These meatballs are seriously so good. The sauce is creamy and beefy, and the pops of onion in the meatball itself are wonderful. Your party guests will LOVE you!
Swedish Meatballs
Author: White Lights on Wednesday
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Serves: 32 meatballs
Ingredients
Meatballs:
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 cup Panko bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons evaporated milk
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley
Gravy:
- 2 cup low-sodium beef broth
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons flour
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- ¼ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- ¼ cup fresh parsley, if desired
Instructions
- Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and saute for 5 to 10 minutes, or until onions are tender and translucent.
- In a medium bowl, combine bread crumbs and evaporated milk; stir to combine. Add the ground beef, cooked onion, egg, salt, pepper, and dried parsley. Mix well, and form golf ball sized meatballs.
- Heat remaining oil in the same skillet over medium high heat. Add the meatballs – do not over crowd pan. Carefully shake skillet to turn meatballs, as needed. Saute for 10 to 15 minutes, or until meat balls are browned on all sides. Transfer meatballs to a serving platter.
- Deglaze the skillet with 1 cup beef broth. Let broth simmer for 3 minutes wile scraping the brown bits from bottom of the skillet. Strain heated broth into a clean bowl and add remaining beef broth to bowl.
- Melt butter in the skillet. Add flour and whisk to combine, cook roux for 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in warm beef broth. Simmer gravy until thickened slightly. Add cream, onion powder, garlic powder, dried parsley, salt, and pepper.
- To serve, cover meatballs with gravy and garnish with fresh parsley.
I love and haven't made in ages Swedish meatballs. Please share this on my Foodie Friday linky.
Yum! I love Swedish Meatballs and can't wait to try this recipe! I am pinning this to make very soon
I'll have to give these a try! We love eating the Swedish meatballs from Ikea. I'm pinning it!
YUMMM – this is a great looking dish!
Love for you to share it at my Linky Party
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I love swedish meatballs! Haven't made or had them in a very long time though!
Done and done! Thanks for the invite.
I am all linked up. Thanks so much for the invite! I've got you on my linky party list now so I can come by every week.
Thanks for sharing your meatballs with us. I am going to make them with some buttered egg noodles.
You recipe sounds delicious!
I love my meatballs
but it's not traditional to serve them with noodles of any kind if you have the sauce. In Sweden we have them with either boiled potatoes or mash. And of course lingonberry jam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingonberry_jam).
I really do love Swedish meatballs, but I have never actually made them. Now I have no reason not too:-)
Your meatballs sound really good. Haven't made swedish meatballs before! I can't wait to try. Thanks.
I tried this easy recipe and it turned out awesome! The meatballs and gravy are YUMSTASTIC!!!
Yay! I’m so glad you liked it!!
Yum! This turned out great! I served it with some buttery egg noodles & it was fantastic. Thank you!
I’m so glad you liked them Heather!
Looks AMAZING! About how many meatballs will this make? Does your 8 servings mean 24 meatballs? Just curious if I’ll need to double the recipe for my extremely large family.
Hi Lyndsey. The recipe makes 32 good sized meatballs. I make mine slightly bigger than a golf ball since they cook down. I don’t know why I opted for putting “servings” in instead of the actual number. Sorry. I’ve updated the recipe to reflect the appropriate quantity. I’d recommend 1 1/2 batches and making the meatballs large walnut sized if your feeding a large troupe.
Can you substitute something else for evaporated milk?