Beef Stroganoff Recipes

Cooking beef stroganoff (crockpot and soup recipes)

Beef stroganoff was invented in 1890s by a chef working for Russian General Count Pavel Stroganov. This delicious dish gradually gained huge popularity in the western countries.

The original beef stroganoff is prepared with thin strips of beef which is cooked with mushrooms in a sour cream sauce. This can be served with various things like noodles, potato, rice etc. But often it happens that you do not have all the ingredients handy while making this dish.

This is the time when people use substitutes like yoghurt instead of sour cream and ground beef instead of beef strips. Mushrooms can be omitted in case you don't have any.

Traditional method of cooking beef stroganoff

Take a skillet with three table spoon full of butter and melt it in the pan. Then add the beef strips to it and cook till both sides of the strips become brown. Make sure the butter does not get burnt and add some pepper and salt to taste. After the beef is cooked keep them aside in a bowl.

Now cook some shallots in the same pot and allow it to absorb the drippings of the meat. Then keep them in the same bowl with the meat. Now in the same pot take some more butter and add the mushrooms to it. Cook them for 4 minutes with occasional stirring and after that add some sour cream to it.

Stir it properly to mix the cream well. Then put the meat and the shallots to it along with some more salt and pepper. Blend them well and serve warm with rice or noodles or anything you like.

Beef stroganoff crock pot recipes

There are quite a few ways to cook beef stroganoff in a crock pot or slow cooker. One of them is made with some flour and beef strips. First of all you need to rub the beef with some salt and flour. Then melt the butter in a pan and add some onion and the beef in it.

Cook them till the meat becomes brown. Now take a crock pot and add the garlic, ketchup, mushrooms beef broth in it. Then pour the cooked meat and onions in it and blend them gently.

Now you need to cover the pot and let it cook for about 8 hours. Then take the pan and add the sour cream to cook for another half an hour. This is normally served with cooked noodles.

Beef stroganoff soup

This is another interesting recipe made with beef stroganoff. Take some butter in a large pot and add the meat and some garlic. Cook till meat turns brown and then add some mushrooms to it. Saute it for sometime then add some carrots, beef base, pepper, salt and water to boil it for at least 15 minutes.

Then you can add some roux to it. Add some whipped cream and seasonings to taste. Add the sour cream after removing it from heat and serve hot.

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