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hey guys sadly this is Alex welcome back
to the meatball madness today i am in
sweden i am instakill and i'm here
obviously to learn everything there is
to learn about Swedish meatballs right
so this this is the place where we're
going to place the guy Niklas hey hey
nice to meet you it I'm Nicolas that I'm
a chef and restauranteur here in
Stockholm and we're in the very middle
of Stockholm in my restaurant we work
completely with old-style Nordic cooking
thing and then we have the plum but you
here we touch with hot iron things like
this this is from a smoker here so
completely fire based and we use almost
only birch only but yeah flavor the the
birch with different flavorings Oh this
current current blackout is music Asus
no I was just being fancy this impact
the flavor to the food like I say thank
you yeah yeah started working with these
techniques and learning about it and
there's so much to learn and I'm only 40
years old so and I only have 40 more
years maybe 50 years to do this and that
stresses me I wanted the cooking to be
very risky canned very old style but
then I wanted the experience in the
dining room to be more contemporary and
more restaurant this may be sit right
there so we can enjoy the last remaining
of light it's not gonna be my vitamin D
yes you have like Volvo Abba meatballs
mostly this thing there is a lot of
students say it was called the 12th ever
conquer king went turkey and brought
with him the recipe yeah I mean it's
very debated with the historians which
King actually brought it to Sweden but
in the recipe from from Turkey and and
then I'm guessing like even adapts it
becomes much it becomes Swedish people
are very conservative when it comes to
me nothing subject yes very touchy ever
be very bad to have me in the kitchen or
detention subject it's a little bit like
the Italians are towards tortellini yeah
so it's very bad yeah the lingonberries
always always always serve lingonberries
with me posted what are lingonberries
ilayya ploobis
yes my buddies know cloudberries yes so
they grow in the forest like cranberry
the meatball might be rich and creamy
and then you need a bit of exited let's
make them yeah good kitchen yeah I mean
amazing I've got everything set up for
Raya that's brilliant
two times beef one time pork one time
deal cream and breadcrumbs set for an
hour
one egg cooked onion add these to the
mixture as well yes so in Sweden if you
add a lot of cloves it's more Christmas
style Old Spice is common to use nutmeg
is also very common
do you always grind them yourself yes
that's the best always wooden spoon and
it's really important I'll show you
later wine so I'm not gonna ask any
question now no like nothing do it later
it's a cliffhanger
oh no more quicker like a machine I'm
guessing people do this with like a
stand mixer no mixer no electricity so
you really go for it yeah very difficult
to cook meatballs for Swedish people
because no matter how you do them gonna
be wrong no means no electricity and
like my mother's recipe or my
grandmother's recipe or so that's the
big difference between any other
meatballs and the Swedish meatballs it's
more like a pate like a but it
definitely be more different than an
Italian meatball they usually mix but
not to that extent
no you can feel the texture do it yeah
it's much more like a potato and then
yeah the classic meatball mixture that
I'm used to yeah the size that's the
size yeah it's gonna it's gonna shrink a
little bit yeah okay that's a nice way
to shape the meatballs because usually
at my place the way I would do this I
would I would shape them like this in
one hand it's just like it's right so
that's a very important point thank you
so much for that so how do you pronounce
this I say could pull up yeah well you
need to do a shot bula bola Vega
if I say should pull up to somebody
nobody's gonna understand what I'm
talking about these are the meatballs we
have made I mean I did most of the job
as you probably saw the most illegal at
once but it's a little irregular because
of course meatballs is the most
prefabricated thing in Swedish cooking I
mean I mean most households in Sweden
today don't make their own meat boats
they buy them frozen machine made in
their perfect shape yeah but if they did
a little dis saved a little irregular
you get my point
I did that on purpose yeah Stone Age
inducted again
so what about the heat yeah you go meet
them be pretty hard to control the heat
with fire
you have to listen and smell you have to
be human they don't have to be perfectly
round actually a Swedish meatball I'll
say a side they have a sign yeah oh wow
you're just finishing them with a bit of
butter yes everything tastes better with
the touch of butter yeah get some forks
and knives yeah maybe some beer oh yeah
oh yeah this man knows knows me already
be a few meatballs that's nice you want
to put the lingonberries on the plate
yes cucumber the gravy sauce it's funny
because when you cook them I thought
they were amazing then you fight them in
the butter I thought they were even more
amazing then then you added all this
gravy and then a beer it never ends no
they look amazing man okay let's talk
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is there any specific way to eat them
fry them first as they are yeah they're
super soft I'm just gonna go like this
first almost sweet not sweet but just
just the onions yeah yeah yeah the
camera onions right so white with this
the lingonberries every time I'm having
a bite I'm having a different emotion
hmm yeah Moe thank you so much for this
yeah nice having you in the house you
just added a bit of gravy on top it's
just a cream gravy so when you fry the
meatballs you're almost done you just
add a little bit of cream and so you're
getting all the meat juices or the
caramelized bits yeah everything that is
incorporated now this is how it's
supposed to be eaten
yeah eat it like if I carry a girl it's
okay it's lunch so it's so it's people's
food yeah I was expecting this to be
tasty and caramelized and are sweet and
salty and savory but this I did not
expect it may be because of the
lingonberries very acidic yeah Ruchi but
they have some just just a touch of
bitterness but yeah they really do and
that's amazing cause because that works
so well with the sweetness of the
meatball yeah what about the cook the
cucumber what are these
okay so they just then sliced cucumber
with some etiquette it's a Swedish
vinegar very strong vinegar that's
Sookie Wow because it's way too pounds
of Meatballs I'm gonna keep on it it's
too good
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thank you meant so much for this thank
you Alex it was amazing what's a
pleasure having you in the kitchen I
learned so much I feel like ya don't
know and yet there are some specifics
that really make them what they are they
are making them swedish right make them
Swedish thank you thank you so much
follow this man take care Lex yeah thank
you so much money see you all right see
you
I'm at the airport right now yeah those
Swedish meatballs where what not to say
good it's not good
it's finger-licking good the amazing
experience that I had is not only
related to food it's also related to the
fact that together with Niklas he also
cooked together there was a fireplace I
felt welcome in this place so at the end
of the day you get that amazing tasting
experience technique takeaway here's
what I've got first of all they soak
breadcrumbs not in milk operon grease
those meatballs were spicy not in the
sense of being much a slightly
Christmassy vibe
then then something that important
lingonberry on the side for us the
pickled cucumber they're part of the
dish you don't eat meatballs on their
own you need to have that balance base
because without them the whole dish will
just be suffering and caramelize and
rich and you need something to wake you
were now obviously I would love to go
back to Paris right now and cook some
Swedish rebo's but I feel like there's a
problem there's always a problem I'll
dip out with him in the recipe from
Turkey contracted culture
I didn't lie to you I say that was at
the airport but I didn't say which
airport I was at I'm now in Turkey this
is a cimmyt and some China
I'm here to understand everything there
is to understand about Turkish Kuster
wondered space wait I'm gonna pick a cab
in a few moments head to the city of
Istanbul here in Turkey have a after
once twice maybe three times maybe more
okay so we catch up in the next one bye
bye
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