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Best Ever Swedish Meatballs

Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 4
Author Julie Cavanagh

Ingredients

Meatballs

  • 500 g pork mince
  • 2 slices bread
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1/2 onion, finely diced
  • 1 tbsp Blow My Coals
  • 1 egg

Sauce

  • 2 tbsp Herb de Provence or Herby Mustard Butter (see notes)
  • 100 g mushrooms (about half a punnet)
  • 1.5 tbsp Blow My Coals
  • 2 cups beef stock
  • 3/4 cup cream
  • 1 heaped tsp wholegrain mustard (or any mustard)
  • 1.5 tbsp cornflour
  • fresh parsley to garnish (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C fan bake 

    Remove the crusts of the bread and tear into a few chunks, pour over milk and leave to soak for a few minutes 

  2. Add the pork mince, blow my coals, finely diced onion and egg.

  3. Mix thoroughly. We wear gloves and use our hands to get a really well combined mix and to break up the bread 

    Don’t be alarmed that it’s a sticky mixture, it makes me lovely light meatballs 

  4. Take large teaspoons of the mince and roll into balls and place on a lined baking tray.

    Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden 

  5. To make the sauce melt the butter in a large shallow casserole or fry pan over a medium heat. Add the sliced mushrooms 

  6. Sauté the mushrooms for 1-2 minutes 

  7. Add blow my coals and stir through 

  8. Add beef stock and mustard, simmer for a minute or so 

  9. Add the cream and simmer for 5 minutes over a medium heat 

  10. Remove the meatballs from the oven 

  11. Dissolve cornflour in a little water and add the slurry to the sauce to thicken. Cook out for a minute before adding the meatballs to the sauce 

  12. To serve we cooked some egg fettuccine and added an additional teaspoon of herb de Provence better and some fresh parsley to toss through the pasta 

  13. You can serve the meatballs with pasta, mash or rice. Which ever you prefer 

    Fresh chopped parsley is a great garnish for the meatballs 

Recipe Notes

If you don’t eat pork you could use beef mince for this recipe 

If you don’t have any pepper and me butter just use normal butter but add in one clove of garlic