gluten free cooking and baking

[Mama Ten Bears]

Swedish Meatballs

1 small onion, finely chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
1 lb ground meat (I use only beef, but you can use your preferred blend)
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/4 tsp cracked pepper
3/4 cup beef broth
1 egg, lightly beaten

Saute onions in 1 tbsp olive oil. Remove from pan and set aside to cool.

In a large bowl, combine spices, then add ground meat and mix together with your hands. Add beaten egg and cooked onion, then mix the meat with your hands.

Shape into meatballs.

Heat oil in skillet on medium heat. Cook meatballs until done, about 3 minutes per side. Remove meatballs and set aside.

Add broth to skillet and simmer until liquicde is reduced by half, about 5 minutes.

Return meatballs to skillet and simmer in broth for one minute more.


Variation:

Add flavoring to broth when reducing. I like raspberry chipotle bottled marinade. Ikea uses lignonberry preserves. You could use tomato paste.


Put meatball mixture into a loaf pan for a meatloaf. Top with the reduced broth mixture. I haven't tried this so YMMV.