Swedish Meatball Recipe By Food Blogger @Jennysmatblogg - Printable Meal Planner Included!

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Scandinavia’s biggest food and travel blogger, Jenny Wersén from @Jennysmatblogg, shares her best-loved recipe of a timeless classic with us this week: Swedish Meatballs.



Traditional Swedish Meatballs
Servings: 5-6

Ingredients - meatballs:
1 lb ground beef
1 lb ground pork
1 egg
5 beef stock cubes
salt and pepper to taste

Ingredients - sauce:
1 cup water
1 cup heavy cream
3 beef stock cubes
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon lingonberry jam* You can get this at your nearest Ikea or sub it for cranberry jam.
1-2 tablespoons cornstarch
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:
Mix all ingredients for the meatballs in a bowl. Roll meatballs and fry in a pan with lots of butter on high to medium heat. Once cooked through, place them in another pan while you’re making the sauce.

Pour water into the pan where you fried the meatballs, whisking up all the wonderful flavours. Bring to a gentle boil, then strain it. Pour in heavy cream, stock cubes and lingonberry jam. Thicken the sauce with cornstarch until reaching desired consistency. Add salt and peppar to taste. Add meatballs and let everything simmer for a few minutes.

Serve with crispy snow peas, boiled potatoes and lingonberry jam. Enjoy!



Beside full-time food blogging, Jenny is a cookbook writer and a mother of four young children. We checked in with Jenny to get an exclusive peek into her busy life and a few practical life hacks too!

Jenny, life with four school-aged children can probably get pretty hectic. What time-saving, life-smoothing advice can you give us?
- Prepping is everything! When it comes to food, a great idea is to peel the potatoes the night before or thaw the chicken overnight in the fridge. Another brilliant hack is to cook a big batch of food so you can freeze the leftovers for another family meal in the coming week. You’ll save a whole bunch of time this way!

How do you get your kids involved in cooking?
- I think it’s really important to let the kids help plan family dinners. They enjoy it more this way! In our house, everyone gets to decide what we’ll have for dinner at least once a week.

Lastly, with a new year just begun and probably a few food-related resolutions for some of our readers, what are a few things to think about if one wants to start eating healthier?
- Fruit and vegetables are obviously an important part of our diet, but I believe you can eat everything - in moderation. Having said that, I’m pretty strict with sweets during the week, with the exception of birthdays or holidays.

We couldn’t agree more with Jenny - balance is everything! And that is also a central idea in our Meal Planner pages.

Not only does planning what you’ll eat a week or two in advance mean that you’re able to control better what you put into your body, making sure you include all of your 5-A-Days.

Meal planning also helps reduce food waste - meaning this is a win-win for both your wallet AND the environment.

Not to mention the peace of mind a meal plan will give you in the middle of a stressful week!



First, make a “library of dishes” by entering your staples and favorite meals into the list to the right. Then, distribute them over the weeks and, voilà! You now have a delicious 9-week meal plan.

You’ll find these pages in stage 6 when creating your planner.

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