Best sweedish meat balls and sauce recipe?

[Happiest in the kitchen.]

All of a sudden had a craving for sweedish meat balls.

What's yorur recipe. Please no randome links or just copy and pasting. If it is a recipe you use often that is fine but I can googlee random recipes. I want the ones YOU use.
NO canned soups, please. Yuck.

 

[WinterOpal]

On occasion I cater, fix a lot of meatballs. The favorites are old standbys, cranberry meatballs with a apricot jelly instead of cranberry sauce, Mexican meatballs with chili seasonings and Swedish meatballs my Momma used to make. She was Texan, not Swedish so she made the sauce by sauteing a small onion and a cup of sliced mushrooms in butter, then adding a can of Cream of Chicken soup, a can of Cream of Mushroom soup and a soup can of chicken broth (or water). Mix well. Put meatballs in glass casserole dish large enough to hold one recipe, pour sauce over meatballs of choice, cover with foil, bake, 325 degrees 1 hour. My mother, being Texan, added a dash of cayenne to everything. But it isn't necessary.

 

[Hambone]

i found this recipe a couple years ago, have made it 2 or 3 times and enjoyed it.


Swedish Meatballs

From AllRecipes.com

INGREDIENTS

1 2/3 cups evaporated milk
2/3 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 dash pepper
1 pound ground round
2 teaspoons butter

4 beef bouillon cubes Doubled from copied recipe
2 cup boiling waterDoubled from copied recipe
1 cup cold water Doubled from copied recipe
4 tablespoons all-purpose flourDoubled from copied recipe
2 cup evaporated milk Doubled from copied recipe
2 tablespoon lemon juiceDoubled from copied recipe

DIRECTIONS

1.Combine 2/3 cup evaporated milk, onion, crumbs, salt, allspice and pepper. Add meat; mix well, chill.
2.Shape meat mixture into 1-in. balls. In large skillet, brown meatballs in butter.
3.Dissolve bouillon cubes in boiling water; pour over meatballs and bring to boil over medium heat. Cover; simmer for 15 minutes.
4.Meanwhile, blend together cold water and flour. Remove meatballs from skillet, skim fat from pan juices and reserve juices. Stir 1 cup evaporated milk and flour/water mixture into pan juices in skillet; cook, uncovered, over low heat, stirring until sauce thickens.
5.Return meatballs to skillet. Stir in lemon juice.

Serve with cooked noodles that have been tossed with poppy seeds and butter.

Sauce was doubled based on reviews by 2 different raters

 

[Ron P]

Swedish Meatballs Meatballs:

1 large yellow or white onion, peeled, grated (through a cheese grater)
2 Tbsp butter
2/3 cup milk
4-5 slices of bread, crusts removed, bread cut into pieces
2 eggs
1 pound ground pork
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
2 teaspoons black pepper
Sauce:

6 Tbsp butter
1/3 cup flour
1 quart beef stock
1/2 to 3/4 cup sour cream
Salt
2 to 4 Tbsp of Lingonberry, cranberry, red currant or raspberry jelly, more or less to taste (optional)
Method
1 Sauté the grated onion in the butter over medium-high heat until the onions soften and turn translucent, about 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.

2 In a medium bowl, mix the bread pieces with the milk. Set aside for 15-20 minutes, or until the bread soaks up all the milk. When it does, pulverize the bread in a food processor and pour it into a large bowl.

3 Add the cooled onions to the bowl of milk and bread. Add the rest of the meatball ingredients—eggs, ground pork, ground beef, salt, nutmeg, cardamom, pepper. Using your (clean) hands, mix well for about 2 minutes until the ingredients are well combined.

4 Use a tablespoon to measure out the meat for the meatballs. As you form the meatballs, set each one aside on a sheet pan or plate. You should get 40 to 50 meatballs.



5 Heat 6 tablespoons of butter for the sauce in a large sauté pan over medium heat. When the butter has melted, reduce the heat to medium and add some of the meatballs. Do not crowd the pan. Work in batches, browning them slowly on all sides. Be gentle when you turn them so they don't break apart. Do not cook the meatballs all the way through, only brown them at this stage. Once browned, use a slotted spoon to remove them from the pan, setting them aside so you can make the sauce with the remaining pan butter.



6 Start the sauce. (Check the pan butter to see if it has burned. If the butter tastes burnt, discard the butter and replace with new 6 tablespoons.) Heat the pan butter on medium until hot. Slowly whisk in the flour. Stirring often, let the flour cook until it is the color of coffee-with-cream; this is a classic roux.



7 As the roux is cooking, heat the beef stock in another pot until it simmers. When the roux has cooked until the color of coffee-with-cream, slowly add the hot beef stock a little at a time. Everything will sputter at first, and the sauce will seize up and solidify. Keep stirring and adding stock slowly, and it will loosen up and become silky.


8 Add the meatballs to the sauce and turn the heat down to low. Cover the pot and cook on low heat for 10 minutes. You might need to do this in batches.

9 To finish, move the meatballs to a serving dish. Add the sour cream and mix well. Either add the lingonberry jelly to the sauce or serve it on the side.

Serves 4 vikings, or 8-10 regular people.

 

[Zack79]

I tried this one once and liked a lot! Maybe it can be helpful for you as well.

http://www.happystove.com/recipe/117/Swedish+Meatballs+(Kottbullar)