meatballs... different way

tsuzmir

about to make some meatballs for tonite but instead of usual ones with tomato sauce i wanted to come up with something different... was thinking of adding cranberry and rosemary, anyone has better idea?

Little Alex

Swedish meatballs are lovely. You'll find loads of recipes in Google.

Tree

I love meatballs in pepper sauce. nom nom nom

tsuzmir

Little Alex wrote: »

Swedish meatballs are lovely. You'll find loads of recipes in Google.

googled -got almost 22000000 results for meatbals, i bet 99% are 'meatballs in tomato sauce'
Thx Alex but i was looking for something more unusual, ended up making rosemary and cranberry meatballs with.... tomato sauce buit infused with mulled wine spices for christmasy twist... delicious combination.

Little Alex

tsuzmir wrote: »

googled -got almost 22000000 results for meatbals, i bet 99% are 'meatballs in tomato sauce'
Thx Alex but i was looking for something more unusual, ended up making rosemary and cranberry meatballs with.... tomato sauce buit infused with mulled wine spices for christmasy twist... delicious combination.

Nah man, Swedish meatballs aren't like that at all. They're the business!

I'm not Swedish, but this recipe here is pretty close to other "authentic" ones I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3IY4yKLyY

They can be served with lingonberry sauce, which you can get in IKEA. As far as I can recall lingonberry sauce is not radically different from cranberry sauce.

You'll need to click on ""Watch on YouTube" to be able to see the recipe.

Alun

That's a pretty authentic recipe (I did a residential Swedish course in Sweden a few years ago and did a Swedish cookery course as part of it!). The only thing I'd add that gives it an even more authentic Swedish taste for me would be some 'kryddpeppar' (ground allspice, or piment.) The Swedes use it a lot as well as, or in place of, normal black pepper.

One nice variation is to stuff a little bit of blue cheese into the middle of each ball before frying, and to serve with a 'sauce' made from simply gently melting some more blue cheese and single cream together in a pan.

tsuzmir

Alun wrote: »

One nice variation is to stuff a little bit of blue cheese into the middle of each ball before frying, and to serve with a 'sauce' made from simply gently melting some more blue cheese and single cream together in a pan.

oh i like that! i gotta try next time, sounds great

Deki

Those meatballs that you put jelly in the sauce are big around here, and I like them but my favorites are the ones you bake in the oven and then chuck into brown gravy and a handful of rice in the crock pot. A lady I used to work with made them when we had a bring in and they were gone in minutes.

nesbitt

Ikea sell the meatballs frozen too...

Little Alex

Alun wrote: »

That's a pretty authentic recipe (I did a residential Swedish course in Sweden a few years ago and did a Swedish cookery course as part of it!). The only thing I'd add that gives it an even more authentic Swedish taste for me would be some 'kryddpeppar' (ground allspice, or piment.) The Swedes use it a lot as well as, or in place of, normal black pepper.

One nice variation is to stuff a little bit of blue cheese into the middle of each ball before frying, and to serve with a 'sauce' made from simply gently melting some more blue cheese and single cream together in a pan.

Yeah, you're right. Well spotted! When I made them myself I used the recipe from "The Prawn Cocktail Years" (an exceptional cookbook, I only recently noticed that it was co-written by Simon Hopkinson; The Good Cook) and it does actually call for allspice, not cinnamon.

nesbitt wrote: »

Ikea sell the meatballs frozen too...

I was there today and had some in their canteen... home-made ones taste better! :pac: