Swedish meatballs are gross

Um, okay. i don't like salmon. there, i said it.

However, swedish meatballs are pretty ok, especially with the lingonberry jelly.

I mean they are just normal meatballs with gravy. What's so gross about them OP?

R1 - probably you'd like it more with lime or lemon.

You know what's really tasty? Whole Foods MEATLESS meatballs- YUM.

YOU'RE gross, OP!

stupid HUUUGE meatballs are fucking senseless. it's not even true Italian. who wants a big huge ball of meatloaf in with pasta?! little meatballs are perfectly fine.

Who says fucking meatballs are fucking Italian? Meatballs weren’t invented there for fuck’s fucking sake.

I like them.

Who said they're regular meatballs?

They remind me of the old Sweden House Restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in the 1970s. How the waitresses in their crinoline maid outfits turned them out from the kitchen on trays piled high a foot or more in large bowls!

I agree, OP. My mom made them all the time.

Hater.

How VERY dare you!

Your guy should leave you as soon as he sets fire to the dumpster that is your life.

I make my own but I love them.

Everyone knows that the sweet Swedish meatballs for parties are made by dumping Heinz chili sauce and grape jelly into a slow cooker with a bag of small prepared meatballs and simmering them there for 4 or 5 hours. The Swedish meatballs with gravy and sour cream are a step above for us trailer trash folk.....LOL

R14 I tried those at a party once. Vomit, total vomit, the grossest thing ever.

I saw a mouse scurrying along the floor in an IKEA cafeteria. Never eating there again.

It's the only thing I like from Ikea.

As Swedish meatballs go, they are a disappointment but not terrible. For me, Swedish meatballs are a bit Betty Draper retro, from that period in the 1960s where there was a flush of enthusiasm for "international foods."

There's more fat than lean meat in those things. Hard pass.

It's the spices that make Swedish or Norwegian meatballs. My mom made them out if beef, veal & pork, soaked bread, onion and spices. I don't know what they were though. I can't find her recipe. The gravy makes it. I wish she was still alive so I could ask her.

No need to trouble your mother, R19, the recipe didn't die with her.

The distinctive flavor is from allspice — optionally with additional nutmeg. You may see a Swedish recipe that calls for grillkrydda or allspice; the former a Swedish grilling blend of spices with a flavor similar to the blend of spices in allspice.

Allspice is not a blend of spices, is it a spice itself.

[quote]The name "allspice" was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who valued it as a spice that combined the flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove.

I’m wiith R3.

Oh and the tasty IKEA ones are made from horses. Enjoy!

R22 excellent. Maybe I can get some the horse butcher at the semi-weekly market

Loved them but cannot eat them anymore. If I'd try them again I'd have diarrhea within minutes. Every! Fucking! Time!!!

My mother used to make them in the 1950s, and the recipe was nothing like the cranberry/chili sauce mess mentioned above. The meatballs were fried, then added to a bechamel sauce with a noticeable amount of nutmeg. There were onions in the meatballs, but the first couple of times my mother made them, she didn't cook the onions first.

I had to pick the onions out as I ate them, and eventually Mother figured it out: cook the damned things first! Swedish meatballs were really quite good after that, served on top of egg noodles.

IKEA admitted they are really Turkish meatballs

Many foods around Europe have roots in the Ottoman occupations and Turkish cuisine.

Does this sauce have cardamom in it?

Eating “swedish meatballs” with the gravy isn’t so common these days and that is fine by me since I’m a fan of eating them plain or with lingonberry jam or with laxsås.

R28, normally I add cardamom to my meatballs, along with allspice and nutmeg. The mixture I use is similar to what r19 described - you must cook the onions first.

The Crockpot chili sauce and jelly recipe is NOT Swedish meatballs. Jesus, how fucking stupid do you have to be to think that?

r27, when the fuck did the Ottomans occupy SWEDEN??

Rather, IKEA's Swedish meatballs are manufactured in Turkey. More like. Frozen, sent in container ships, reheated on site.

R16 - that is the case in almost every restaurant in Paris and older cities. It is not a huge deal.