{"id":78,"date":"2016-10-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelleadekolu.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/20161019trying-a-new-recipe-swedish-meatballs\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T20:28:02","slug":"20161019trying-a-new-recipe-swedish-meatballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/20161019trying-a-new-recipe-swedish-meatballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying a New Recipe | Swedish Meatballs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I was on youtube watching Laura in the Kitchen (as I always do) and she was making Swedish Meatballs. I have my dad\u2019s recipe for meatballs and apart from Ikea, I don\u2019t really enjoy many others so I rarely try. Last night, I saw one of those minute long recipe videos on Instagram and guess what they were making\u2026 Swedish Meatballs! <\/span><\/p>\n

Not sure how many times I am going to type Swedish Meatballs.. but I digress.<\/span><\/p>\n

The recipe follows exactly that of Laura Vitale\u2019s, you can find it <\/span>here. W<\/span>ith the exception of a few steps\/ingredients that I\u2019ll list below. I also took pictures so you follow what I did.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My Ingredients…. \u00a0not pictured is one egg. Ignore the celery.<\/p>\n

STEP 1<\/h1>\n

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Finely diced onions and a 1 Tb of butter..Sauteed for 5mins<\/p>\n

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Removed from heat and added salt, nutmeg and allspice<\/p>\n

STEP 2<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Completely mixed all ingredients by hand<\/p>\n

Onion mixture, cayenne pepper, ground beef, bread crumbs &\u00a0milk, salt & pepper, 1 egg,<\/p>\n

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Formed meatballs… 1lb of beef made about 24 meatballs<\/p>\n

Not pictured…<\/h1>\n

I added olive oil to the pan and seared the meatballs until colored on each side and removed them from the pan.<\/p>\n

STEP 3<\/h1>\n
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Butter and flour makes a roux…stirring all the while.<\/p>\n

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Then added my beef stock, \u00a0meatballs,\u00a0more cayenne pepper and allowed to boil.<\/p>\n

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Added 1\/2 cup of sour cream..Laura Vitale’s Recipe calls for chopped parsley but I didn’t include it<\/p>\n

STEP 4<\/h1>\n

At this point, the recipe is done but after tasting, I felt something was missing… I remembered the 2nd Recipe on IG and went a step further.<\/p>\n

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The missing piece.<\/p>\n

Added 1\/4 cup of Worcestershire to the sauce. Made a world of difference.<\/p>\n

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Served with Egg Noodles<\/p>\n

Final Verdict<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Unfortunately, I enjoyed the sauce more than I did the meatballs. It was a bit to sweet for my taste, even with the extra ground pepper.<\/p>\n

In the future, I would make the sauce but stick with my dad\u2019s recipe for now. Maybe I’ll share it soon \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll still try new recipes though. <\/span><\/p>\n

Let me Know what you think<\/span><\/p>\n

-Mikki<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I was on youtube watching Laura in the Kitchen (as I always do) and she was making Swedish Meatballs. I have my dad\u2019s recipe for meatballs and apart from Ikea, I don\u2019t really enjoy many others so I rarely try. Last night, I saw one of those minute long recipe videos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[42,43],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-drinks","tag-food","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikkisoxtra.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}