Ikea reveals kitchen secret: how to make Swedish meatballs
Now be honest: did you go to Ikea for the äpplarö folding table and the tärtsmet dish brush, or was that just an excuse to eat Swedish meatballs with cream sauce? Good news: Ikea has posted the recipe for its köttbullar online, and the instructions are easier than those for the average bookcase.
People who most enjoy strolling through Ikea on their free Saturday with a yellow bag over their shoulder have had to make do without it for a few weeks now, because Ikea has closed all its stores. The webshop is still operating, but it doesn’t have ice creams, hot dogs or meatballs on offer. And sometimes you can really crave those meatballs with cream sauce and a spoonful of jam on top.
Almost bankrupt
The cookbook De Wereld Thuis had more or less already cracked Ikea’s secret: Ronald Giphart and Mascha Lammes revealed how, with their homemade meatballs, they came as close as possible to the furniture retailer’s original. For their family, the köttbullar were the solution for surviving their holiday in Norway without going bankrupt, because everything there was outrageously expensive.
No little man with a question mark
This new recipe comes straight from the Swedish kitchen, including instructions as if you were assembling a chest of drawers. Although? No little man with a question mark, no flip-through booklets, no impossible list of supplies, because the instructions take up just one sheet of A4 paper! Step 1: take 500 grams of ground meat…
