Frikadeller (Danish Meatballs 2)

Unlike horse, the availability of mixed minced meat (pork and beef) is something I was used to growing up - and it's exactly what my old recipe for frikadeller calls for. I went ahead and made a small mountain of meatballs (as one of the pictures show), but normally I would make a smaller batch.

Ingredients:
- 1 kg (2 lb) minced beef/pork
- salt
- pepper
- ca. 4 dL (1.5 cups) flour
- 3 eggs
- 2 medium brown onions (finely diced)
- ca. 4 dL (1.5 cups) milk
- a little margarine/shortening/butter for frying

The minced meat was put in a large bowl together with flour, salt, pepper, eggs, and onion. While stirring with a ladle the milk was added in portions until the texture was right .. yes, that's of course a little hard to quantify, but the resulting mixture should be slightly more runny than most of my other meatball recipes.

The meat balls were placed one by one on a heated pan with a little margarine as they were shaped - the shaping process is attempted illustrated in the pictures: A portion of meat mixture was taken with a spoon and shaped into a ball by turning in between the hand and the spoon repeatedly until one is happy with the result. Don't overdo it - due to the texture, the balls will deform somewhat on the pan anyway. This is one of the instances when a non-stick pan and a wooden spatula are less useful than other tools.

Served with boiled potatoes and boiled cauliflower this became a meal very much in the Danish tradition. Leftover meatballs are good both on wholegrain dark rye bread and in pita sandwiches together with lettuce, cucumber, tomato..

NB: For an updated recipe, see here.