This amazing recipe for homemade Swedish Meatballs starts with a best ever meatball recipe! The meatballs are then smothered in a rich creamy gravy sauce.
My family absolutely loves this recipe for Swedish Meatballs! It is one of their favourite meals and I’m sure it will become one of your family’s favourites as well. Serve Swedish Meatballs with broad egg noodles, rice, or even this great tasting recipe for Garlic Mashed Potatoes.
The key to making the sensational sauce is scraping all the browned meatball bits off the bottom of the skillet after frying the meatballs. I use a combination of butter and olive oil when browning the meatballs, the olive oil helps prevent burning the butter. Burned butter will not make a great tasting sauce, so keep an eye on the heat while browning your meatballs! Serve with egg noodles or even mashed potatoes and you’ve got a recipe the family will be asking you to make often!
Meatballs covered in a rich, creamy sauce! Whats not to love about that!
Swedish Meatballs
This amazing recipe for homemade Swedish Meatballs starts with a best ever meatball recipe! The meatballs are then smothered in a rich creamy gravy sauce.
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Servings: 4
Calories: 735kcal
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tbsp fresh oregano chopped or 1 tsp. dry oregano
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 5 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp flour
- 2 cups beef broth warmed up
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Instructions
- In small bowl combine panko bread crumbs and milk. Let sit for 10 minutes until bread crumbs have soaked up milk.
- In large skillet heat 1 tbsp. olive oil with 1 tbsp. butter, medium heat.
- Add onions and sauté until translucent, about 5 minutes, add garlic and oregano and sauté for another 1-2 minutes.
- In large bowl, combine ground beef sautéed onion, garlic and oregano.
- Mix in salt, pepper and egg, combine until egg is mixed in.
- Add bread crumbs to meat mixture and combine well.
- Use a tablespoon or scoop to make equal sized meatballs. Recipe makes approximately 20.
- Reheat skillet used to sauté onions and garlic, adding a bit more olive oil and butter if needed.
- On medium heat, brown meat balls on all sides, carefully turning so they don't break apart.
- Don't overcrowd skillet with meatballs, work in batches.
- Transfer meatballs to baking sheet and keep warm in oven while making sauce.
- Add 4 tbsp. butter to skillet, when melted whisk in flour, cook until golden brown.
- Slowly stir in heated beef broth, cook at temperature that keeps sauce at slow bubble.
- Add in cream, Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard, simmer until sauce thickens at bit.
- Add meatballs into sauce, cover and simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes. Season to taste.
- Serve with egg or broad noodles or mashed potatoes.
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Nutrition
Calories: 735kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 64g | Saturated Fat: 32g | Cholesterol: 242mg | Sodium: 1048mg | Potassium: 512mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 1425IU | Vitamin C: 2.3mg | Calcium: 125mg | Iron: 3.6mg
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Would I be able to freeze this recipe?
Hi Danielle, this recipe should freeze well.
Not with cream in it though. It will separate in the freezer. After its thawed put back in pan to warm through and then add the cream
thanks for the tip Karla.
I have made this several times and freeze them just fine. I double the sauce though. This is for my mother and I-me; we eat 4 meatballs for one dinner then freeze 4 meals. My mother really likes the sauce.
The best, simply the best! These have become a family favourite
Thank you for sharing
Denis
Thank you Denis!
I love this recipe! I make it every other week. 🙂
Thanks Jeanette, that is awesome to hear!
I made these tonight, and my family loved them! I served the meatballs over noodles. Delicious!
Hey Laura, thanks for the comment. Super that your family enjoyed this recipe. Its one of my family’s fav as well.
These were perfect Swedish meatballs! I cooked them in the oven at 400 for 18 minutes and used onion powder in place of sauteed onion. A little sour cream and a little heavy cream made for a great sauce, the worcestershire and dijon adds lots of flavor. Definitely will use this recipe again and again! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you Crissy, appreciate taking the time to comment and leave star rating.
I’m looking forward to trying this recipe tonight! Do you have a recommendation for substituting the heavy cream or is that a “must have” ingredient that makes the recipe?
Hi Eleanor, the heavy cream adds great flavour to the recipe as well it thickens the sauce. You could try milk but would have to use some kind of gravy thickener. The taste would not be as good.
Best recipe ever!!!
Could I use cream cheese and milk instead of heavy cream
Have not tried that Emilie, but sounds interesting.
I’ve made these several times and my family LOVES them.
I’m crunched for time this evening and wondered if I could bake them off instead of frying them?
Hi Deborah, yes you can bake them in the oven but you won’t get the nice brown bits from pan frying them so your gravy won’t get the brown color to them and may require a bit more season. They still taste great and you can make large batches of meatballs using the oven method.
I absolutely love this recipe. I want to make these for an appetizer at a little party. I’m wondering if this recipe would work in a Crock-pot?
I would make the recipe in a skillet to make sure you get a good gravy as shown and then transfer to crockpot to keep warm or even use to reheat the meatballs.
I have always loved Swedish Meatballs. But, have never made them. I am so glad that I chose your recipe for my first time.
Clear cut instructions that are easy to follow.
And these meatballs are the best thatI have ever had. My husband agrees.
Thank you,
Lisa Germanowski
Thank you so much Lisa, glad you enjoyed the recipe.
I made this for dinner today. It was really good. It was easy to make and I had just about everything on hand.
Thank you Catol for taking the time to comment and rate my recipe. Glad you enjoyed it.