Recipe Courtesy: Visit Sweden (Sweden's official website for tourism and travel information)
Swedish meatballs (Köttbullar) are eaten across Sweden in homes, cafés, and festivals. They are.
served with mashed potatoes, cream sauce, lingonberry jam, and pickled cucumbers.
They are deeply linked to Swedish family cooking and food culture.
This dishe is popularised globally through Swedish cuisine and hospitality (famously by IKEA),
making it an unofficial national dish of Sweden.
This is a plant-based version of the Swedish classic by Gustav Johansson
4 portions
Ingredients:
The meatballs
● 400 g vegan mince (that’s possible to shape into balls)
● 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
● 1 yellow onion
● 1.5 tbsp concentrated vegetable stock
● 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
● 1 tbsp Chinese mushroom soy
● ½ tbsp ground allspice
● Vegan butter to fry in (a lot)
● Salt and black pepper
Mashed potatoes
● 1 kg floury potatoes
● 2 dl oat cream
● 2–3 tbsp vegan butter
● A pinch of ground nutmeg
● Salt and white pepper to taste
Cream sauce
● 4 dl oat cream
● 1.5 tbsp vegetable stock
● ½ dl stirred lingonberries
● 1 tbsp dark Chinese mushroom soy sauce
● 1 tbsp dried thyme
● 5 dried juniper berries
● Salt and black pepper
Stirred lingonberries
● 3 dl fresh lingonberries
● 1–1.5 dl sugar
Pressed cucumber
● 1 large fresh cucumber
● A lot of salt
● 2 tbsp vinegar (12%)
● 1 dl water
● 3 tbsp sugar
● A pinch of white pepper
● A small handful of chopped parsley
Method:
1. First, peel the potatoes for the mash. Cut them into small pieces and boil them until soft.
2. Mix the lingon berries with the sugar and set aside.
3. Whisk together vinegar, water, sugar, and white pepper for the cucumber garnish. Cut the
cucumber into thin slices and salt them generously in a bowl. Then set the bowl aside.
4. Now for the vegan meatballs: finely chop an onion, mix it with the vegan mince and
season with allspice, mustard, soy sauce, vegetable broth, vegan cream and black pepper.
Mix the ingredients together well and then shape the meatballs.
5. Heat up a frying bot with plenty of vegan butter. Then add the meatballs and fry them
until they're firm and nicely browned.
6. Back to the mashed potatoes: Mash the potatoes and season with salt, nutmeg and white
pepper. Add vegan butter and stir until you get a good consistency.
7. Then press the salt water out of the cucumbers and add it to the vinegar mixture.
8. Finally, the sauce: add juniper berries, thyme, vegan cream, broth, soy sauce and some of
the sugared lingon berries to the pan with Köttbullar and simmer for a minute.
9. Serve everything together in a deep plate and enjoy the delicious vegan 'köttbullar'.
