Did We Find The BEST Meatballs In Sweden?
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As a Swede I can tell you that judging meatballs at different restaurants is like judging the best pub in the UK or finding the best Spaghetti Bolognese in Italy.
Ordering meatballs in a restaurant in Sweden in not normal. Most of them don't have that except for on the child menu.
@@danhunters8226 You have clearly never been to Sweden.
@@danhunters8226 plenty of good reastaurants got it, what u talking about?
Have a place close to the office at Hötorget making amazing meatballs abit expensive for lunch at 190kr but realy good
@@johnnyll91no good spots in Stockholm have the best meatballs... you have to go to small road-diners with real made food with love.
@@laves820 I've recently tried the meatballs at this place and it really is the best plate of meatballs I've ever had. 10/10!
You don't leave the pickled cucumber out of it. The acidity and crunch is everything.
Was about to say the same. You're missing out mate :)
Hell nah
that's why his friend gave it 11/10
is probably the first time I've seen a CZcamsr eating Swedish meatballs the right way. then we have those who try to make their own, wrong spices, no real cream sauce. forget the lingonberry jam and the gherkins. and no mash. and thank you for liking our Swedish meatballs.
Yeah that combination is what makes them so tasty.
I want Potatoes with mina KöttBullar....
Inge fel på Mos men...
Kinkig Svensk..🤘☮
@@PallesWorld6309 That works to.
Same here prefer potatoes over mash, And a lot of cream sauce or brown sauce. then again i dont even like lingonberry jam @@PallesWorld6309
I have always had them made with färsk potatis rarely mash. You want the full kit and kaboodle. Have this dish around May when the new potatoes are available. Next level. Just boil them and peel them at the table with your knife. Swedish meatballs truly are a swedish experience.
There is something heartwarming about seeing foreigners enjoying local food. I am a Swede and I love seeing this. I am sure it’s the same for locals in any country. You make it even better with your reviewing style, it’s quite informative and catching. Well done!
"A hug on a plate" - that's exactly what Swedish meatballs are. Yes, I've eaten them since childhood, but few dishes are as comforting as this one.
THANK YOU for showing how to eat Swedish meatballs the proper way! Pelikan is amazing but dont forget everyones grandma in Sweden makes the best meatballs tho! Hehe
Except MY grandmother made the best meatballs and the best gravy in Sweden. It's just a scientific fact >:)
While I grew up with Swedish food, the best food was made by my finish grandma.
She could make something as simple as boiled carrots in to an amazing experience haha.
Nah, my grandma made the best
This is not true; old swedish women can't cook for shit.
Swedish Husmanskost is so underestimated….
I almost always prefer a plate of swedish meatballs over fancy food
Husmankost over the world is usually the best, its a reason why the recipes survives for 100s or years.
@@tevlar 100% agree
Oh yes ... and there is a lot to cover.
Pölsa
Isterband med dillstuvad potatis
@@fredosinsemilla3896 omg isterband is so amazing 🤤
Thank you for not going to the tourist traps for meatballs, sure they are not bad but you picked a really nice authentic swedish restaurant!
BRILLIANT ...Review, the visual content and commentary was so "binded and bended" together just perfectly ..I jest 😂😂😂.. so enjoyed this one guys ...THANK YOU
Thank god you went to THE restaurant, in my old neighbourhood, that serve traditional Swedish food with service thats impeccable. Happy you enjoyed it - I miss it alot....
Back in ye olden days, wasn't this just the spot where all young bachelor workers went to because they had neither the time or know-how how to cook themselves? Or was that some other spot?
What is the name of the restaurant ?
@@mikaelsvensson9235 Pelikan
Nice to see such enjoyment! Hope your overall stay was a good experience!
As a Swede it makes me proud to see how much you enjoyed that!!
First video i seen. And is from my homeland and also my favorite food!
Offcourse i will follow this channel. Cause this review was so good!
Thumbs up from me!!
Home made meatballs with family recipes - you can find so many versions of this all over the country and all are superb, I use my grandmas meatballs and gravy recipe and brought it to the resturants I worked in (educated chef).
Great review!♥
Seeing you enjoy it awakens a happy swede inside me. Im so proud of our country and its heritage
Brilliant channel end of the food looked amazing.
Would be nice if you included the name of the place in the description. :) Welcome to Sweden! Awesome stuff!
The word you were looking for was "tart" from the lingonberry that ties everything up so well...
matt i was waiting for you to eventually describe the masg as buttery and you delivered lol, thse meatballs looked amazing i wish to god i could make as good as that because i know exactly what you are saying about texture and all binding they looked wonderful 10/10 for me son woohoo heaven must of burst in your mouth
Usually it's meat broth in the sauce. It can depend however, as people tend to put their own touch to it.
Regarding the meatballs, I've heard Swedish top chefs say that it's supposed to be "minced" rather than mashed together. I never understood this and was happy to see the texture of these meatballs looking like the ones I make at home. Many also tend to put onion and garlic into the mix to put some life into the meatballs (or the hamburger-looking version, called "pannbiff").
I'd say it's hard to decide where the best meatballs are served, in three finer restaurants like this you can get three similar looking plates with a different taste to both meatballs and sauce.
Nice that you enjoyed tradtitional Swedish Food. Some dishes are really deliicious and underrarted. But only some 😂😂
A fantastic dish, looks delicious!
Hah! That is one of my favorite beer bars in Stockholm! Never ordered any food there, but perhaps a good idea to do it next time...
Ours at home are the best ever!! We use moose meat from local sources. Amazing with Lingon jam I hand picked and prepared on my stove at the cabin. Hands down the best
Amazing content as always. A perfect plate of comfort food
About the sauce. The "base" is almost always the "juices" left from the pan after you cook the meatballs. Thats were all the flavours comes from. Its quite simple, mix the all the nice juices from the pan with cream, add some sort of bouillon, salt, black pepper and garlic pepper. I use beef bouillon cubes but you can use chicken aswell. Then you just get the cream to a light boil and keep it there for a couple of minutes while stirring. If needed, add some sort of a binder. You cant it thick, but not to thick.
About the mashed potatoes, my father taught me that the secret to good mashed potatoes is nutmeg, sugar, lots of butter and cream instead of milk.
Personally I prefer my mash kinda "dry". Not for every dish but for meatballs definitely. About 10-20g of butter per portion maybe? And maybe around 20ml of heavy cream. It holds up much better to the sauce, because otherwise it just turns to soup. Also not a fan of sugar in it, there's already enough sweetness in the jam and pickles. I haven't tried putting nutmeg in it but that sounds interesting. Nutmeg is definitely a traditional flavor. I just add salt and WHITE pepper. And for the love of God, use mealy potatoes. Using waxy potatoes for mash is an absolute crime.
The best meatballs is as always moms homemade from scratch =)
My grandpa made the best ones i've ever eaten
Or dads :P
@@peccogamble3578 my dad was a expert on freshfish and cooking food in camping but pretty worthless in kitchen =)
Or from the grand parents.
my grandma had the best meatballs. I've tried i've come close but not as exceptional as hers.
Have you tried Tunnbrödrulle? A classic very tasty Swedish street food.
cream, ox stock, blackberry jam, soysauce, salt, pepper, butter, some may use maderia wine for extra punch, but yeah gotta love the creamsauce with meat ballzzzzz
I think you ment Blackcurrant jelly(svartvinbärsgele) and not blackberry jam(björnbärssylt) ?
Refreshing due to other tourist vloggers just chosen to take a stop at IKEA to eat meatballs
Awesome place and the meatballs are fantastic
That's proper lager beer food (and maybe an Akvavit). Spent too many hours and SEK in this place and their bar back in the day.
You should try their Grosshandlarmeny (Wholesale Dealer Menue) with all the bevvies straight from the 40's.
They make the gravy from the stuff left in the pan after frying the meatballs.
As you said, basic stuff. 😁
So nice you dig the old school köttbullar with lingon pickeld cucumer and mashed potato or potato puré. The meatballs back in the day was better the smaller it was since that was more work to roll and fry them all, it was considerd lazy to make them to big. Prefellably have two in one bite. The meet is imortant to work hard for a long time to get the right texture
not to work meat hard...taths the idea
Looks top tier!
Just curious… where’s Terry and Callum these days?
As you may know Callum is a father now so hes rightly focusing on that
They said Terry was unfortunately poorly so has been replaced and Calum had a child so has also been replaced
As a swede, I get disguisted by IKEA meatballs, genuine ones are so much better it's like something different entirely.
Its hillarious all the youtubers going to IKEA saying its so good.
Its like 2/10 on meatball scale.
@@tevlar I would say Mamma Scan is better then IKEA meatballs. A 10 year old could make better meatballs then IKEA.
@@pensiobengt
I actualy like mamma scans for a köttbulle macka
Fattar inte folk i Sverige som gillar scand och Ikea. Absurt dåliga 🤣
I mean they have their place especially as a cheap belly filler but I will agree that they are far from the best.
I'm Swedish and grew up and still living in Stockholm, but I have never tried this restaurant. What the heck is wrong with me, I need to go to Pelikan asap.
i have over 30 years of experience of dining at Resturang Pelikan at Blekingegatan i Stovkholm, and i can confirm that they are good when they are good but they change kitchen staff all the time and sometimes it is not great. I would rate them at 5/5 at their best but only 3/5 the other times,but most of the time they are great....Same menue for 30 years for a reson and then they bring in seasson spical dishes aswell that come and go.
Go Hudiksvall and visit Rout 84 on road 84 to Ljusdal. And you find a treat more then you can imagin'
The sauce is probably if traditional, made with the fond of the meatballs at the bottom of the pan it was fried in along with cream and salt and pepper to taste. I have never seen a cream sauce for swedish meatballs made with a stock personally. But my wife is swedish and my mother in law's meatball recipe. Just next level. Honestly the sauce if done correct is definitely the star of the show.
The ingredient you're looking for is most likely Swedish "ansjovis" and/or "ansjovisspad". It's a common ingredient which unfortunately a lot of restaurants often add too much of and then it tastes gingerbread. But a small amount will improve the dish for sure
Cheers Now we are talking......enjoy
Great place, though it is not the authentic size of our meatballs. They should be about a third in size to be the real deal. /Swede
The smaller they are the drier they will get, that's why they always are big in good restaurants.
Happy you visit some good places like Brunos and this ☺ Get sad when turist test stuff and go to places where the quality are not close to what it should be!
And now I watched you tossers at Tösses as well 😂 (sorry) Solid place! Think a lot of people in Sweden don´t know tosser but could see you where bursting, you did a great job keeping it together 💪😆 At least it was not a salad bar so you had to toss that as well! Would have been to hard to swallow!!
Thanks❤
Its not chicken stock if they made it the traditional way they use the broth from the pan they made the meatballs in gives it a really deep flavour.
No broth either. Just the fond after frying the meatballs plus cream.
Ansjovis broth
?
Meatballs is probably the dish that is hardest for a restaurant to beat a good, old homemade version. I've tried them at plenty of restaurants and whilst they're awesome of course, they never scratch the same itch a good homemade bunch :)
My old spot. All their food is incredible.
The best meatballs are made at homes. And swedish meatballs are most often not so big.
Much love from Sweden 🇸🇪👋🏻
they look nice...but being from the north of sweden i much more prefear reindeer meatballs, so much more flavor.
some swedes usually have ''svart vinbärs gelé'' in their sauce to the meatballs. wich is like black currant jelly.
watched this while eating my own home made swedish meatballs. Gotta try this place tho. Never been there!
Any beers 🍻
been there a few times... excellent restaurant.
Happy that you liked it
There's one place that used to (not sure they're still around) have the best meatballs in Sweden and that's Köttbulle-Cafét in Göteborg. Nothing will ever come close.
Gotta love Swedish friendliness
If i only could eat only one dish for the rest of my life, it would be meatballs.
Also, supposedly there is an authentic Scandinavian restaurant in London that serves meatballs. Saw a video about it a while back. Never tried it myself so i can't really recommend it, but maybe worth a try if you don't wanna go over here for them if you got the cravings.
Ps. The sauce is made in the same frying pan after you've fried your meatballs. Might be the meatball juices you tasted.
As a swede i can tell you,that there is a million types of swedish meatballs that is as delicious as those.For me,its the ones that grandmother rolls the day before christmas.Very basic,very small, 50/50 pork and beef,salt,freshly ground black pepper,and a touch of parsley.I guess im bious,since its an emotional thing.When mormor is gone its not gonna taste the same,whoever tries to replicate them.❤
Great video though nothing gonna beat the meat at yesterday's smokehouse and the character that ran it, go back there again he'll probably have different meats cooking today, good job gents
Was banging Chris, I thought to myself last night watching the smoke house "I'm getting my ass over there this summer because of that" But after tonight's meatball vid, I'm literally gonna book 4-5 days in May by the weekend"
Great you didn't diss the lingo berries, such an important part of Swedish cousin.
Great
I truely love PELIKAN... For my birthday i go there and get the pork with mustard and "rotmos".
Kroppkakor! Get back there and eat kroppkakor. Delicious stuff.
What was the cost?
Pelikan is pone of the legendary beer halls
I was gonna comment 90g if that what he said about the size of meatballs, that thats to big for swedish meatballs.
We usualy make then smaller, however they didnt look like 90g and looked great.
Basicly whats its ment to be not the Ikea version.
Where in Stockholm was this?❤
Södermalm,blekingegatan 40 typ mellan medborgarplatsen och skanstull
@@90charmedndangerous tack
restaurants generally make them a bigger size (presumably to minimize prep time as well as making the dish plate better).
As a Sweden, you have my like
Hahaha they're eating "ordinary school lunch food" for us in Sweden and rating it 10 out of 10
You must take the pickled cucumber at the same time!!! 😊
I usually prefer my own homemade meatballs but you made me want to go there and try them. Thankfully I live in the same city so it shouldn't be that hard.
I actually think "kioskköttbullar" often tastes better than resturant meatballs, the mashed potatoes aswell. You just have to find a good place.
Best is homemade though.
Yeah. For one thing restaurants usually refuse to lightly char the meatballs, which when it comes to meatballs is part of the flavour for me. Also i loathe cucumber and pickled food in general. The main trouble with kioskköttbullar is that they usually use really cheap lingonsylt instead of actual rårörda lingon, which is a real minus in my book.
@@anarchclown
Yea resturant meatballs are a bit TO soft for me. As you say you need a little bit of char. Alot of places uses to much breadcrums which makes them very soft.
I hardly use any, or any at all.
I also prefer a litle bit thicker gravy.
Im not a big fan of lingonberry.
I bet most of the kiosks just use bottled lingonberries like Felix.
Yes they probably do. Which is why I don't eat meatballs at kiosks.@@tevlar
I would have recommended Ekstedt Reataurant for meatballs in Stockholm
As a Stockholmer I can confirm that u guys when to the right place.
Usually people are laughing when speaking about meatballs and that Sweden is known for these even if the dish originally is not Swedish but you guys are not laughing but look pretty serious so, it means there's something and If the particular recipe you are tasting now is pure Swedish, we probably have something to be proud of.. I myself grew up with these and still after 50 years I eat them once a week! 👍
Of course the dish is Swedish. The people who claim it's not Swedish are the people who will do anything to rob us of our cultural heritage and pride, saying that "this is not a thing, this isn't yours" because some Turk once put together a ball of minced meat 2,000 years ago.
By the same logic you can't say Beef Bourguignon is French because some Neanderthal might've made a beef stew 300,000 years ago.
Almost every country and culture there is have a variant of a meatball, the swedish meatballs is still swedish.
The dish is def swedish. There are several different variants of meatballs depending on the country, thats why its called SWEDISH meatballs. Also the sides is what seperates it also.
You boys graft keep up the brilliant content
Go to Bullen 2 Krögare. Its the best in Sweden!
I have mixed emotions about this video, it`s nice that they enjoy the food but having Pepsi with the meatballs is nothing short from being a blasphemy.
Imho only milk will do with this dish.
Milk is for babies.
Agree totally!
Omg, stop being an Italian and let people enjoy their food however they like
milk is the last thing I would drink with this dish lol. Milk is for cookies and kanelbullar. Pepsi is just fine, I don’t know what the original commenter is talking about. If you want to be real cultural and fancy you could get lingondricka, if you don’t want that but don’t want to offend the gatekeepers you can just get sparkling water. However, there is nothing wrong with having Pepsi or any other soda with this. I say as a Swede myself.
I would prefer milk or lingonberry “juice” to this dish. And meatball recipes are as many as there are Swedes. I for example like the meatier. But the best part or meatballs is when you are frying them, the small parts that falls off, those are the best parts. It’s like botturas best part of a lasagna.
"Sometimes you don´t fuck with shit.." ...Well thats a review!!😁 ..Cheers from Sweden!
Why on earth would you have a Pepsi with them?
Loved this but a beer 🍺 would have been better.🙋♀️🇸🇪🙏🐣🫶🤗
They might be good, but not as good as the small ones at Swedish Match in Gothenburg!
Meatballs should be small so you get the Maillard effect.
We who have a little grey in our hair takes our own meatball recipe seriously. I would say, not two are completely alike. Mine is a result of my grandmas recipe refined over a 40 years timespan and many hundreds of iterations. It is now, unfortunately, impossible to write down My Meatball recipe, it can only be done by my hand so I will take it with me to the grave - but not before teaching the core and philosophy of them to my sons, who in their turn hopefully will refine it even more. Swedish Meatballs are not so much Food Science as it is Food Philosophy. My No.1 Rule is: All must be done by hand if possible, from the lingon to the breadcrumbs. Only then do I know exactly what the result will be.
That's how you do it, a little bit of everything on the fork.
Obviously a matter of preference but I've never been a fan of that style of meatballs. IMO should have majority beef with a bit more coarseness than that.
Calf stock, black/white pepper, garlic, some ketchup and a splash of soy sauce.
Everything else on the platter looked great.
Edit: and definitely a bit smaller.
Well, to start with, you can be pretty sure you won’t find the best meatballs at Pelikan. You actually won’t find the best of anything at Pelikan…
What you call perfectly binded together, I would call overly processed. I prefer meat balls where you really feel the texture of the meat.
My guess its blackcurrant gel thats in the sause.
Lingon berries obviously
@@user-lv6rn9cf8m On the side, not in the sauce...
Now im hungry!
Pelikan is great! it's the place to go even for us "Stockholmians". Classic good food never goes wrong.
Love you mates
ive lived here in stockholm for 17 years and always bring my guests here. The Pelikan is known for having writers and authors and journalists etc. Every dish on their menu is the dogs. Nice review chasps
PEPSI to meatballs????? Thats the biggest nono 😮
imo..meatballs should be small & crunchy not as a tennis ball (far too many places insists doing this unfortunately... pure laziness)
Swedish couisine is one og the best in the world.
As an Englishman living in Sweden for some time now, my ex mother in laws homemade meatballs are lovely.
But how can I get these in Michigan? I'm dying over here!🤤😭
Been here before, they have good meatballs but homemade are significantly better in almost every respect. Especially as a full meal if you also made all the components at home. Large meatballs are only viable in a restaurant setting because they can make a ton of stock, but traditionally you are meant to make them small in order to get more surface area and create more browning for the roux and sauce.
I will say though that their skagen is extremely good, and so is their fläsklägg. Also it's not break your bank expensive, an envelope with a drink or two is less than 100 euro.
delicious!