Meat balls with granny's recipe

One of my favourite dishes of all time has been my grandmother's meat balls. This is a variation of my own. And I hate it when meat balls like this and those rubber balls they sell at shops fall under the same category (="meat balls"). It's like day and night, really. Just read ahead.

The amounts of everything except minced meet and eggs are just approximations so feel free to vary them as you wish! Let me just say that the secret is the garlic.

Serves four

The meat balls
600 grams of minced meat (pork-beef)
4 cloves of garlic
2 eggs
1 dl white flour
fresh parsley
black pepper
white pepper
salt
chilli powder
nutmeg

The sauce
4 tbsp of butter
6 tbsp of white flour
5 dl water
1 meat stock cube
soy sauce
white pepper
black pepper
salt
a bit of spicy cumin

With the meat balls, chop the garlic and mix with the rest of the stuff in a bowl. The amounts of spices can vary to your liking. Whenever it's possible, use fresh herbs like parsley in this recipe. If you want the meat balls to be a little bit more easier to shape, add more flour. Then take a small amount of meat paste and rub it in between your hands. Try to form a small cute nest for the meat ball in your hands so it will end up being like a ball instead of tube.

At this point, I'd start making the sauce. Take a large sauce pan or a kettle and drop the butter there and start browning it. Add the flour and be sure to whisk all the time. When the flour gets a bit of colour, add the water. Add the meat stock cube and just spice it up to your liking! I found the spicy cumin giving an elegant addition to the taste.

After preparing the meat balls, fry them in a fry pan with butter. Yamm, grease! This is a surefire way to get better meat balls than baking them in the oven. Just be sure to fry the meat balls on every side and long enough so the core will get cooked as well.

After one set of meat balls is done, take them off and put them into the sauce. Just continue till all the meat balls are done and swimming in the sauce.

Serve with (mashed!) potatoes!