Ikea Style Meat Balls
When we were planning our Moink Balls meal, we took a visit to Costco and picked up a gigantic bag of meat balls. There were so many in the bag, we had 2 full baking sheets of Moinks, 7 meatball sandwiches and still had a bunch left over. We decided to go hunting for a recipe for Swedish meatballs. Fortunately google directed me towards a super simple recipe for the gold standard: IKEA’s meatballs!
Australian food blogger Ellie publishes a super spot called Almost Bourdain. Ellie kindly posted the recipe for IKEA’s balls that she found in an IKEA cook book.
Given that we were using the frozen balls, I’m just going to lay out the incredibly simple gravy recipe in Ellie’s words.
Ingredients:
100 ml cream
200 ml boiling water or beef stock
1 tbsp white flour (optional)
Salt and white pepper
Method:
Swirl out the pan with boiling water or meat stock. Strain the pan juice and dilute with cream. Thicken with white flour if preferred. Season well, and serve this and the meatballs with freshly boiled potatoes, uncooked lingonberry jam.
Since we didn’t make our own balls, there was no pan juice to be had. We warmed the balls in one big pan, while combining 3 cups of beef stock and 1 cup of whipping cream with the dry ingredients in a separate pan. As the simple gravy began to thicken, we poured the sauce onto my balls to allow them to soak up the flavour. As we weren’t prepared with new potatoes to boil, we served them over a nice pile of mashed taters.
So simple and incredibly good. They taste just like the ones at the big blue and yellow box!
