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A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these Swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice, mashed potatoes, or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

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Swedish Meatballs and Sauce

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A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

Swedish meatballs is an easy and inexpensive meal, but has so much flavor.

A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

It completely breaks up your boring dinner rotation with a pop of something new and exciting.

A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

There is so much flavor packed into the meatballs and the sauce completes the meal.

We like to serve Swedish meatballs on rice, but you can also serve your meatballs and sauce on a bed of noodles or on top of mashed or creamed potatoes.

A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

Try this recipe this week. You’ll be glad you did.

Swedish Meatballs Recipe

Swedish Meatballs and Sauce

Swedish Meatballs and Sauce

Yield: 6 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these Swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice, mashed potatoes, or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

Ingredients

  • Swedish Meatballs Ingredients:
  • 1 lb Hot italian sausage
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup bread crumbs
  • 2 tbls red cooking wine
  • 1 tbls oregano
  • 1 tbsp thyme
  • 1 tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp pepper
  • 1 tsp salt
  • Sauce Ingredients:
  • 2 tbls butter
  • 2 tbls flour
  • 1.5 tsp better than bullion beef base
  • 1.5 cups water
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream

Instructions

  1. Combine hot Italian sausage, ground beef, eggs, bread crumbs, red cooking wine, and seasonings to create your meatball mixture.
  2. Scoop a spoonful of meatball mixture and roll into a 1" ball. Continue making meatballs out of all meat mixture.
  3. Cook the meatballs in a cast iron skillet, roll the meatballs about every minute to a different side until every side is cooked. While your meatballs are cooking, begin creating the roux
  4. Melt butter in a large cast iron skillet. Add flour and whisk until smooth to create your roux.
  5. Stir in beef base, water, and Worcestershire sauce, and heavy cream. Simmer for 10 minutes, until gravy thickens.
  6. Add meatballs into gravy and serve.
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Category: Dinner
Sauce recipe adapted from: Almost-Famous Swedish Meatballs

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A simple dinner that packs a punch, everyone loves these swedish meatballs with sauce! Serve on rice or noodles for a filling, flavorful dinner recipe.

janel-sig

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  1. Yum, my husband loves to make those for holidays when we have family over. Something a little different than the typical ham dinner

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  2. This sounds and looks so delicious. I will certainly have to try to make it up for the family! Swedish meatball recipes are usually a great idea for dinner!

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  3. Yesss, look who’s coming to dinner, lol I love Swedish meatballs and so do my kids! They make me think of my sister who use to make them for our parties!

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  4. My family loves Swedish meatballs! They’re really going to enjoy this for dinner sometime this week! I know my hubby will be super happy!

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  5. Definitely trying this out! Swedish Meatballs is my all-time favorite and usually the only time I get to have it any more is buying it frozen at the store or going to an IKEA.

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  6. Currently making this for dinner this evening, I love Swedish meatballs. Will serve over sour cream mashed potatoes. Can’t wait!

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    • Yup! You can try substituting with a balsamic vinegar or a little olive oil, or just skip it completely. It’s such a small amount it won’t make much difference in consistency. Let us know what you try!

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  8. Awesome recipe,and thanks! It was a hit with the kids and a quicker recipe than our usual swedish meatballs. We appreciate your version so much and the texture! Hope u continue to post your awesome tastes.

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