This Swedish gravy recipe for the Thermomix is rich, creamy and luxurious! It’s just like the IKEA meatball cream sauce. A savoury, cream sauce, perfect for accompanying your meat-free (or meat!) balls, nut (or meat) loaves, steaks, veggies, and more.

Last year when much of the world started spending periods of time confined to their homes, IKEA shared their recipe for their famous meatballs and gravy. This recipe is inspired by the sauce component of that recipe. You can find their full recipe here.

The reason for this Swedish gravy

The reason I am sharing this tweaked, Thermomixed version of this iconic Swedish gravy… While my latest book was coming together, we created the fabulous ‘Neatballs in Napoletana Sauce’ which is a rollable meat-free nut-based meatball. The Neatballs are baked in a lovely rich tomato sauce that is made quickly in the Thermomix.
One of our amazing recipe development team members, Leanne, trialled baking the Neatballs on a tray without the sauce. It worked so well! She then made my Easy Peasy Gravy (recipe in Super Sides Made Easy) and turned them in to Neatball subs, which she then raved about so much that I had to do the same shortly after and goodness me they were GOOD! Seriously, that gravy is amazing stuff!!

Leanne then decided a vego take on Swedish meatballs and gravy was needed and I agreed. So I made a couple of small changes to the Neatballs and wrote a recipe for the cream gravy...