Traditional German Meatballs with Caper Sauce - Königsberger Klopse Recipe
German meatballs with caper sauce is a very unusual and easy recipe. Königgsberger Klopse is a staple dish from the North that everybody in Germany knows. Unlike the traditional German meatballs, those small balls are cooked in the broth and served with delicious and creamy sweet-sour sauce with capers.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
For the meatballs
- 250 g minced beef
- 250 g minced pork
- 1 onion large
- 1 bread roll stale
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp bread crumbs
For the broth
- 1,5 l beef broth
- 1 onion
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 corns allspice
Sauce
- 3 tbsp flour all-purpose
- 3 tbsp butter
- 400 ml broth from the meatballs
- 125 ml cream
- 70 g capers drained
- 1 egg yolk
- salt
- pepper
- lemon juice
- sugar
Instructions
Prepare the meatballs
- Soak the bread roll in a cold water for 10 minutes.
- Peel and dice the onion.
- Squeeze the bread roll to remove excess water.
- In a mixing bowl combine meat, bread roll, and onion.
- And salt and pepper and correct seasoning.
- Add eggs and bread crumbs. Make sure that the mixture is not too sticky.
- Form around 36 small balls from the mixture. One ball should be made with 1 tbsp of mixture.
Cook the meatballs
- Peel and slice the onion.
- Bring the beef broth to boil.
- Add sliced onion, bay leaf and allspice to the broth as well as the meatballs. I use my slotted spoon for that. Before I leave them to cook for a while I am making sure that they don't stick to the bottom of the pot by stirring them.
- Let them simmer for 10 minutes. Turn off the heat, take out the bay leaf and allspice, and let them rest in the broth for another 10 minutes.
- Remove them from the broth and keep them warm in the pot or aluminium foil.
Prepare the sauce
- Preheat the sauce-pan to medium heat, add the butter and let it melt.
- Add the flour and let it simmer for 3 minutes.
- After the flour and butter combined add the broth at once and stir vigorously. Add cream and capers and turn off the heat.
- Season the sauce with a bit of lemon juice, sugar, salt and pepper. The sauce should have a sweet and sour taste.
Notes
The German meatballs - Königsberger Klopse go well with hard-boiled potatoes!