I agree with you ma'am. It's quite pleasant actually.
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Did have them a week back. But IKEA is to Swedish cuisine what Taco bell is to Mexican.
Delicious when high?
Nah but my home made meatballs with proper mashed potatoes, pickled cucumber, lingon rawstir (not jam) with 60% lingon, cream sauce with a kick ( using mango chutney instead of classic black current jelly) with sage and rosemary definitely is. :)
Id chow down on your meatballs, lovesausage.
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Their plant based meatballs are good too. I pan fry them then toss them into a slow cooker with some bachans barbecue sauce, green onion, and sesame seeds for parties and potlucks.
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Then you need to make proper Swedish meatballs. IKEA's stuff doesn't compare.
Do you have an authentic recipe? It's always hard on the web to find out which "true 100% reals straight from grandma" recipes are the right ones.
Niklas Ekstedt's recipe is authentic, Swedish, and tasty AF. If you can't find venison, beef will do.
EDIT: I imagine this is one of those things where there are 1,000's of different "proper" recipes. I shared this one as the guy who wrote it is Swedish, so I thought there must be some authenticity there, and I've made it, so can testify that it's good. Not saying it's the best or the most authentic, so slightly confused by the commenters saying it's somehow wrong?
Beeing Swedish I can confirm that a recipe by Ekstedtβs is not only authentic but probably really really good as well. Heβs gotten a few Michelin stars over the years.
Proper Swedish meatballs are easy to make. Wtf is this fancy stuff? Nah man... Source: I'm Swedish.
Only needs minced meat, bread crumbs, eggs, onion and some spices. Source: am Finnish, we do meatballs too.
Well that just sounds like normal meatballs. What makes Swedish meatballs distinct?
They are the same.
Ikr where's the frozen meatballs and powder mashed potatoes?!
Also needs more ketchup.
Well you took a treasured national meal and linked a recipe more advanced and different than the basic one most Swedes eat/do at home and said this is what meatballs is. That's set up for comments π
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I improved the taste of my version a lot by making my own Piffi Allkrydda mixture fur the sauce. Its a spice mixture that goes really well with the taste of the berries!
With lingamberries yum!
Ligmaberries
ligma balls
They havenβt been as nice since they took the horse out.
Anglais Ikea has marketed fecal-contaminated horse meatballs and chocolate pies. Bon appΓ©tit!
We in the US have gotten used to eating shit since January. Politics aside, I also still eat Chipotle.
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Do you get a Swedish flag on those in the states?
Absolutely. This is the store in Tempe, Arizona.
Their vegan meatballs are also excellent.
You can buy Swedish meatballs at IEKA??????
U been living under a rock or something? Fuck yes you can. They even have vegan (maybe vegetarian) ones too, and chicken Strips for kids and a few other things. Their restaurant is not bad, sometimes I'll take the kids there to get something I could easily grab at Walmart/ target just to get some swedish meatballs.
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Homemade
This photo has so little colour it's almost monochrome.
I've made much better, these ones don't have much colour because I made them in bulk to freeze. It was the only picture I had of my balls tho
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I can't believe you would just post a pic of your balls like that
Only until you have watched Sebastian Lege analyzing it. Amazing documentation.
They got the vegan option too. If you don't want to think about the poor horse that gave his life for you, go eat vegan stuff. Often times vegan options are just a bridge. There are other ways to eating healthy nutritious foods.
The vegan alternative tastes terrible.
And the meatballs are a blend of beef and pork in most countries. In Muslim places it's beef with chicken, in Sweden you sometimes get moose variants for special occasions.
Horse is not typically used for meatballs since the meat is too lean, you need fat as a binding agent and to prevent it from drying out.
I disagree - I thought the vegan ones were fine! Cheapest meal out I'd had in a long time. They also had a lots of beds in their restaurant, so I could relax and let my food go down on-site.
The horse joke was a reference to the massive recall a decade ago, when they found horse meat in their balls and sausages.
Also, as a non vegan, I find the veg balls to be as good as their meat Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β― As long as one doesn't expect it to taste anything like meat..
The nearest IKEA to me is about ~~5,000~~ 2500 miles away. This picture makes me feel all of them.
Edit: I failed to search the actual mileage between my home and the nearest IKEA before posting.
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