Mom's Swedish Style Meatballs

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 3/4 lb lean ground beef
• 1/2 lb lean ground veal
• 1/4 lb ground lean lamb
• 1 1/2 cups soft breadcrumbs (1-2 large stale roll freshly ground up)
• 1 cup light cream or 1 cup half-and-half
• 1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
• 2 teaspoons unsalted butter
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
• 1 dash black pepper, to taste
• 1 dash ground ginger, to taste
• 1 dash ground nutmeg, to taste
• 1 -2 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 2 tablespoonst unsalted butter
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 beef bouillon cube
• 1 1/4 cups boiling water
• 1/2 teaspoon instant coffee powder

Recipe

• 1 soak breadcrumbs in cream 5 minutes,or until very soggy.
• 2 meanwhile, in a small skillet, melt 2 tsp butter and sauté onion until soft and tender.
• 3 combine meats well (if you can't get each type, that's ok- just end up with 1 1/2 pounds ground meat total).
• 4 add soaked bread crumbs mixture, sautéed onion, egg, parsley, salt, pepper, and spices to taste to the meat mixture.
• 5 mix well until combined.
• 6 cover and chill meat mixture for 30 minutes to firm up.
• 7 form about thirty 1 1/2" size meatballs (using a meatball scoop).
• 8 brown meatballs in 1-2 tbsp butter in a very large deep sided skillet until browned on all sides, but not cooked all the way through yet; then remove from skillet using a slotted spoon and set aside in a covered dish to keep warm.
• 9 combine boiling water,coffee powder and crumbled bouillon cube together until blended.
• 10 in the hot drippings from the pan, add 2 tbsp butter and stir until melted.
• 11 whisk in 2 tbsp flour, sprinkling in the flour gradually so it doesn't clump and whisking vigorously until blended.
• 12 whisk in the coffee mixture and cook and stir until gravy thickens and bubbles, over medium or medium-high heat.
• 13 add meatballs to the pan, cover,lower heat to medium low, and let meatballs cook in the gravy until fully cooked (approx 30-40 minutes), stirring occasionally.