How many calories in meatballs
Five beef and pork meatballs have about 300 kcal, about 60 each.
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To burn it off
Meatballs are minced beef and pork rolled with breadcrumbs, egg and onion, then fried or baked. Swedish ones with gravy and lingonberry, Italian ones in tomato sauce.
Five are 300 kcal, with 18 g of protein, 22 g of fat and 8 g of carbs. Easy to count, at 60 a ball.
What they come with is the bigger part: mash and gravy, a bowl of spaghetti or a sub roll. Count those on their own.
Tips
- 1Make them with lean mince or half turkey at home.
- 2Bake them instead of frying.
- 3Have them with veg or salad and a smaller portion of pasta or mash.
Where it comes from
In 2018 Sweden's official Twitter account said Swedish meatballs came from a recipe King Charles XII brought home from the Ottoman Empire in the early 1700s. Food historians disagreed: meatballs called frikadeller turn up in Swedish writing in 1650, long before his stay, and the word köttbullar appears around 1755. Meatballs are old in many countries, and nobody can be named as the inventor.
Where does our food come from? · Source: The Local Sweden, food historian Richard Tellström on köttbullar
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Questions
How many calories in one meatball?
About 60 kcal for an ordinary sized one.
How many calories in 10 meatballs?
About 600 kcal.
How much protein is in meatballs?
About 18 g in five.
How many calories in meatballs in tomato sauce?
A ladle of plain tomato sauce, about 100 g, adds roughly 50 kcal. Five meatballs in sauce come to about 350.
How many calories in meatballs with mash?
Five meatballs and a side portion of mash with butter and milk come to 510 kcal. A bit of gravy on top adds a little more.
