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Desciption

from a food network "calling all cooks" segment several years ago as made by inglill mutti with my alterations. these are about as swedish as they get and my once a year must make recipe each christmas season. this joins my top ten favorite recipes! two tips: cardamom can be expensive & hard to find. i finally found it at "wild oats" where bulk spices are sold by the ounce. i also use tyler florence's recipe for the accompanying lingonberry sauce, another hard to find item. i found 2 brands at cost plus world market, and i also hear it's sold at ikea if there's one near you.

Tags

#Time-to-make #Course #Main-ingredient #Cuisine #Preparation #Occasion #Appetizers #Main-dish #Beef #Pork #Scandinavian #European #Dinner-party #Holiday-event #Swedish #Christmas #Ground-beef #Meat #4-hours-or-less

Steps

1. Soak bread crumbs in milk or buttermilk in large mixing bowl for 5 minutes
2. Add meat
3. Eggs
4. Salt & pepper
5. Cardamom and 1 cup chopped onion
6. Mix well and roll into 1-1 / 2" meatballs
7. It helps to wet your hands as you roll
8. Saute meatballs in 1 / 4 cup butter approximately 20 minutes
9. Remove browned meatballs and set aside
10. In same skillet
11. Saute 1 / 2 cup chopped onion with 1 / 4 cup butter
12. Sugar and pepper unti caramelized
13. About 10 minumtes
14. Add beef broth to onion & sugar mixture
15. Scraping up any browned bits from the pan
16. Briefly cook over high heat
17. Add cream
18. Gravy maker and all other spices and bring to a simmer
19. Make a slurry of the cornstarch & water and whisk the slurry into the mixture to thicken
20. "if youre going to serve the meatballs right away
21. Add them to the sauce and simmer another 20-30 minutes"
22. Otherwise
23. Cool and refrigerate sauce & meatballs
24. Either together or separately
25. Combine all ingredients for the lingonberry sauce and mix well
26. Serve meatballs in a chafing dish with sauce and lingonberry sauce on the side as a dip