Do you get a Swedish flag on those in the states?
Absolutely. This is the store in Tempe, Arizona.
Homemade
I can’t believe you would just post a pic of your balls like that
This photo has so little colour it’s almost monochrome.
I’ve made much better, these ones don’t have much colour because I made them in bulk to freeze. It was the only picture I had of my balls tho
I meant no offence to your balls :) The whole photo is like that. Could just be your camera, or your lighting.
Their vegan meatballs are also excellent.
Their plant based meatballs are good too. I pan fry them then toss them into a slow cooker with some bachans barbecue sauce, green onion, and sesame seeds for parties and potlucks.
Bachans Japanese BBQ is so good. Getting expensive. But damn it’s delicious.
I need to make a trek to the giant blue box. Lingonberry Master Race!
Don’t @ me cranberry peasants.
IKEA breakfasts slap.
Didn’t know they had breakfast!
The nearest IKEA to me is about
5,0002500 miles away. This picture makes me feel all of them.Edit: I failed to search the actual mileage between my home and the nearest IKEA before posting.
Wat. Are you in the South Pole?
Nah. Hawai’i. But I didn’t search the correct mileage before I posted. It’s half that. (But feels like 5k when I think about that lingonberry sauce.)
You can buy Swedish meatballs at IEKA???
U been living under a rock or something? Fuck yes you can. They even have vegan (maybe vegetarian) ones too, and chicken Strips for kids and a few other things. Their restaurant is not bad, sometimes I’ll take the kids there to get something I could easily grab at Walmart/ target just to get some swedish meatballs.
Hey that’s a bit rude there :<
But yeah I’ve never seen meatballs at Ikea. Very cool. Thanks for sharing :P
Pretty sure the idea here is that it was outlandishly overreacting for humor.
So good! But I always think they might have just a little bit of horse in them. 🐎
Ikea is a meatball company that also sells furniture
VW is a sausage company masquerading as a car manufacturer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst
Anglais Ikea has marketed fecal-contaminated horse meatballs and chocolate pies. Bon appétit!
Made of or made for?
We in the US have gotten used to eating shit since January. Politics aside, I also still eat Chipotle.
They got the vegan option too. If you don’t want to think about the poor horse that gave his life for you, go eat vegan stuff. Often times vegan options are just a bridge. There are other ways to eating healthy nutritious foods.
The vegan alternative tastes terrible.
And the meatballs are a blend of beef and pork in most countries. In Muslim places it’s beef with chicken, in Sweden you sometimes get moose variants for special occasions.
Horse is not typically used for meatballs since the meat is too lean, you need fat as a binding agent and to prevent it from drying out.
The horse joke was a reference to the massive recall a decade ago, when they found horse meat in their balls and sausages.
Also, as a non vegan, I find the veg balls to be as good as their meat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As long as one doesn’t expect it to taste anything like meat…
I disagree - I thought the vegan ones were fine! Cheapest meal out I’d had in a long time. They also had a lots of beds in their restaurant, so I could relax and let my food go down on-site.
With some jam on the side
Then you need to make proper Swedish meatballs. IKEA’s stuff doesn’t compare.
Do you have an authentic recipe? It’s always hard on the web to find out which “true 100% reals straight from grandma” recipes are the right ones.
I improved the taste of my version a lot by making my own Piffi Allkrydda mixture fur the sauce. Its a spice mixture that goes really well with the taste of the berries!
Niklas Ekstedt’s recipe is authentic, Swedish, and tasty AF. If you can’t find venison, beef will do.
EDIT: I imagine this is one of those things where there are 1,000’s of different “proper” recipes. I shared this one as the guy who wrote it is Swedish, so I thought there must be some authenticity there, and I’ve made it, so can testify that it’s good. Not saying it’s the best or the most authentic, so slightly confused by the commenters saying it’s somehow wrong?
I’ve never done mine with juniper berries though. I think you can skip that.
Juniper berries?
Mate I never touched her berries
Needs more chopped parsley. Like waaay more parsley. And a tablespoon of mustard
Proper Swedish meatballs are easy to make. Wtf is this fancy stuff? Nah man… Source: I’m Swedish.
Ikr where’s the frozen meatballs and powder mashed potatoes?!
Also needs more ketchup.
Only needs minced meat, bread crumbs, eggs, onion and some spices. Source: am Finnish, we do meatballs too.
Well that just sounds like normal meatballs. What makes Swedish meatballs distinct?
They are the same.
Beeing Swedish I can confirm that a recipe by Ekstedt’s is not only authentic but probably really really good as well. He’s gotten a few Michelin stars over the years.
Well you took a treasured national meal and linked a recipe more advanced and different than the basic one most Swedes eat/do at home and said this is what meatballs is. That’s set up for comments 😄