Meatballs are a staple here in Scandinavia and today I decided to have a go at making them from scratch. They were delicious and so easy to make. My husband, the resident expert on Swedish meatballs, said my meatballs were even better than his mother's. 
by Tina Nordström
Ingredients
1 pound (500 grams) ground meat
3 slices white bread
1/2 cup (1 1/2 dl) milk
1 egg
3/4 cup (2 dl) finely chopped leeks
Butter and oil for frying
Method
Mix the egg and the milk in a bowl. Cut off the crust of the bread and place in the bowl so that the bread soaks up the liquid and gets mushy. Mix in the ground meat and the leek. Season with salt and pepper and let it rest for 10 minutes. With wet hands, make small balls of the mixture. Fry them in oil and butter for 10 minutes. Make sure that they are done by testing one.
Serve with any form of potatoes and some lingonberry jam.
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WOOT WOOT, looks awesome Twink! Love the presentation and
at the meatballs and mashed
potatoes 
Where's the sauce though? I though Swedish meatballs always came with that mmmmm mmmmmmmm sauce??????????
1I'm not much of a gravy person but you have that with this of course.
2Those look great, awesome presentation too! What kind of gravy do you normally serve it with?
3I don't normally serve it with gravy but if I were going to it would be a basic beef based gravy.
4wow those sound so yummy twink! i don't think i have ever used leeks in anything i have ever made. i am so country.
5My meatballs are posh
6
they really sound wonderful.
7Those are delish Twinkle
so cool to see you posting recipes again.. I love them so
much. The pics are always so darn nice too. 
You cant go wrong with meatballs, they are
soooooooooooo yummy
8Ikea Swedish meatballs
MMmmmmmmmmm I'm so craving these now!!
9kARMA, YOU LIKE ALL MEATBALLS! HAHAAHAHAHA
10Karma is a meatball
Aud -- me too never used a leek before
11Hahahahahaha Yayi go eat some hairy meat rocks and STFU biznitch
12Karma -- I know the gravy you are talking about -- it's sort of white. I guess Stouffers is the only one who puts it on their meatballs!!
13Stouffers!!!!!
Lisa wtffffffffff I've never had Swedish meatballs
without the gravy! Dudes that is what is so 
MMMMMMMMMMMMM 
Stouffers hahahahahahahahahaha 
14I hope I explained that gravy right
They use two kinds here, cream sauce or brown
sauce, but I've never made either since I don't like gravy. Anyway these meatballs were plenty moist and flavorful on their own.
15LOl meatball wars
these look yummy 
what teh hell is STFU?
16What if I don't even know what Leaks are?
These look so good though.
17STFU = shut the F*CK UP biznitch
18Here's a tip for taking food photos: Set your camera to macro, turn off the flash and use whatever lighting you have in your kitchen. That's what I did for this photo and for the Baked Rigatoni one.
19i love me some swedish meatballs. im going to have to try these out...
thanks twink!
20mmmm
I LOVE MEATBALLS
they have these really good ones at IKEA over here, and they serve it with cranberry sauce. VERY yums!
21I am in the middle of making it!
Keri
22Yay! I hope you like it Keri!
23i love meatballs with sweet & sour sauce
24Have to have the Lingonberry jam.
For my wedding my Grandmother made 3 huge VATS of swedish meatballs. ALL of them were gone by the end.
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