Frikadeller Meat Patties with Sauce. A Delicious popular recipe originating from Denmark with tender ground meat patties and a tasty creamy sauce. Easy, homemade comfort food dinner recipe
Frikadeller originates from Denmark, where they make these delicious meat patties, out of ground meats. You would normally have them accompanied with a sauce, and in this recipe, we have frikadeller, sauce, and pasta!
Our friend, Donna has shared her recipe, and here's what she says about it; "This recipe was given to me many years ago by an elderly Danish lady and I've modified it to our liking. Hope you like it."
If you enjoy cooking with ground meat, why not try our Poor Man's Stew. It's all made from scratch and absolutely full of flavor! Really easy recipe too!
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Recipe from Donna Smith
Prep time
15 minutes & 30 minutes chill time
Cook time
10 - 15 minutes
Serving size
4 persons
Ingredients
For the frikadeller (meat patties)
½ lb or 225 g ground pork
½ lb or 225 g ground beef
½ cup or 70 g grated onion
3 Tablespoons flour
1 ½ cups or 350 ml half-and-half milk
1 egg, well beaten
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
⅓ cup or 75 g butter
For the Sauce
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 tablespoon unbleached all-purpose flour
1 ½ cups or 350 ml low-sodium chicken broth
1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
½ cup or 120 ml heavy cream
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Salt and ground black pepper
Instructions
For the Patties
1. Combine pork and beef in stand mixer bowl, add onion. Using paddle attachment, stir in flour and beat thoroughly.
Stir in milk 2 tablespoons at a time, keeping mixer at stir speed to aerate mixture.
You can do this by hand but it will take a little longer.
2. Combine egg, salt and pepper together and add to meat mixture. Speed 2 until fluffy.
Pour into smaller container and refrigerate for 30 minutes to firm up.
3. Melt butter in large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Using a spoon, drop meat mixture directly into skillet.
Do not crowd. Fry patties for 3 minutes per side. Keep warm while making sauce.
For the Sauce
1. Discard oil in pan and wipe clean with paper towel. Return pan to medium-high heat and add butter.
2. When foaming subsides, add flour and cook, whisking constantly, until flour is light brown, 1 to 2 minutes.
3. Slowly whisk in broth. Add brown sugar and bring to simmer.
4. Reduce heat to medium and cook until sauce is reduced to about 1 cup, about 5 minutes. Stir in cream and return to simmer.
Add patties to sauce and simmer, turning occasionally, until heated through, about 5 minutes. Stir in lemon juice, season with salt and pepper, and serve over egg noodles.
We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our recipe. Did you make any changes or add some other ingredients? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!
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Frikadeller Meat Patties with Sauce
A delicious popular recipe originating from Denmark with tender ground meat patties and a tasty creamy sauce. Easy, homemade comfort food dinner recipe
Ingredients
For the frikadeller (meat patties)
- ½ lb or 225 g ground pork
- ½ lb or 225 g ground beef
- ½ cup or 70 g grated onion
- 3 Tablespoons flour
- 1 ½ cups or 350 ml half-and-half milk
- 1 egg, well beaten
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- ⅓ cup or 75 g butter
For the Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups or 350 ml low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
- ½ cup or 120 ml heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- Salt and ground black pepper
Instructions
For the Patties
- Combine pork and beef in stand mixer bowl, add onion. Using paddle attachment, stir in flour and beat thoroughly. Stir in milk 2 tablespoons at a time, keeping mixer at stir speed to aerate mixture. You can do this by hand but it will take a little longer.
- Combine egg, salt and pepper together and add to meat mixture. Speed 2 until fluffy. Pour into smaller container and refrigerate for 30 minutes to firm up.
- Melt butter in large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Using a spoon, drop meat mixture directly into skillet. Do not crowd. Fry patties for 3 minutes per side. Keep warm while making sauce.
For the Sauce:
- Discard oil in pan and wipe clean with paper towel. Return pan to medium-high heat and add butter.
- When foaming subsides, add flour and cook, whisking constantly, until flour is light brown, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Slowly whisk in broth. Add brown sugar and bring to simmer.
- Reduce heat to medium and cook until sauce is reduced to about 1 cup, about 5 minutes. Stir in cream and return to simmer.
- Add patties to sauce and simmer, turning occasionally, until heated through, about 5 minutes. Stir in lemon juice, season with salt and pepper, and serve over egg noodles.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 4Amount Per Serving: Calories: 774Total Fat: 62gSaturated Fat: 33gTrans Fat: 2gUnsaturated Fat: 24gCholesterol: 263mgSodium: 996mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 1gSugar: 8gProtein: 38g
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Nats
says:This looks delicious!! Do you think it will work with only ground beef?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Nats, thanks! Yes, it will work just with beef. I’ve done that and it is absolutely fine. :)
Gayle Miller
says:What does 1/2 and 1/2 milk mean ?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Gayle, “Half and half” is a mixture of half heavy cream and half whole milk. If you can’t get it where you live (it is usually only common in the US and Canada), you can substitute half and half by mixing half whole milk and half heavy cream. Hope that helps!!
DJ in Baltimore
says:Made this over the weekend. Doubled the meat recipe and froze half of the patties. Having them again tonight with a second bbatch of the sauce.
lovefoodies
says:Hi! I’m glad you enjoy the recipe. It is one of my favorites!! I haven’t frozen them before, but that’s a great idea for me next time I make them!
Thanks very much for your feedback!
Jenny.U
says:Looks like a true comfort food!
Michelle De La Cerda-Nash
says:I need to try this, it looks so gooooooodddddd
Dan from Platter Talk
says:I would love to try this one; it’s refreshing to see something so unique for a change!
lovefoodies
says:Thanks Dan! I’m glad you like it!
Jules
says:I hit the red + and then print. It printed 6 pages, 5 of ads what a
waste of ink. Did not give me an option to preview, or I could have
deleted the other wasted pages.. Why not just put a print button & preview option, it’s not hard.
lovefoodies
says:Hi Jules,
After hitting the red + button, there are several options for printing. If you are looking to print selected parts, you need to select the Print Friendly option and not just print. The PF option allows you to select areas to delete by hovering over those areas and then selecting delete. You should have a pop up screen for print preview no matter which programme you select, which is part of your printer software.
I hope this helps.
DDW
says:It looks like a nice recipe and I did manage to get it in spite of all of your efforts to prevent that…
lovefoodies
says:Thanks DDW, I’m not entirely sure what you are referring to, regarding not being able to ‘get’ the recipe, if you mean for printing, emailing or converting to a PDF, there are 3 different ways, first, by right clicking anywhere on the page then selecting ‘print’, second, far left of the page is a vertical column of icons which move down the page with you, select the Red Plus icon then select Print or Print friendly, and third, just above the ingredients, there is another share icon, which works the same as the red plus icon I just described. I think having 3 options, and in some cases 5 on some of the recipes is more than enough for people to print what they need to.
Should you experience any difficulties in getting any future recipes, please just drop me an email and I’ll be more than happy to guide you!
Sorry you had problems trying to work out how to print.
Al-Tariq Nekhia Taylor
says:Currently preparing…
lovefoodies
says:oh boy, you will love this! I’ve made it so many times, it really is so good, I warn you it is very filling so don’t put too much on your plate! Please enjoy :)
Jacinda Jones
says:going to make this asap!! looks amazing!
lovefoodies
says:That’s good to hear Jacinda! I’ve also made Donna’s recipe many times now and oh gosh! I like to add sliced mushrooms and white wine in the sauce too….yummo! Please enjoy :)
Britt
says:Making this for dinner tonight!! already had a quick taste of the patties and they are delicious!! can’t wait till dinner!!! Thanks for sharing!!
lovefoodies
says:Enjoy! It really is delicious! I’m addicted to those patties, and they are really filling too! It doesn’t seem much when you’re making them, but actually you get a full belly really quick, oh they are yum!!! Enjoy!
Joanne T Ferguson
says:G’day and big YUM! A TRUE comfort food for me!
I can’t wait to try this and it is on the list to do!
Cheers! Joanne
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lovefoodies
says:You will love it Joanne! It is one of my favourites now!! Really tasty :)
Bernice Barnes
says:I made this last night a really lovely meal my boys loved it, will be doing this again Bernice from London UK
lovefoodies
says:Hi Bernice, So glad you enjoyed it! I also have made this many times now, and it really is a lovely recipe!
Helene Sall
says:Hey, I’m from Denmark, and have never heard of this kind of variation to the Frikadeller. But this one sounds just so wonderful, that even I have to try it ;-)
lovefoodies
says:Hi Helene, I think the lady who’s recipe it was originally lived in the States, so maybe it is an adaptation from when she was in Denmark! Often that happens, but I guess you never forget your roots! Enjoy the recipe :)
Brenda Shaw Nelson
says:This sounds so wonderful, a must try. I’m collecting and converting all of my recipes to electronic too, then they are never lost and easily shared.
lovefoodies
says:That’s great to hear Brenda! Enjoy the recipe :)