Ingredients
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1 cup fresh breadcrumb, dried out
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3/4 cup milk
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6 tablespoons unsalted butter
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4 shallots, minced
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2 garlic cloves, minced
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1 teaspoon caraway seed, toasted and ground
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kosher salt
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fresh ground white pepper
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1 lb ground beef
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1 lb ground pork
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1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped, plus more
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flat leaf parsley, for garnish
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1/4 cup fresh dill, chopped
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2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
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1 1/2 cups chicken broth
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3/4 cup sour cream
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1/4 cup lingonberry jam (plus more for serving) or 1/4 cup red currant jam (plus more for serving)
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1 large egg
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine the bread crumbs and the milk; stir with a fork and let stand for 5 minutes.
- Put 3 tablespoons of the butter in a small skillet and let it melt over medium heat.
- Add the shallots, garlic, and caraway; season with salt and pepper.
- Saute until softened but not browned, about 2 minutes.
- Put the ground beef and pork in a large bowl.
- Add the sweated shallot mixture, egg, parsley, and dill; season with salt and pepper.
- Squeeze the milk out of the soaked bread crumbs, add the bread to the meat mixture, and mix well using your hands.
- Pinch off about 1/2 cup worth of the meat mixture and roll it around in your moistened hands to shape it into a cue ball-sized meatball.
- Continue forming the meatballs and putting them on a platter; there should be about 20 meatballs.
- Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over moderate heat.
- When the foam starts to subside, add the meatballs in batches so you don't overcrowd the pan.
- Saute the meatballs until well-browned on all sides, about 7 minutes total.
- Remove the meatballs to a platter lined with paper towels as they are done.
- Discard most of the fat from the skillet and return it to the heat.
- Add the remaining tablespoon of butter and swirl it around to coat the pan.
- Sprinkle in the flour, and stir with a wooden spoon to dissolve into the fat.
- Pour in the chicken broth, and stir with a wooden spoon to loosen the bits from the bottom of the pan.
- Simmer and stir until the liquid is reduced and a sauce starts to form; season with salt and pepper.
- Lower the heat and stir in the sour cream.
- Return the meatballs to the sauce and stir in 1/4 cup of the lingonberry jam until combined.
- Simmer until the sauce thickens slightly and the meatballs are heated through, about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Shower with chopped parsley and transfer to a serving bowl.
- Serve the Swedish meatballs with additional lingonberry jam on the side.