The Most Delicious Swedish Meatballs

The most delicious Swedish meatballs are made with simple ingredients and are quick to throw together for dinner!

Quick! People are getting hungry and you need a plan for dinner fast. Pick the recipe up for these meatballs and everyone will be satisfied.

The ingredients in these meatballs are simply, an egg, bread crumbs, ground beef, an onion, and green pepper. All common ingredients that are most likely in your kitchen. Perfect!

The delicious aroma wafting from the dinner plate with warm meatballs, soft egg noodles, and a yummy sauce makes such a complete dish. What a winner this recipe is and you should keep it on hand when you have unexpected dinner guests or to use once a week!

Why You Will Love This Recipe

Simple– It doesn’t take a genius to prepare and make these meatballs. The taste is simple and delicious which will insure that your family will love these.

Fast– You can quickly throw this recipe together. Combine the ingredients with your hands, shape them into balls, and broil for less than 10 minutes!

Hearty– This recipe is so filling which means your kids won’t need a snack before bed! I love to think of dinners to make that are high in protein and keep our bellies full.

Stores Well– There are many ways you could prepare these for freezer meals or defrost for a quick dinner. You could form the meat balls raw and store them or cook the meatballs and freeze them that way.

Tips For Making Swedish Meatballs

• Defrost your meat beforehand if it was frozen prior to making these.
• Use your hands for mixing the meatball ingredients, you’re going to have to roll them into balls anyways.
• Use high quality ingredients if you can, this makes them taste so much better. For example, grass fed butter, organic meat, and homemade breadcrumbs.
• Keep an eye on the meatballs while they’re cooking. Ovens vary on their broil settings so it is best to cook them slowly and narrow down the exact temperature you prefer.

How To Make Meatballs Hold Together

• Bread Crumbs
• Egg
• Ground Meat

The Ratio of these three ingredients is important. Two tablespoons of bread crumbs, one egg, and two pounds of ground meat. These amounts will ensure that your meatballs will hold together! You can also add other spices to the meatballs but you don’t want to overthrow the consistency for this reason.

Broiling meatballs in the oven also helps with holding the meatballs together. This keeps the juices from over-softening the mixture and causing them to fall apart which can happen when they are baked or cooked in a pan.

What Is In Swedish Meatballs?

Meatballs:

Ground Beef– When using ground beef I normally make these with a low-fat ground beef. I also have used other meats such as deer, antelope, and elk.

Bread Crumbs– Italian or panko style breadcrumbs taste good but homemade sourdough breadcrumbs are delicious as well.

Eggs–

Salt– Redmond real salt or Kosher https://redmond.life/

Green Pepper– Minced very finely.

Onion– Chopped and minced well.

Sauce:

Tomato Soup– I love to use Amy’s tomato soup if I don’t have homemade tomato soup. Use a n0n-creamy soup. You want this soup to be mainly tomatoes.

Butter

Brown Sugar– Light or dark brown sugar.

Mustard– Yellow mustard but you could change up the type of mustard in the future for a little different flavor.

Distilled White Vinegar

Worcestershire Sauce

How To Make The Most Delicious Swedish Meatballs

The Meatballs

1. Add ground beef, bread crumbs, egg, salt, green pepper, and onion to a large bowl and combine with your hands.
2. Roll the meat into about 35 meatballs, about 1 1/2-2 inches thick and set onto a lined baking sheet.
3. Set the oven to broil on high and broil the meatballs for three minutes. Turn the meatballs over and broil for another 3 minutes (watch the meatballs to make sure you like the cook on them)
4. Drain the meatballs and set aside or put them into a crock pot.

The Sauce

1. Melt the butter in a microwave-safe dish.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together tomato soup, butter, brown sugar, mustard, vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce.
3. Pour the sauce over the meat balls and keep warm in a crock pot or serve immediately.

Suggestions For Swedish Meatballs

• When the meat balls are finished make some egg noodles and mix that in with the sauce to have a complete main dish for dinner.
• This recipe is great for picnics, birthday parties, and gettogethers! Make them ahead of time and bring to the event in a crock pot.
• Instead of making the sauce for these meatballs, just pour your favorite pasta sauce over them and serve on buns for a meatball sub! Here is my recipe for a yummy pasta sauce: https://farrcreek.com/easy-homemade-pasta-sauce/
• Broccoli or asparagus is fresh and tastes very good as a side for this recipe.

Storing Options

After rolling the meat mixture into balls, you could put them into Ziploc freezer bags and keep frozen for up to four months. (I have eaten them after a year in the freezer and they’ve tasted great).

Once meat balls are cooked you could put them into Ziploc freezer bags and keep frozen for up to four months.

For either of these storing options you could make the sauce fresh when you are ready to make this dish or you can freeze the meat balls with the sauce on them.

Defrost by putting the bag of meatballs into the fridge over night and make for dinner the following day.

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