IKEA shares recipe for its famous meat balls to make at home (2024)

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What meat are IKEA meatballs made of? ›

That's why we've seasoned the beef and pork gently with only a few ingredients, every one of them enhancing the meat flavour even more. Easily prepared from frozen in minutes. In the oven, in the microwave or on the stove. Easily portioned.

It's lingonberry season and the small sour berries that thrive best in cold climates are ready to be picked. Swedes love eating the jam made from lingonberries with meatballs, mashed potatoes and cream sauce.

Meat. Take our famous meatballs home to prepare in your own kitchen. Serve Swedish style with mash, lingonberry jam and cream sauce.

STOCKHOLM - Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe's widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat. Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said.

If the meatballs are so delicious and so popular, why are they so inexpensive? Like many other things in business, selling inexpensive meatballs is a strategy for the company to turn more profit. To sell their products, they need to get people in the door. To do that, they entice people with cheap meatballs.

Czech authorities alerted the discount furniture maker that they had found horsemeat in a sample of meatballs, and Ikea subsequently pulled the product from stores in 14 countries.

Ikea's meatballs are made from minced meat (pork and beef), onions, garlic, breadcrumbs, and milk.

Iconic Swedish cream sauce: Melt 40g of butter in a pan. Whisk in 40g of plain flour and stir for 2 mins. Add 300ml of bouillon (or consommé) and continue to stir. Add 150ml double cream, 2 tsp of soy sauce and 1 tsp of (Dijon) mustard.

IKEA meatballs are quite popular in Scandinavia, known for their taste and affordability.

Frozen meatballs are available for you to take home! We know that there is great demand for our meatballs - what's a visit to IKEA without them? Although our collection point may not have a hot meatball offer available, we have made sure that there are frozen meatballs available for you to take home and cook yourself.

Why IKEA is suddenly 3D printing meatballs? ›

For years we've been developing products through 3D printing and working with food proteins to create healthy, sustainable meals. We decided to combine the two, to create 3D printed experimental plant-based meatballs to serve up to selected tech-savvy job candidates during lunch interviews.

The sauce for Swedish Meatballs is a creamy gravy that is made with butter, beef broth/stock, thickened with flour and made creamy with cream. But the most important flavour for the a really good creamy gravy is the pan drippings after searing the meatballs.

Swe-Dish Friday - Meatballs meal 8 pieces for £2.45 and 12 pieces for £2.95.

Are Ikea meatballs healthy? The meatballs are low in carbs but high in fat content, so while they're not healthy food, Ikea Swedish meatballs can be part of a healthy eating plan when enjoyed in moderation and as an occasional treat.

“Based on the results of our mapping, we can confirm that the contents of the meatballs follow the Ikea recipe and contain only beef and pork from animals raised in the U.S. and Canada,” Ikea North America spokeswoman Mona Astra Liss said in a statement.

"Our own checks have shown no traces of horse meat. Now we must of course look into this further," Ikea said in a statement posted on its website. All the meatballs come from the same supplier, Magnusson told The Associated Press, but she says shipments to the U.S. and other countries weren't affected.