen rice that you can microwave. You can get it everywhere. Trader Joe’s has brown and regular jasmine, all of that. But either way, those are your three best options for serving your Swedish meatballs for what to serve them over. Now, what sides would I put with Swedish meatballs? My favorite side to go with Swedish meatballs is steamed broccoli. Now, I love roasted broccoli, but steamed broccoli with some maybe balsamic vinegar or some fresh lemon juice and maybe some real butter. It’s just the perfect fresh accompaniment to go with this. That’s my preference. Of course, you could do a salad. My mom would do, I think, broccoli and steamed carrots. My recommendation is whatever you do, whether you do a green and yellow vegetable side steamed or whether you do a salad, I would not make it super complex or I would not make it with a lot of flavors because you want something simple and fresh because this has a lot going on. It’s rich. It’s got a lot of flavors. It’s got that umami. It’s got the mushroom, the beefy broth. Lots going on here. So, it’s going to be best with a broccoli or a broccolini and then maybe some carrots or a just a fresh garden salad. I hope that you all will give this a try. And if you do, please let me know because I’ll be directing you to the recipe on the blog. Let me know if you liked it, if you didn’t, what you served it over, any tweaks that you might have made. I love hearing from my people. And if you like my channel, I hope that you’ll follow and subscribe and let me know what other kind of content you would like for me to share. I always hope to add value to you, to your family table, to whatever you do in your family life. I like always try to make some sort of positive contribution. As always, I will be back soon. And until then, you be blessed and stay savvy. [Music]