These easy Swedish Meatballs are covered in a rich and creamy sauce that is ready in about 15 minutes. They’re perfect served over noodles, rice, or mashed potatoes.
Easy Swedish Meatballs Recipe
My favorite types of meals are ones that are made quickly, easily, and that my whole family loves. These Swedish meatballs perfectly fit that description. For another beefy favorite, try this Ground Beef Stroganoff.
Swedish meatballs are one of those ultimate comfort food type of dishes. Who doesn’t love meatballs, topped with a rich and creamy, gravy like sauce. They’re so delicious served over pasta noodles, rice, or mashed potatoes. Carbs + meat + creamy sauce = the best kind of comfort meals. Not in the mood for creamy meatballs, try these Enchilada Meatballs instead.
I used frozen meatballs, to help this meal come together extra quickly. You can of course make your own homemade meatballs, which will add about 30 minutes time to your dish. But with meatballs from the store, this dish comes together in about 15 minutes, which makes this dish a win in my book.
Easy Swedish Meatball Ingredients
- unsalted butter
- all purpose flour
- beef broth
- heavy cream
- Worcestershire sauce
- salt
- black pepper
- frozen meatballs
How to Make Swedish Meatballs
- Cook your rice, noodles, or mashed potatoes.
- Make a roux by melting butter in a large saute pan. Add in the flour and stir them together, let it cook for a couple minutes until it gets fragrant and starts to turn brown.
- Make the sauce. Add in the beef broth and heavy cream slowly, then stir the mixture until its smooth. Add in the Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. Let the sauce simmer on low heat while you heat up your meatballs.
- Add the meatballs. Heat up the meatballs for a few minutes in the microwave or air fryer (especially if they are frozen) until thawed and slightly warm. Add them to the sauce and continue to simmer for about 5 minutes. Serve over your noodles, or rice.
Easy Swedish Meatballs with Frozen Meatballs FAQs
Swedish meatballs are one type of meatball that is made with a light brown, creamy sauce, over the top. The sauce is a roux based (butter and flour mixture) gravy flavored with beef broth and cream.
If your sauce is not thickening that means you probably added too much liquid, or did not have enough roux base to thicken it. That shouldn’t be an issue with this recipe, but make sure to follow the ingredients as listed. You also need to make sure you cook the sauce long enough as it will thicken as it cooks.
If it’s still too thin after following the recipe you can try simmering the sauce longer to let some of the extra liquid evaporate, or make a slurry of 1 TBS cornstarch, 1 TBS cold water and stir it into the sauce. Let it come to a simmer after adding, and then it should thicken up as it cooks.
Swedish meatballs are a delicious, hearty, and comforting meal. The creamy gravy like sauce is perfect with the meatballs, and on top of your favorite carbs.
This recipe is perfect for busy moms like me, or anyone who wants a quick meal. Who wants to be in the kitchen slaving over a meal, when you can have something quick and delicious like these swedish meatballs ready in almost no time?!
More like this Easy Swedish Meatball Recipe:
- One Pot Chicken Alfredo Pasta
- Teriyaki Meatballs
- One Pot Sausage Pasta
- Sweet and Sour Meatballs
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Swedish Meatballs Recipe (Easy!)
Ingredients
- 1 12 oz package egg noodles (optional)
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup flour
- 2 cups beef broth
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 TBS Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp salt (to taste)
- 1/2 tsp black pepper (to taste)
- 20 frozen meatballs
Equipment
Instructions
- Boil water and cook egg noodles according to package directions. (Or heat up your rice, or mashed potatoes) When done cooking, drain and set aside till needed.
- Add butter to a large saute pan or skillet over medium high heat until it is melted.
- Whisk in the flour until it is clumpy, then continue to stir it, and allow it to cook until it starts to turn brown.
- Slowly pour in the beef broth and the heavy cream until smooth, whisking as you pour in the liquids.
- Stir in the Worcestershire, salt, and pepper.
- Lower the heat, and let your sauce continue to simmer.
- Microwave your meatballs according to package directions, or about 5 minutes (they don't need to fully heat up since they will simmer with the sauce)
- Add the meatballs to sauce and simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle with parsley, if desired.
- Serve sauce and meatballs however desired, and enjoy.
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These easy swedish meatballs were first posted on June 23, 2017. The photos and text of the post were updated for clarity on February 17, 2021.
These swedish meatballs were originally a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cooked Perfect® Meatballs for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
Colleen says
Simmering now, Delicious!! Easy!! Wow, Thanks!
Kathy Smith says
Do you have a favorite meatball recipe?
I like to make my meals from scratch, so I can control all ingredients.
Thank you
Aimee says
I love these meatballs https://lmld.org/italian-meatballs/ They work great for this
Patricia says
My question is do I need to use heavy cream or what can I use instead?
Aimee says
I haven’t tried it with anything else, but I think you could try half and half. I’m not sure if milk would be too thin.
Jennifer says
Sour cream works also
Ron says
Interesting. Where live here in Sweden, you most often see meatballs served with Brown Sauce (gravy) and mashed or boiled potatoes. I have have them in a cream sauce but never with noddles. Great idea, I’ll give this a try on some of my Swedish friends.
Aimee Berrett says
I’ll definitely have to try it on top of mashed potatoes next time. Sounds delicious!