{"id":6504,"date":"2012-12-08T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2012-12-08T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:03:49","slug":"ikea-style-meatballs-with-cream-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/ikea-style-meatballs-with-cream-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea-style meatballs with cream sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kalleboo\/6623991593\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7019\/6623991593_d5fa1414c2_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kalleboo\/6623991593\/\">IKEA meatballs in singapore<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kalleboo\/\">kalleboo<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>All our kids love Ikea meatballs, and fortunately you can buy them frozen in their food shop.<\/p>\n<p>However, last time I was there they handed out free recipes for this signature dish of theirs.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few translation errors in the recipe, and the amounts are wrong for our family, so I thought it&#8217;d be useful to post a version for 8 people with the errors corrected:<\/p>\n<p><b>Meatballs:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 kg beef &amp; pork mince\n<li>2 eggs\n<li>400-600 ml cream (or milk) and water\n<li>5 tbsp finely chopped onion\n<li>100 ml breadcrumbs\n<li>4 cold boiled potatoes\n<li>8-10 tbsp butter or oil\n<li>salt\n<li>white pepper\n<li>allspice<\/ul>\n<p>Fry the onion until golden in 4 tbsp lightly browned butter. Mash the potatoes and mix the breadcrumbs with a little water.  Mix all the ingredients and season with generous amounts of salt, pepper and ground allspice.  Shape it into 60-80 round meatballs and transfer them to a floured chopping board, then fry them quite slowly in plenty of butter.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cream sauce<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200 ml double cream\n<li>400 ml water or beef stock\n<li>soy\n<li>salt\n<li>white pepper\n<li>(2 tbsp plain flower)<\/ul>\n<p>Deglaze the pan with the boiling water or stock.  Strain this and mix in the cream.  Thicken with flour if you like.  Season well.<\/p>\n<p>Serve the meatballs with the gravy, freshly boiled potatoes, lingonberry jam, a green salad and either cucumber salad or gherkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IKEA meatballs in singapore Originally uploaded by kalleboo All our kids love Ikea meatballs, and fortunately you can buy them frozen in their food shop. However, last time I was there they handed out free recipes for this signature dish of theirs. There are a few translation errors in the recipe, and the amounts are wrong for our family, so I thought it&#8217;d be useful to post a version for 8 people with the errors corrected: Meatballs: 1 kg beef &amp; pork mince 2 eggs 400-600 ml [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}