Homemade Turkey Swedish Meatballs and Gravy Recipe (video)

[Saviolo]

We saw an ad recently telling couples to go to IKEA for a romantic meal at the IKEA diner. We always feel like making dinner yourself is a little more romantic, so here is a way you can make delicious turkey Swedish meatballs at home! The way this recipe works, they come out a little more like little patties instead of meatballs, but that's just semantics, really. These are fairly light in flavour, and you can definitely spice them up if you want to. Blitz up a dried pepper or add some cayenne to the spice mix if you want a little bit of heat.

The mixture comes out quite wet and sticky, so forming them into balls is a little challenging. Also, Swedish meatballs tend to have a little bit more of a bouncy or springy texture, so you need to work them slightly more than a typical Italian-style meatball, but less than one of those much firmer Chinese-style meatballs. The flavour profile for the Swedish variety is very simple, just allspice, nutmeg, and some parsley!

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[Bayard]

1. When I make these,

The meatballs always fall apart. It ends up being ground turkey over noodles. Will check this out.

Thanks!

Edit: Interesting that he doesn't use sour cream in the sauce. I substitute plain yogurt, but I thought it was mandatory.

[Saviolo]

2. You could replace the heavy cream with sour cream or yogurt.

It's a very round flavour with the roux and the beef broth, so a bit of sour cream or yogurt would add a little bit of zing to the flavour for sure. It would also take less time to reduce that way, because those are less liquid than the heavy cream.

[PortTack]

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