Swedish Style Meatballs Recipe

5 from 1 vote

Bite-size Swedish meatballs with a creamy sauce are perfect by themselves or over a big pile of roasted spaghetti squash.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Sweden

Keyword meatballs, swedish style

Prep Time 25

Cook Time 30

Total Time 55

Servings people

Calories 975kcal

Cost 15

Heat some cooking fat in a large skillet placed over medium heat.
Cooking fat
Add the onion, and cook, stirring consistently, until the onions are soft, about 4-5 minutes.
1 onion
In a bowl, combine the beef, pork, almond meal, egg yolks, allspice, nutmeg, and cooked onion.
1 lb. ground beef, 1 lb. ground pork, ½ cup almond meal, 2 large egg yolks, ¼ tsp. allspice, ¼ tsp. nutmeg
Season with salt and pepper to taste, and give everything a good stir.
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Roll the meat into 1 ¼-inch meatball.
Add some more cooking fat to the skillet and brown the meatballs in batches on all sides, about 5 minutes per batch, and set aside.
Cooking fat
Melt the ghee in the skillet placed over medium heat.
¼ cup ghee
Gradually whisk in the beef stock and cook, constantly whisking, for about 2 minutes. Stir in the coconut milk and season to taste with salt and pepper.
4 cups beef stock, 1 cup coconut milk
Remove a small amount of the sauce from the pan. Mix the tapioca starch into that small amount of sauce and slowly return it to the pan, whisking consistently until it thickens.
2 tbsp. tapioca starch
Stir in the meatballs and cook, occasionally stirring, until cooked through and thickened, about 12 to 15 minutes.
Serve immediately with parsley.
1 tbsp. fresh parsley leaves