something new: swedish meatballs

I'm not sure why, but I got out of work hoy and wanted something totally out of the blue for dinner, something that I'd never made before. Entonces, I sat in bumper to bumper rush hora traffic and got to googling. After a few minutes, I'd found it. Swedish meatballs atop egg noodles--and better than the kind you get at IKEA (fyi I LOVE those!). I think they turned out great! Tasted dern good, too.

You'll need:

1 lb ground beef (or turkey)

1 egg

2.5 cups bread crumbs

1 bag egg noodles

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2-1 cup beef broth

Spices as you like: salt, pepper, dill

First things first, preheat the oven to 325. Next, you gotta get over touching raw meat. You have to physically mix 1 lb of ground beef with 2 1/2 cups of bread crumbs and 1 slightly beaten egg:



Once it's all mixed, start rolling it into little balls. 1 lb should give you about 15-20. Then, warm a large skillet on medium heat and melt 2 tbsp. butter, then brown all the meatballs in the pan. This will take about 10-15 minutes.



(you'll want to just keep rotating them so most of the surfaces are browned...tedious I know)



When they look like the picture above, you're ready to transfer them so a 9x9 baking pan. Once in the pan, pour 1/2 cup (I did a whole cup) beef broth. Let the meatballs bake in the broth for 30 minutes. After that, leave oven on, take out the pan and pour 1/2 cup of heavy cream and sprinkle some dill weed. Stir everything together, as if you were making a casserole.



Put back in the oven for 15 minutes. In the meantime, bring water to a boil atop the stove for the egg noodles (I used whole wheat egg noodles, about half the large bag). These take about 7 minutes to cook, and they will be ready as the meatballs are done. I also poured what was left of the beef broth into the water the noodles boiled in for added flavor.



Last, take everything out--drain the noodles, stir the meatballs into the cream and beef broth base and serve atop the noodles. It should look something like this:





Mmmm delish!!! Enjoy! Later this semana I promise to post things mas interesting than what I eat. :) Feliz Lunes!!