Beef Stroganoff Recipe

An old fashioned ground Beef Stroganoff Recipe made with mushrooms, sour cream, chopped red onions, garlic, a little ketchup for flavor with noodles.

This makes a delicious, everyday frugal meal.

Serve this over cooked, buttered rice or mashed potatoes instead of the noodles called for in the recipe, if you prefer.

Included is a recipe for Sirloin Beef Stroganoff for times when you want a special meal for your family and guests.

Beef Stroganoff Recipe

• 1 lb. lean ground beef (sirloin is best)
  
  
• 3/4 cup red onions*, chopped
  
  
• 1 tablespoon butter
  
  
• 1 can (14.5) oz. beef broth
  
  
• 1/2 can (broth can) water
  
  
• 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
  
  
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
  
  
• 1 tablespoon ketchup
  
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
  
• 4 oz. canned mushroom slices or pieces
  
  
• 1/2 cup sour cream
  
  
• 8 oz. uncooked noodles
  
  
• 2 tablespoon butter for noodles (optional)
  

*Can substitute white onions.

Red onions are stronger and therefore give more flavor in addition to color to the dish.

Place meat, onions, and butter in a cold skillet.

Turn heat on medium.

Stir a few minutes until meat is browned and there is no longer any pink showing.

Add broth.

Stir flour into water until smooth and add to skillet.

Stir in garlic, ketchup, and salt.

Add mushrooms and stir.

Cover pan.

Reduce heat to low.

Simmer, stirring occasionally for 30-35 minutes until sauce is slightly thickened.

While sauce is cooking prepare noodles according to direction on package.

Drain and add butter, if desired.

Remove cover from sauce, stir in sour cream and bring to a boil.

Remove from heat and serve over the buttered Homemade Noodles Recipe.

Sirloin Beef Straganoff
Recipe

• 1 pound sirloin or round steak
  
  
  
• 2 tablespoons butter

• 2/3 cup water

• 1 can (3 oz.) broiled sliced mushrooms

• 1 envelope onion soup mix 

• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

• cooked and buttered noodles or rice

Cut sirloin or round steak into thin strips about 1/4 inch thick, 1-1/2 inches wide and 3 1/2 inch long.

Melt butter in skillet.

Add beef strips and pan fry turning over strips to until both sides are browned.

Takes about 3 minutes per side.

Add water and mushrooms including it's water.

Blend sour cream and flour and stir it in.

Cook and stir mixture until it thickens.

Serve over the hot noodles or rice. 

History Of Beef Strogonoff

A recipe for Beef Stroganof appeared in print  in Russia, 1871.

It was very frugal because it had no mushrooms or onions.

Of course that old recipe was not as tasty as today's evolved recipe.

The earliest printed Beef Stroganoff Recipe that Food Historians have found printed in American Cookbooks was one in 1934 and one in 1939.

Both contained Worcestershire sauce, sweet cream instead of sour cream and mushrooms.

Beef Stroganoff Recipe with mushrooms and sour cream, instead of sweet cream was printed in The Joy of Cooking, 1943 edition.

After World War II, Beef Stroganoff became the signature dish of 'gourmet' all over America.

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