Рецепт Swedish Meatballs with Gravy – Low Calorie
This is not the authentic recipe of Swedish meatballs, and you won’t care about that once you taste them. These meatballs are juicy and moist, I’ve chosen ingredients that enhances the flavor, making it a dish to remember.
The calories were cut down enough to make you enjoy this dish with mashed potato on the side. Having said that, if you decide to have mashed potato as a side dish, do not add salt, butter, or milk to it. This gravy is so rich that the mashed potato will absorb the entire flavor and you will not miss a thing, I promise.
One more thing, it’s important that you use either fresh or stale breadcrumbs but don’t use the dry store bought ones. Just pick any bread you have be it brown or white it doesn’t make a difference.
Note: If you refrigerate this dish, the gravy will get thicker, so just add 1/4 cup of hot water to it before heating it up.
Swedish Meatballs
Serves 2. One serving is 300 calories
For the meatballs:
- 1 1/2 tablespoons minced onion
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 8oz (200 gm) 95% lean ground beef
- 1 tablespoon bread crumbs from fresh or stale bread
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Salt
- Black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon red chili powder (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C.
- In a bowl add all the ingredients and mix well.
- Make 10 balls from this mixture, and bake for 17 to 20 minutes.
- Take out the meatballs from the oven and immediately cover, this will keep them moist.
- Now start making the sauce.
For the sauce:
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1 1/2 cup water (at room temperature)
1/2 cube chicken bullion (reduced salt)
Black pepper
- Add butter to hot pan.
- Add the flour and stir for two minutes on medium heat.
- Add bullion to water, it won’t mix but will make it easy when making the sauce.
- Add the previous mixture to the flour and butter, stir continuously to prevent lumps. When thick add the black pepper and the meatballs.
- Let it simmer on low heat for 2 minutes. Serve hot.