German
Koenigsberger Klopse (Meatballs in Caper Cream Sauce)
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Koenigsberger Klopse (Meatballs in Caper Cream Sauce) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the bread roll in the milk, squeeze it dry, then combine it with the ground pork and beef, onion, egg, anchovy, salt, and pepper, mixing gently until just combined.
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Shape the mixture into 12 meatballs.
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Bring the broth to a gentle simmer in a wide pot, lower in the meatballs, and poach for 12 to 15 minutes, until cooked through, then lift them out with a slotted spoon and set aside, reserving 2 cups of the poaching broth.
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Melt the butter in a saucepan, whisk in the flour, and cook for 1 minute, then gradually whisk in the reserved broth and simmer until smooth and thickened, about 5 minutes.
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Stir in the capers, cream, and lemon juice and simmer for 2 minutes more, then return the meatballs to the sauce to warm through.
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Serve the meatballs hot, ladled generously with the caper sauce.
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Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Koenigsberger Klopse (Meatballs in Caper Cream Sauce), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Koenigsberger Klopse (Meatballs in Caper Cream Sauce) carries dairy, gluten, eggs, and fish. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | Yes | Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 580 kcal
- Protein
- 31 g
- Carbs
- 15 g
- Fat
- 44 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 1290 mg
- Saturated fat
- 21 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Koenigsberger Klopse (Meatballs in Caper Cream Sauce) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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