Recipe of the day - Swedish Meatballs

I do love some Swedish meatballs!  I wanted to try a "new to me" recipe and found one I liked from Taste of Home.  I used premade meatballs due to issues of time, but here's the full recipe:

Swedish Meatballs
3/4 cup seasoned bread crumbs
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/3 cup minced fresh parsley
1 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
3/4 tsp salt
2 pounds ground beef
Gravy:
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1&1/2 cups 2% milk
2 cans (10.5 ounces each) condensed beef consomme, undiluted
1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp coarsely ground pepper
3/4 teaspoon salt

Combine first six ingredients.  Add beef; mix lightly but thoroughly.  Shape into 1.5 inch meatballs (about 36).  In a large skillet over medium heat, brown meatballs in batches.  Using a slotted spoon, remove to paper towels to drain, reserving drippings in pan.

For gravy, stir flour into drippings;  cook over medium-high heat until light brown (do not burn).  Gradually whisk in milk until smooth.  Stir in the consomme, Worcestershire sauce, pepper and salt.  Bring to a boil over medium-high heat;  cook and stir for 2 minutes until thickened. 

Reduce heat to medium-low;  return meatballs to pan.  Cook, uncovered, 15-20 minutes longer or until meatballs are cooked through, stirring occasionally.

Serve over noodles or rice.

*Now, when I used the premade meatballs, I obviously did not have any drippings left over to start the gravy.  I just used a half stick of butter and it worked out great.

Enjoy!