IKEA-style meatballs

IKEA released their meatball recipe in a press release recently! Of course, we gave it a go! Watch and find out how to make these! :)

Here are the ingredients you will need for a SCALED DOWN recipe.

This makes 10 - 12 meatballs and enough sauce for them.

For the full-scaled recipe, keep reading!

Ingredients:

For 10-12 meatballs:

1. Beef, ground: 250 gm or 1/2 LB [we used 90/10 ground beef]

2. Pork, ground: 125 gm or 1/4 LB [we used 80/10]

3. Onion, chopped: 110 gms or half cup [that is half an onion, medium sized]

4. Garlic, minced: 1 clove

5. Breadcrumbs: 50 gm or almost 2 oz

6. Egg: 1 whole

7. Milk, whole: 2.5 tablespoons

8. Salt/Pepper: to taste

9. Oil, for frying

For sauce:

1. Butter, unsalted and cold: 20 gms or 1.5 tablespoons

2. Flour, AP: 20gms or 1.5 tablespoons

3. Stock, Veg + Beef: [equal quantities of both] 75ml each OR 5 oz

4. Heavy cream: 75 ml or 2.5 oz

5. Soy sauce: 1 teaspoon

6. Dijon Mustard: 0.5 teaspoon

7. Salt, if needed

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients for the meatballs and make sure they are well combined.

2. Make into balls and chill for 2 hours.

3. For the sauce, make roux first using butter and flour. For detailed steps of roux making, refer the video, timestamp 02:01.

4. Then, add the stock and whisk.

5. Add the cream, mustard, and soy sauce. Whisk again. Sauce is ready when it falls into ribbons.

6. To fry the meatballs, take some oil in a pan and fry until golden on all side. Finish in the oven @ 350F for 25mins.

7. Serve with a side of potatoes. :)

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IKEA recipe, full-scale, as published in the press release

[For press release, please refer to their tweet from IKEA UK account]

Ingredients:

1. Beef, ground: 500gm

2. Pork, ground: 250gm

3. Onion, chopped: 1

4. Garlic, minced: 1 clove

5. Breadcrumbs: 100gm

6. Egg: 1 whole

7. Milk: 5 TBsp

8. Salt/Pepper

9. Oil, for frying

For sauce:

1. Butter: 40gm

2. Flour, AP: 40gm

3. Stock, Veg + Beef: 150ml each

4. Heavy cream: 75ml

5. Soy sauce: 2 Tspn

6. Dijon Mustard: 1 Tspn