No trip to an Ikea store was complete without a stop in the cafeteria for a cinnamon roll or its famous Swedish meatballs.
The furniture maker decided to give the world it’s Swedish meatball and cream sauce recipe to make at home. Download the IKEA recipe card pdf here. Let us know your results in the comments.
Ingredients for meatballs
Makes 30-40 meatballs
- 250 g minced beef
- 250 g minced pork
- 1 egg
- 2–3 dl cream (or milk) and water
- 2½ tbsp fine chopped onion
- ½ dl unsweetened rusk flour
- 2 boiled potatoes, cold
- 4–5 tbsp butter, margarine or oil
- salt
- white pepper
- (allspice)
Directions for meatballs
- Heat the onion until golden in a couple of tablespoons of lightly browned butter.
- Mash the potatoes and moisten the rusk flour in a little water.
- Mix all the ingredients into a smooth farce and flavour generously with salt, white pepper and (optional) fine-crushed allspice.
- Shape the farce into round balls and transfer to a floured chopping
- board, then fry them quite slowly in plenty of butter.
Ingredients for cream sauce
- 1 dl double cream
- 2 dl water or beef stock
- soy
- salt
- white pepper
- (1 tbsp white flour)
Directions for cream sauce
- Swirl out the pan with a couple of decilitres of boiling water or meat stock.
- Strain the pan juices and dilute with cream.
- Thicken with white flour if preferred.
- Season well, and serve this and the meatballs with freshly boiled potatoes, lingonberry jam, a green salad and salted or pickled gherkins.
