Meatball Recipes
This page features two timeless dishes: authentic Swedish Meatballs and a robust Spaghetti Sauce
with Meatballs. Both recipes use everyday ingredients and straightforward steps, making them ideal for beginner cooks or busy weeknights.
The Swedish Meatballs recipe yields about 96 small meatballs, perfect for serving 12 people generously or as appetizers at a smorgasbord.
To prepare, mix the ingredients, form 1-inch balls, and brown them in butter.
Then, create a rich gravy by stirring flour into the drippings, adding dissolved beef bouillon in hot water, and simmering the meatballs
in the sauce for 10-15 minutes. The result is tender, flavorful bites in a creamy gravy—best enjoyed with mashed potatoes or lingonberry
jam.
For pasta lovers, the Spaghetti Sauce recipe combines a tomato-based sauce with juicy meatballs, serving 7-10 people.
The sauce calls for chopped onion browned in fat, canned tomatoes, tomato paste, water, and seasonings like salt, pepper, sugar, and a
bay leaf, simmered slowly for an hour to develop deep flavors.
The meatballs are made from ground beef and pork, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic, milk, eggs, and salt/pepper.
Form them into small balls, brown in fat, and add to the sauce for a final 15-minute cook.
Serve over spaghetti for a classic, satisfying meal that’s sure to please a crowd.
Swedish Meatballs
Ingredients required1 Cup fine bread crumbs
1 cup milk
2 lb ground beef
1/2 lb of sausage
one cup finely chopped onion
two eggs, slightly beaten
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
one teaspoon nutmeg, optional
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup flour
3 beef bouillon cubes
4 1/2 cup hot water
Instructions for Swedish Meatballs Recipe
Soften bread crumbs, flavored are bette, in milk. Add beef, onions, eggs and seasoning. Mix thoroughly. Shape into about 96 balls 1 inch in diameter. Heat butter and large skillet and add balls a few at a time and brown on all sides. Remove meatballs and stir in flour into drippings. Dissolve cubes in hot water. Gradually add the flour. Mix, stirring until smooth. Cook over low heat stirring constantly, about 3 minutes. Add meatballs to sauce. Simmer 10 to 15 minutes. Makes 12 generous servings. About 8 meatballs each or 24 small Smorgasbord servings.
Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
Ingredients requiredSauce:
one onion, chopped
3 tablespoons fat
1 - number 2 can tomatoes, 2 1/2 cups
2 - 6 oz cans tomato paste
2 cups of water
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 tbsp sugar
one bay leaf
Meatballs:
3/4 lb ground beef
1/4 lb ground pork
1 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
one sprig of parsley, chopped
1 garlic, minced
1/2 cup milk
2 well beaten eggs
salt and pepper
Instructions for Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
Brown Onion in hot fat, add tomatoes, tomato paste, water, and seasoning, cook slowly 1 hour. Combine remaining ingredients for the meatballs, mix thoroughly. Form in small balls, brown in hot fat. Add to sauce and cook 15 minutes. Serve of over spaghetti. Sure 7 to 10.
