Reviewed: Nov. 19, 2009

This wound up being a great recipe, but I made SIGNIFICANT changes to the sauce. I hate it when people review when they've made a lot of changes, but I think the sauce recipe, as written, must be a mistake. I wouldn't want anyone to take the time to make this to be disappointed with the outcome. when just a few changes made a fabulous sauce. I did make the meatballs with ground turkey (since that was all I had), and they turned out quite well - other than that, I made them as written. For the sauce, I used butter instead of oil, chicken stock instead of water (but use beef stock if you are using beef/pork for the meatballs) and just a bit of salt. I'm not afraid to use salt in my cooking, but a whole tablespoon here has to be a mistake. The sauce turned out so good, I made it again and served it with roasted chicken.

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Brigit

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Home Town: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Reviewed: Oct. 1, 2009

I had a craving for a dish my mom made when I was young, meatballs with gravy and rice. I liked the meatball recipe but wanted brown gravy so skipped the sauce part of the recipe. I also used a whole onion (what can I say, I love onions!) and Italian bread crumbs. The meatballs were fabulous! I used a brown gravy packet and substituted half the water with the pan drippings and onions that fell off. Delicious! Everyone loved them and it was my first time making meatballs. :)

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Reviewed: May 16, 2009

Great meatballs. Didn't use any salt at all- used salt substitute. The sauce recipe looked wierd, and I didn't have any sour cream, so I just made a roux with flour from the oven pan drippings, and added some chicken stock. Kids loved them.

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Nancy Ritz

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Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2009

I had never made Swedish Meatballs before but my husband told me how much he likes them. I made this recipe and "Amazing" they are. Easy to make, absolutely delicious. I'll be making this recipe for my family regularly. Thanks!

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Diane B

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Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2008

The meatballs were very good. I used my own sauce which is not Swedish at all. Thin a can of cream of mushroom soup with your favorite barbecue sauce until it is the right consistency. No one can ever guess what ingredients are in the sauce. Thanks for the meatball recipe. I may even try it with marinara sauce.

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Margaret

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2008

These were really good and got good reviews from friends as well!

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linsybyster

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Reviewed: Nov. 15, 2008

I only used the meatball recipe. It was very good meatballs, expecially with the ground pork! My family enjoyed it

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NebraskaCook

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Reviewed: Nov. 10, 2008

The sauce was VERY BAD! My Meatballs are great,so i just wanted to try and make the sauce,never again will i use flour and water i followed every step so i really dont think i messed up, i love sour cream so i thought this would be perfect.I really want to start learning how to make really great sauces.This is definitely not one.

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A8C

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Reviewed: Aug. 20, 2008

The sauce for these meatballs was awful, and came out something akin to salty flour water. I would reccommend using beef broth or cream of mushroom soup instead of the flour and water combo. You could definitely taste the flour.

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Reviewed: Jun. 17, 2008

The meatballs were delicious and I will be making them again and again. The sauce on the other hand, was horrible.

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Karamelle25

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Reviewed: May 22, 2008

Theses meat ball were great. I did not make the sauce because I was preparing finger food. All I added was a bit of garlic and grated some nutmeg. Thanks for the great recipe.

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Cheryl Carlson

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Reviewed: May 15, 2008

This is my favourite recipe for swedish meatballs - I use less salt in the sauce but other than that they are perfect, and so easy! I sometimes use seasones pork sausages squeezed out of the wrappers because the generic ground pork from the grocery store always tastes too bland to me (in general, not in this recipe).

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Queen Llemon

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Reviewed: May 8, 2008

This sauce was RIDICULOUSLY salty!!! I had to throw the whole first batch out. Thank goodness I was able to salvage the meatballs! I cooked it the second time with only a teaspoon of salt and it was actually quite good!

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Jenn S.

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Reviewed: Mar. 13, 2008

DO NOT USE THIS SAUCE!!!! Whomever loved this recipe, I'm willing to bet they have a psychological addiction to salt. The meatballs were okay, but still contained WAY too much salt. I should have known, when I was adding the amount of salt they told me to add, a red flag went up and I thought... this is more salt than I have ever added to any recipe of this amount of meat and/or sauce ingredients. Don't ask me how I knew, it was just WRONG. I have not re-tried this recipe without the salt, but I'm suggesting that if you really want to use this recipe, you may try using 1/4 the pepper, 1/4 the salt in both the sauce and the meatballs and then, MAYBE it will be okay. I would not reccomend this recipe.

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Reviewed: Mar. 5, 2008

We used vegetarian meatballs and only made the sauce. I added garlic and mushrooms and it was a big hit with everyone forgot to add we left out the salt all together

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Reviewed: Jan. 14, 2008

SAUCE REVIEW. This review is for the sauce only. I live in Sweden and needed a fast sauce to make with the meatballs that I had just made. I thought that I had a sauce pre-made, only to find out that I was wrong. Sheesh.... Anyway, I made this sauce, which looked strange to me, but, I was desperate. Well, I ended up making mashed potatoes and having the meatballs with slices of cucumber instead. A Swedish meat sauce should be brown like gravy, not creamy and definetly not like this one. And just another comment, the IKEA sauce for the swedish meatballs is actually very close to the made from scratch sauce.

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Sooki

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Reviewed: Jan. 8, 2008

I loved the sauce. It is very simple to make and it tastes good. I went to Ikea and had their famous swedish meatballs, and I have to say I liked this sauce a lot more than theirs. I usually add a little bit of corn starch to make it a thicker gravy type sauce.

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timberlinx

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Reviewed: Dec. 10, 2007

this recipe was good. i also used the 2 cans cream of mushroom soup, 1/2 c milk and 1 c sour cream. tasty. i added salt to taste instead of adding the whole 1 tbsp! i served mine over egg noodles. good!!

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Reviewed: Nov. 5, 2007

I bought frozen meatballs,used the sauce from this recipe and served over egg noodles. The sauce really hit the spot. My kids loved this meal!

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Reviewed: Oct. 18, 2007

I have been looking for a good SM recipe, and this one was the best i have found since my mothers. i too, made a few adjustments: instead of water i used beef broth. i used more paprika and to the sauce i added garlic powder. i also added nutmeg to the meatballs. Thank you for posting this great recipe!

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