Mom's Swedish Meatballs
"In my house growing up one got to choose their birthday dinner meal. This one was always my first choice. Mom makes the best swedish meatballs - they are different from the standard heavy, thick gravy appetizer and instead are light and fluffy with a hint of sweet and spice. When I grew up mom gave me the recipe. My husband just told me the other day that I've finally perfected it and mine taste just like mom's. (I'll never tell her that, though - her's will always be "the best"!)"
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 - 1 1⁄2 lb ground turkey
- 1 cup mashed potatoes (I use instant, it's quicker)
- 1⁄2 cup breadcrumbs (I use whole wheat)
- 1 egg
- salt
- pepper
- 1 pinch ginger
- grating nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1⁄4 cup flour (Wondra)
- 20 -24 ounces evaporated milk (I like using 2 cans for more moisture and liquid to later soak up in pasta!)
- egg noodles
directions
- Take off any rings - your hands are going to get sloppy!
- If using instant potatoes, make them first.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, except for flour and milk, and mix well using your hands.
- Form into medium sized balls and roll in Wondra flour until coated.
- Place on baking pan coated w/ Pam about 1-2 inches apart.
- Bake for eight minutes, then turn meatballs over and bake for another eight minutes.
- Put meatballs in a large casserole dish and pour evaporated milk all over. Sprinkle additional nutmeg over the entire dish.
- Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve hot over egg noodles.
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I'm an eighth grade teacher who loves to correct people's grammatical mistakes! My husband and I live on the seacoast of New Hampshire and we have a Springer Spaniel named Walter. We love skiing in the winter, hiking in the fall and summer, and going to the beach anytime of year!
Before I got married, my mom used to warn my fiance that I couldn't cook. And in part it was true - I despised the idea of slaving away over a hot stove (as my mom used to call "making dinner!") and so avoided pots, pans, knives, fresh ingredients, and the dials on the oven like the plague. But once my fiance and I moved in together, I realized either I learn to cook or we were going to go hungry. So I learned to cook - and realized it was not as hard as I'd always imagined. In the last few years my husband and I have ditched our former poor eating habits and learned to appreciate a myriad of new and healthy foods. And thank goodness for recipezaar - we've found so many new things to try and avoided making a weekly dinner menu that repeats itself over and over. I've even learned how to cook the occasional doggy dinner/treat for my Springer Spaniel, Walter. He loves recipezaar, too!
