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Swedish Meatballs (From a Swede!)

Submitted by: LindaT

Living In: San Jose, California, USA

These tiny Swedish meatballs use a combination of ground beef and ground pork to make a flavorful appetizer for holidays or dinner parties. Serve alongside vegetable sour cream or lingonberry sauce for an authentic Swedish meal.

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Strassburgare

Submitted by: LindaT

Living In: San Jose, California, USA

Tender and delicate Swedish butter cookies are made with a cookie press and your favorite decorative tip. Color the dough your desired shade of red or green if you like. Using potato flour helps eliminate toughness.

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Swedish Meatballs (Svenska Kottbullar)

Submitted by: Nom Nom Nom

Home Town: Los Angeles, California, USA

Swedish meatballs made with ground beef and pork are gently spiced, baked, and served with brown sour cream gravy in this old family favorite recipe for Christmastime.

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Swedish Waffle Cookies

Submitted by: LindaT

Living In: San Jose, California, USA

A creamy lemon-flavored liqueur filling is sandwiched between thin oval-shaped butter cookies for a sweet treat on any occasion. The recipe calls for a strongly flavored Swedish liqueur, but you can use amaretto if you like.

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Dana's Famous Swedish Meatballs

Submitted by: LaughingSong

Cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg flavor these famous Swedish meatballs.

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Old-Fashioned Swedish Glogg

Submitted by: Judy

An adventurous drink, glogg comes from an old word meaning burning ember, and you'll feel the heat when you light this Swedish mulled wine on fire and serve it hot for the holidays.

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Swedish Chanterelle Mushroom Pate

Submitted by: Anne-Marie Bullis

Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Living In: Håcksvik, Västra Götalands, Sweden

Golden chanterelle mushrooms and ground pork combine to create this deliciously rich pate.

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Swedish Apple Cake

Submitted by: Laura

In a delectably moist cake with Swedish heritage, fresh, chopped apples and walnuts are spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg under a brown sugar topping.

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Swedish Toscas (Swedish Almond Tarts)

Submitted by: NAPOLIMOM

Home Town: Seattle, Washington, USA

Living In: Coronado, California, USA

Buttery little tarts made in a muffin tin are filled with a brown sugar-almond mixture enhanced by a touch of cream.

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Swedish Christmas Glogg

Submitted by: MYLEEN

Home Town: Houston, Texas, USA

Living In: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Scandinavians warm chilly nights around Christmastime and after skiing with steaming glasses or cups of glogg, a spiced, red wine-based hot punch seasoned with cinnamon sticks and whole cloves.

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Traditional Swedish Pepparkakor

Submitted by: Eal

Paper-thin and spicy, these cookies are a beloved Swedish Christmas tradition. Thoroughly chilling the dough before rolling it out, and dusting cookie cutters with flour will make the cut-out process easier.

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Swedish Chocolate Balls (or Coconut Balls)

Submitted by: AngelicaS

A long-time favorite in Sweden, and a treat all Swedish children learn to make as one of their first cooking projects, these no-bake chocolate morsels combine rolled oats with sugar, cocoa, butter or margarine, coffee and melted chocolate. Rolled in coconut flakes, they're ready to pop in your mouth.

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Swedish Cream with Summer Berries

Submitted by: HOONDE

Sweetened sour cream flavored with orange liqueur is blended with warm, heavy cream to make a heavenly potion to pair with various fresh summer berries.

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Swedish Klimp

Submitted by: Anne-Marie Bullis

Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Living In: Håcksvik, Västra Götalands, Sweden

A simple comfort food, klimp are small dumplings added to a soup or stew. This recipe comes from Aunt Berta in Northern Sweden who makes them every time we visit her.

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Semlor (Semla)

Submitted by: ZONIGUANA

Home Town: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany

Living In: Barrington, New Hampshire, USA

These Swedish marzipan and whipped cream filled cardamom buns are traditionally served on Fat Tuesday. Nowadays they are happily eaten as often as they can be found. We love that these are not too sweet, and are just big enough.

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Jansson's Temptation (Janssons Frestelse)

Submitted by: WOLSELEY

Home Town: Enslev, Midtjylland, Denmark

Living In: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Who Jansson is, we may never know, but this meal is an absolute must on a cold and frigid evening. The anchovies may seem an odd ingredient in what is basically potatoes au gratin, but when they combine with cream and onions, they'll tempt anyone!

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Swedish Glogg

Submitted by: Gwynne

This is an authentic Swedish spiced wine. The recipe is from Great-Aunt Freda, brought from Sweden in the early 1900's.

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Whole Yellow Pea Soup

Submitted by: Lori

This Swedish yellow pea soup is flavored with smoked ham.

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Swedish Hard Tack

Submitted by: twistedsister

These slightly sweet, biscuit-like crackers are easy to make, and are great with butter, cheese, or jam.

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Bread Machine Swedish Coffee Bread

Submitted by: Mama Stace

Home Town: Orlando, Florida, USA

Living In: Melbourne, Florida, USA

This sweet, cardamom flavored braid is sprinkled with pearl sugar just before baking. My family is Swedish, and ever year we make this recipe just in time for Christmas. We always enjoy it especially on Christmas morning.