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🍽️ Classic Königsberger Meatballs with Potatoes

687 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 600 g firm-cooking potatoes
• salt
• 600 g veal mince
• 1 stale roll
• 2 onions
• 40 g butter
• 3 anchovy fillets (jar)
• 2 egg whites
• 0.5 untreated lemon
• pepper (from the mill)
• 0.5 tsp marjoram
• 1 l meat broth
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tsp allspice berries
• 3 tbsp flour
• 3 tbsp capers
• 1 tbsp mustard
• 200 ml whipping cream
• 1 egg yolk

Instructions

1. 1. Peel the potatoes.
2. 2. Cut the potatoes in half or quarters depending on their size.
3. 3. Cook the potatoes in salted water for about 25 minutes until tender.
4. 4. Soak the bread rolls in a little warm water.
5. 5. Peel the onions.
6. 6. Quarter one of the onions.
7. 7. Finely chop the other onion.
8. 8. Heat half of the butter in a pan.
9. 9. Sauté the chopped onion in the hot butter.
10. 10. Add the lemon zest to the onion.
11. 11. Add the minced meat.
12. 12. Add the finely chopped anchovy fillets.
13. 13. Add the egg white.
14. 14. Squeeze out the soaked bread and add it to the mixture.
15. 15. Season the mixture with pepper and marjoram.
16. 16. Wet your hands with water.
17. 17. Form small meatballs from the meat mixture.
18. 18. Bring the meat broth to a boil.
19. 19. Add the onion quarters, a bay leaf, and allspice berries to the broth.
20. 20. Let the meatballs simmer in the hot broth for about 15 minutes.
21. 21. Remove the cooked meatballs from the broth.
22. 22. Reserve the broth (liquid) for the sauce.
23. 23. Heat the remaining butter.
24. 24. Stir the flour into the hot butter and cook it briefly.
25. 25. Deglaze the butter-flour mixture with 500 ml of the reserved cooking liquid.
26. 26. Add the capers and mustard to the sauce.
27. 27. Pour the cream into the sauce.
28. 28. Simmer the sauce for about 10 minutes over low heat.
29. 29. Season the sauce with lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
30. 30. Remove the sauce from the heat.
31. 31. Stir the egg yolk into the warm sauce.
32. 32. Pour the finished sauce over the Königsberger meatballs.
33. 33. Serve the meatballs with the boiled potatoes.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 687
• Protein: 41 g · Fett/Fat: 39 g · Carbs: 43 g