Mini Meatballs with creamy gravy

Hello everyone! This week I'm coming at you with some mini meatballs. I don't know how accurate it is, but we call them swedish meatballs where I am from. I have no idea if they are swedish or not, but we say it anyways. They are usually served with lingonberry jam and potatoes. Lingonberry jam is really hard to get a hold of, but luckily it is basically identical to cranberry sauce, so I went with that. You may be apprehensive over a fruit spread in with meatballs, but I am telling you, the sweet balances so well with the meat and the lightly creamy sauce. If all goes well, your finished product will look like this:

Ingredients for the Balls

• 1/2 onion
• butter
• 1/4 cup of milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup of breadcrumbs (I could only find italian seasoned, so I omitted the other spices)
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp allspice
• S & P
• 1lb pork
• 1lb beef

Ingredients for the Sauce

• more butter
• 3 tbsp flour
• 3 cups of beef broth
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 cup of heavy cream
• 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce.

Making the meat mix

• dice an onion, cook in butter until translucent and slightly caramelized
• yell at your roommate for not cleaning the cooktop like he said he would

• put onions, flour, breadcrumbs, milk, eggs into a bowl. Mix until combined

• add the meat, mix, cover and put in the fridge for an hour

• study for your french quiz
• preheat oven to 400 F (about 205 for the Euros out there)
• put foil on a baking tray, roll out small equally sized balls of your meat mix and place them on the tray.

• put em in the oven for about 20-25 minutes (or browned)
• allow to rest for 5 minutes or so while you work on the sauce.

The Sauce
is very simple, it is a roux plus cream and beef stock basically

• to make a rue you melt the butter, toss in the flour and mix until golden brown. This mix with thicken the sauce.

• add the stock, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper

• add the cream, S&P

• reduce to about 1/2 its volume and thickened

• place the meatballs in the pan with the sauce and mix for a few minutes until the meatballs are warmed through.

• the best way to enjoy this is with lingonberry/cranberry sauce and some boiled potatoes if you would like. I just halved 2 small potatoes and boiled them until fork tender and dressed with S, P, butter, and some dill. This meal is a knockout and all I can say is that I am happy that my roommate was out of town over the weekend, so I could enjoy all of it myself. I would love to hear what you guys would like to see. And if you make this, tell me how it went!

See you in the next one.