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Beef meatballs & mash
Also known as meatballs and mash · beef meatballs with mashed potato · meatballs with mash
Beef meatballs in a cream sauce with mash and a dot of lingonberry. Sweet-sharp berries against the gravy is the whole trick.
Typical serving
680 kcal
usually 530–860 kcal
 Protein | 32 g |
|---|---|
 Carbs | 62 g |
 Fat | 34 g |
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Before you start
- a wide pan, so the meatballs brown instead of steaming
Ingredients
Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 220gbeef mince
- 400gpotatoes
- 30gbreadcrumbs
- 50mlwhole milk
- 1eggs
- 1onion
- 20gbutter
- 1 tbspplain flour
- 300mlbeef stock
- 25mlcream
- ½ tspallspice and nutmeg
- 1 tbsplingonberry or redcurrant jelly
- to tastesalt and pepper
Method
7 steps
chop · 5mOnion grated rather than chopped. Grated it vanishes into the meat; chopped, the pieces act as fault lines and the meatballs break up in the pan.
soak · 10m walk awayBreadcrumbs left in the milk until they are a paste. This is what keeps them soft — without it they are small dense burgers.
fold · 12mBeef, soaked crumbs, egg, onion, allspice, nutmeg, salt and pepper worked together by hand until sticky, then rolled with wet hands into balls the size of a walnut.
boil · 22m walk awayPotatoes into cold salted water and cooked until soft all the way through.
fry · 16mMeatballs into the butter over a medium heat in two batches, turned until browned all over and firm to a finger. Cut one open before serving: minced beef has to be cooked right through, brown in the middle with no pink and no pink juice.
simmer · 8mMeatballs out, flour stirred into the pan fat, then the stock added a little at a time and whisked smooth before the cream goes in. Meatballs back for a few minutes at a low bubble.
finish · 8mPotatoes drained, dried in the pan, mashed and seasoned. Gravy over the meatballs, jelly on the side of the plate rather than stirred in.
Worth knowing
The lingonberry is non-negotiable in Sweden — the sour berry exists to reset the palate between rich bites.
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