Name: Swedish cranberry meatballs
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Makes 25
Cuisine: Scandinavian
Ingredients: 2 tbsp sunflower oil; 1 onion finely diced; ½ tsp ground mace; 500g minced beef; 100g dried cranberries; 1 egg yolk; cranberry or lingonberry sauce, to serve

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Swedish cranberry meatballs

Swedish cranberry meatballs

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Makes 25

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 15 mins

Plus chilling

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Make Scandinavian-style meatballs flecked with fruit and serve with a lingonberry dip

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 onion

finely diced
½ tsp ground mace
500g minced beef
100g dried cranberries
1 egg yolk
cranberry or lingonberry

sauce, to serve

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Nutrition: per meatball

kcal69
fat4g
saturates2g
carbs3g
sugars3g
fibre0g
protein4g
salt0g

low

Method

step 1

Heat half the oil in a saucepan. Add the onion and cook gently until soft, then add the mace and cook for 1 min more. Cool.
step 2

Put the mince into a bowl with the cooled onion, cranberries, egg yolk and plenty of seasoning. Mix well with your hands, then shape into walnut-sized balls. Chill for at least 10 mins or up to 2 days.
step 3

Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Pour the remaining oil into a baking tray and roll the meatballs in it to coat. Bake for 20 mins until cooked through. Serve hot with the berry sauce for dipping.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2013

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