Swedish Meatballs with Egg Noodles
Total time: 30 minutes
You can serve this with any pasta but I prefer egg noodles or chunky pasta. To stick with tradition you could make small dumplings or hand cut noodles. The dill is the secret to this dish.
Ingredients:
- 8oz ground beef (mince), 225gr, 8oz
- 1 small onion, 110gr, 3.9oz
- 1/3 cup bread crumbs, 36gr, 1.3oz
- 1 egg, 65gr, 2.3oz
- 2 tsp dried dill weed,
- 1 1/2 cups chicken stock, 340gr, 12oz
- 1/2 cup Greek or plain yogurt, 150gr, 5.3oz
- 1 1/2 tbs cornstarch (corn flour, maizena) dissolved in 2 tbs water, 12gr, .42oz
- 6 - 8 oz (250gr) egg noodles about 1/2 package or 1 1/4 cups chunky pasta, 100gr, 3.5oz large macaroni
- 1 tbs butter, 14.2gr, .5oz
Instructions:
- Put water on high heat for pasta.
- Mince onion.
- In medium bowl combine onion, half of the dill, the egg, bread crumbs and beef. Mix well and form into small meatballs, about 1" (2.5cm) in diameter.
- In a medium skillet with lid heat the chicken stock.
- When simmering add the meatballs, being careful that they don't touch. Cover and continue to simmer until done, stirring and turning the meatballs once or twice, about 15 minutes.
- Cook noodles.
- Dissolve cornstarch in chicken stock.
- When meatballs are done add the dill to the stock and move the meatballs to the sides of the pan.
- Turn up the heat a bit and add the cornstarch mixture, stirring until thickened and clear.
- Drain noodles and toss with butter.
- Remove meatballs from heat and stir in the yogurt, mixing well.
- Serve, meatballs on top of or next to the pasta. Sprinkle with a bit more dill...
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| Nutrition Information Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 1479 / 739.5 Total Carbohydrates: 128 / 64 Dietary Fiber: 6 / 3 Total Fat: 71 / 35.5 Saturated Fat: 32 / 16 Cholesterol: 500 / 250 Protein: 71 / 35.5 Calcium: 410 / 205 Sodium: 868 / 434 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
