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Hi there, I'm Paul from Oslo, Norway and today I'm going to cook Norwegian meatballs
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You've probably heard about Swedish meatballs, but these are Norwegian meatballs
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They're bigger and better. The typical serving is to serve them with hard-boiled potatoes
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boiled potatoes, mushy peas, delicious brown gravy and lingonberry jam. The name of this
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dish is chutkakker in brun sauce which translates to meat cakes in a brown gravy. In
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English it sounds a bit strange with meat cakes so for the sake of this video I'm
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going to call them for meat balls. Find a bowl and place the ground beef in it. Add salt
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potato flour and fresh ground pepper An important ingredient is the ground nutmeg Make sure you don skip it Add water gradually as you start working it all together
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into a smooth dough. You can do this with a food processor
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but I prefer using my hands. I dip a spoon in some water so that meat won't stick to it
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and start shaping the meatballs. You're not aiming for perfect golf balls
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You want them to be a little bit imperfect, just like all of us. Out of 400 grams of meat, I got seven meatballs. Heat up some butter
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in a frying pan on medium heat and start moving the meatballs gently into the pan
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Fry them for some minutes and flip them over now and then. When they're ready, they'll look something
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like this Take them out of the pan and let them rest Meanwhile we start making the brown gravy Use the same pan that you fry the meatballs in so you get some of that left over drippings in your gravy Add butter and let it melt
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Then add wheat flour and stir it well so there are no chunks
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And keep on stirring it so that it does not burn. It's important that the butter and the wheat flour gets a real nice and nutty brown color
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color. If not, you're going to have a white gravy instead of a brown gravy
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When it's ready, it looks something like this. I pre-made some store-bought broth. Add it slowly to the pan while stirring around
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Let it heat up and then pour it over into a pot. Add salt and pepper
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take the meatballs and put them into the gravy. Let them simmer for about 10 minutes while
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stirring around every now and then It time to make some mushy peas Have a small amount of broth in a pot and add the piece and some butter Let it boil for a few minutes and use a mixer
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to make the pea stew. Serve it all together with the dash of Lingenberry jam on
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the side. It's very important that you mix all components together so that when you make your bite you have a little everything on the fork
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Mmm very good. You can really feel the flavor of the nutmeg and the salty beef goes well
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together with the lingenberries. Perfect combo. All right that was chetkaikir in brun
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sauce meatballs in the brown gravy just like my mother used to make them. I hope you enjoyed
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this episode if you want to see more from Norway make sure to subscribe to my channel and hit the like button on the video
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so I'll see you soon again all right now
