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SCANDIFOOD: MEATBALLS WITH CREAM SAUCE AND MASHED POTATOES

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Serves: 4-6

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For domestic goddess... This is the ultimate traditional comfort food. Serve with Lingonberry jam (can be found in Ikeas if nowhere else...). Can be made with just beef, a mix of beef and pork, or a mix of pork or elk, or other venison... I wouldn't use just pork. I usually use beef, or the beef/pork mix.

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For the meatballs and sauce

  • 500 grams minced beef (finely minced)
  • milk (or fizzy mineral water)
  • white bread (some, or breadcrumbs or leftover boiled potatoes - it's the starch we're after)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 medium onion (or large, finely chopped and softened in a bit of oil in a pan, it must be really soft - or a sachet of dried onion flakes, both work just fine)
  • 1 teaspoon salt (or so)
  • 1 pinch of white pepper (a good pinch)
  • butter
  • oil (for frying)
  • 200 ml cream (or a little more, for the sauce)

For the mashed potatoes

  • 16 medium potatoes (boiled)
  • 400 ml milk (heated)
  • salt
  • 100 grams butter
  • lingonberry jam

Method

  1. Let the starch swell in the liquid. Mix in the eggs and the spices and the onion. Mix in the meat. Mix well so it all blends together seamlessly.
  2. Form small balls using your hands (I usually fill up my white plastic cutting board that has been rinsed in cold water). It helps if your hands are a little bit wet.
  3. In a frying pan, heat up butter and a little bit of oil. Fry the balls to give a nice brown crisp outside. Transfer to ovenproof dish in batches.
  4. When done, pour over cream and finish off in the oven so the meatballs are cooked through. Add more cream as needed (or water). You can flavour the sauce with a bit of soy or Touch of Taste if you want.
  5. Peel and boil potatoes until soft. Push through ricer, add hot milk and soft butter, season. Stir with a big balloon whisk, and you should have a fluffy mash. That's how I make this. If all your ingredients are hot, and you don't over stir you should be fine. Otherwise you will have glue....
  6. Emergency standby: instant mashed potato grains. If you have added too much milk and your mash is too soft, add some grains and they will correct texture.
  7. Serve with the lingonberry jam! Yummy!

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