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Sauté the Onion
Cook finely chopped onion gently in butter until soft and translucent.
Swedish Meatballs with Cream Gravy
A skillet full of browned meatballs leaves behind the bits that make the gravy taste so rich. Warm allspice and cloves hum behind the silky cream without turning the supper sweet.
Prep25 minCook35 minTotal1 hrDifficultyMedium
Ingredients
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Swedish Meatballs
Cream Gravy
Instructions
- 1 tbsp butter, 3 tbsp onion
- ½ cup light cream, ½ cup water, ½ cup breadcrumbs, 3 tbsp onion, 24 oz ground chuck, 8 oz ground pork, 2 eggs, 2 tsp salt, ¼ tsp pepper, ¼ tsp allspice, cloves
- remaining butter, meatballs
- pan drippings, remaining butter as needed, 3 tbsp flour, 1 cup light cream, 1 cup water, salt, pepper, gravy seasoning
- meatballs, gravy
Serving Suggestions
- Mashed potatoes, buttered egg noodles, lingonberry jam or cranberry sauce, and roasted carrots.
Nutrition (Approximate Per Serving)
Yield
Roughly 40–50 meatballs — Serving size: About 7–8 meatballs with gravy
Some ingredients could not be modeled and may meaningfully change the totals. Treat these values as a rough estimate.
- Calories
- 650
- Carbohydrates
- 12.5 g
- Protein
- 32 g
- Fat
- 52 g
- Saturated Fat
- 23 g
- Cholesterol
- 230 mg
- Sodium
- 1010 mg
- Fiber
- 0.6 g
- Total Sugars
- 3 g
