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Meatballs in Cream Sauce

Prep Time: 20 min / Cook Time: 10 min / Total Time: 30 min

These Meatballs are easy to make, full of flavor, and swimming in the most amazing creamy gravy sauce - this recipe will break your heart!

Author and photographs: Olga

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Meatballs in Cream Sauce

Yield: 5 portions

Ingredients

Ingredients for Meatballs

450 gr minced meat
20 gr aged cheese (parmigiano reggiano)
½ onion (finely chopped)
30 ml stock or milk
1 yolk
½ tsp allspice
½ tsp black pepper
1 tsp salt
½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (omit if you don't have it)
½ tbsp vegetable oil

For the meatball sauce

1 tbsp butter
½ onion, chopped
1 tbsp flour
250 ml broth (or water)
120 ml cream
120 gr cream cheese
pepper and salt to taste

Instructions

For Meatballs

In a large bowl, combine the minced meat, broth, finely grated cheese and onion, 1 egg yolk, allspice, salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce.

With wet hands, roll into round meatballs. Fry the meatballs with vegetable oil over high heat until they are golden brown on the outside, INSIDE they should still be raw.

Transfer to a saucepan. Fill with sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes.

For the sauce:

In a frying pan 1 tbsp butter and fry the onion over low heat for 3-5 minutes, then add the flour and mix with the onion, keep heating for 1-2 minutes.

Add the broth and stir until there are no lumps, then add the cream and cream cheese, salt and pepper to taste, and bring the sauce to a boil. As soon as the sauce boils, put the meatballs in the sauce, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for about 5-7 minutes.