Meat balls in curry sauce a la Arla

Meat balls in curry sauce known as "Boller i karry" is a classic Danish food, which also is referred to mormormad (Grand Ma´s food). Meat balls in curry has always been one of my favourite food, which I always pick, when available for example in the canteen at work.

As it has been some time since I last made "boller in karry" I decided to make this dish for my weekly Sunday dinner, which I serve for my mother. This time I used a recipe from Arla, where I made a few modification as I had more meat and too little dairy cream of 8% fat substituting the missing dairy cream with full-fat milk.


Boller i karry - meat balls in curry sauce a la Søndag: - 4 servings

• Meat balls:
• 450 g minced meat of veal and pork
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ onion - finely minced
• 1 egg
• 1 dl dairy cooking cream 8% fat
• ½ dl full-fat milk, 3½% fat
• 9 tablespoon of fine oat flakes
• pepper
• 1½ l water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Curry sauce
• 20 g butter
• ½-1 onion - finely minced
• 2 teaspoon of curry
• 1 little apple - grated
• 2½ tablespoon wheat flour
• 1½ dl dairy cooking cream with 8% fat
• salt & pepper for seasoning
• turmeric - optional
• rice
• red pepper - medium chopped
• cucumber - medium chopped
• salted roasted peanuts
• mango chutney 

1. Start by mixing the minced meat and salt together for 1 minute, which makes the meat texture more stiff in it. 
2. Afterwards mix in the minced onion, egg and pepper followed by the dairy cream and full-fat milk.
3. Add in the fine oat flakes and stir well.
4. Let the meat mixture rest for ½ hour in the refrigerator.
5. Bring a cooking pot full of water (with salt) into the boil.
6. Form the meat mass into smaller meat balls, which when is added into the boiling water. The meat balls are ready, when they pop up to the surface of the boiling water. Boiling time is around 8 minutes. Remove the meat balls from the water. Keep the boiling water for later use in the curry sauce.
7. Let the butter fry at high temperature in a cooking pan without turning brown.
8. Add in the minced onion and let it fry for approx. 1 minute.
9. Reduce the heat and add in the curry and let it fry for another 1 minute.
10. Add in the grated apple and let it fry for another 1 minute.
11. Sprinkle over the wheat flour and let it dissolve into mixture.
12. Add in 4 dl of the boiling water from the meat balls little by little, as you whip the mixture.
13. Afterwards add in the dairy cooking cream, and let the sauce simmer gentle for 5 minites.
14. Season with salt and pepper and adjust if need the colour with tumeric.
15. Add in the boiled meat balls and heat them up in the curry sauce
16. Serve the meat balls in curry together with boiled rice, chopped red pepper & cucumber, roasted peanuts and mango chutney.